Index of language articles
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This is a partial index of Wikipedia articles treating natural languages, arranged alphabetically and with (sub-) families mentioned. The list also includes extinct languages.
For a published list of languages, see ISO 639-1 (list of ISO 639 language codes for 136 major languages), or for a more inclusive list, see ISO 639-3 (list of ISO 639-3 codes, 7,874 in total as of June 2013). The enumeration of languages and dialects can easily be taken into the five-digit range; the Linguasphere Observatory has a database (LS-2010) with more than 32,800 coded entries and more than 70,900 linguistic names.
List
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| :{{Legend|#00A6A6|Berber languages}} :{{Legend|#D7AEFF|Chadic languages}} :{{Legend|#DDDD00|Cushitic languages}} :{{Legend|#FF8040|Semitic languages}} {{Legend|#808040|Koreanic languages}} {{Legend|#008080|Japonic languages}} {{Legend|#00FF80|Mongolic languages}} {{Legend|#BB005E|Tungusic languages}} {{Legend|#808080|Turkic languages}} | {{Legend|#BFD891|Amerind languages (various families)}} {{Legend|#01A97B|Australian Aboriginal languages (various families)}} {{Legend|#FFBF9F|Austroasiatic languages}} {{Legend|#800000|Austronesian languages}} {{Legend|#FFFF00|Languages of the Caucasus (various families)}} {{Legend|#808000|Dravidian languages}} {{Legend|#6097EF|Eskimo–Aleut languages}} :{{Legend|#75FFFF|Albanian language}} :{{Legend|#04D596|Armenian language}} :{{Legend|#FF9DFF|Baltic languages}} :{{Legend|#00FF00|Celtic languages}} :{{Legend|#FF0000|Germanic languages}} :{{Legend|#753600|Hellenic languages}} :{{Legend|#0080FF|Indo-Aryan languages}} :{{Legend|#8000FF|Iranian languages}} :{{Legend|#0000FF|Romance languages}} :{{Legend|#00A800|Slavic languages}} | {{Legend|#C2F80C|Khoisan languages (various families)}} {{Legend|#007500|Niger–Congo languages}} {{Legend|#FFBFBF|Nilo-Saharan languages (possibly various families)}} {{Legend|#FF9D48|Paleosiberian languages (various families)}} {{Legend|#BF80FF|Papuan languages (various families)}} :{{Legend|#CECE00|Sinitic languages}} :{{Legend|#FF00FF|Tibeto-Burman languages}} {{Legend|#00B4B4|Kra–Dai languages}} {{Legend|#004040|Uralic languages}} {{Legend|#BA7072|Basque language}} |
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| Aari || Omotic languages
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| Abaza || Northwest Caucasian
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| Abenaki || Eastern Algonquian
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| Abkhaz or Abkhazian || Northwest Caucasian
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| Abujmaria or Madiya or Maria || Dravidian
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| Acehnese || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Adamorobe Sign Language || Language isolate
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| Adyghe or West Circassian || Northwest Caucasian
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|-
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| Afro-Seminole Creole || English-based creole
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| Ainu, Hokkaido || Ainu
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| Ainu, Kuril || Ainu
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| Ainu, Sakhalin || Ainu
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| Ajem-Turkic or Ajami Turkic || Turkic
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| Aka-Bea || Great Andamanese
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| Aka-Bo || Great Andamanese
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| Aka-Cari || Great Andamanese
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| Aka-Jeru || Great Andamanese
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| Aka-Kede || Great Andamanese
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| Aka-Kol || Great Andamanese
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| Aka-Kora || Great Andamanese
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| Akar-Bale || Great Andamanese
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| Albanian || Indo-European
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| Aleut || Eskimo–Aleut
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| Algonquin || Algonquian
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|-
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| Alyutor or Alutor || Chukotko-Kamchatkan
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| Alzenau German || Germanic
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| Amdang || Nilo-Saharan
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| American Sign Language || Francosign
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| Amuzgo || Oto-Manguean
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| Angami Naga Sign Language || Language isolate
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| Angika || Indo-Aryan
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| Ao || Tibeto-Burman
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| Aquitanian || Basque
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| Arabic, Algerian || Semitic
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| Arabic, Algerian Saharan || Semitic
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| Arabic, Anatolian || Semitic
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| Arabic, Andalusian or Andalusi Arabic || Semitic
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| Arabic, Bahrani || Semitic
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| Arabic, Bareqi || Semitic
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| Arabic, Bimbashi or Mongallese || Semitic
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| Arabic, Central Asian || Semitic
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| Arabic, Chadian || Semitic
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| Arabic, Classical || Semitic
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| Arabic, Cypriot || Semitic
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| Arabic, Dhofari || Semitic
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| Arabic, Egyptian || Semitic
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| Arabic, Gilit || Semitic
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| Arabic, Gulf || Semitic
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| Arabic, Hadhrami || Semitic
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| Arabic, Hassaniya || Semitic
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| Arabic, Hejazi || Semitic
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| Arabic, Jebli || Semitic
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| Arabic, Jijel || Semitic
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| Arabic, Juba or South Sudanese Arabic || Semitic
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| Arabic, Judeo-Iraqi or Yahudic || Semitic
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| Arabic, Judeo-Moroccan || Semitic
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| Arabic, Judeo-Tripolitanian || Semitic
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| Arabic, Judeo-Yemeni || Semitic
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| Arabic, Khuzestani || Semitic
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| Arabic, Levantine || Semitic
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| Arabic, Libyan || Semitic
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| Arabic, Maridi || Semitic
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| Arabic, Modern Standard || Semitic
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| Arabic, Moroccan || Semitic
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| Arabic, Nabataean || Semitic
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| Arabic, Najdi || Semitic
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| Arabic, Qeltu or North Mesopotamian Arabic || Semitic
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| Arabic, Northwest Arabian, Levantine Bedawi Arabic, or Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic || Semitic
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| Arabic, Nubi or Ki-Nubi || Semitic
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| Arabic, Omani || Semitic
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| Arabic, Sanʽani || Semitic
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| Arabic, Saʽidi || Semitic
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| Arabic, Shihhi || Semitic
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| Arabic, Shirvani || Semitic
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| Arabic, Sicilian or Siculo-Arabic || Semitic
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| Arabic, Sudanese || Semitic
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| Arabic, Taʽizzi-Adeni or Southern Yemeni Arabic || Semitic
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| Arabic, Tihamiyya || Semitic
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| Arabic, Tunisian || Semitic
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| Are || Malayo-Polynesian
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| ꞋAreꞌare || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Armenian || Indo-European
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| Armenian, Eastern || Armenian
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| Armenian, Western || Armenian
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| Arvanitika or Arvanitic || Albanian
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| Ashkun || Indo-Iranian
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| Assamese || Indo-Iranian
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| Ashokan Prakrit || Indo-Aryan
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| Asi || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Asturleonese || Romance
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| Atong Language|| Tibeto-Burman
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| Austro-Bavarian || Germanic
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| Avar || Northeast Caucasian
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| Awadhi || Indo-Iranian
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| Azerbaijani or Azeri || Turkic
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| Babuza || Western Plains Formosan
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| Badeshi || Indo-Iranian
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| Baekje || Unclassified language, perhaps Koreanic, Puyŏ, and/or Han
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| Bahnar || Austroasiatic
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| Bailang || Lolo-Burmese
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| Balinese || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Balochi || Indo-Iranian
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| Balti || Tibeto-Burman
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| Bambara or Bamanankan || Mande
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| Banjar || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Banyumasan || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Barranquenho or Barranquenhu || Alentejan Portuguese, Extremaduran Spanish, and Andalusian Spanish-based mixed language
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| Basay || East Formosan
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| Ba–Shu Chinese || Sinitic
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| Basque or Euskara/Euskera || Language isolate
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| Batak Karo || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Batak Toba || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Bats || North Caucasian
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| Bawean and Bawean Creole || Madurese
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| Belarusian || Slavic
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| Belhare || Tibeto-Burman
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| Berta || Nilo-Saharan
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| Bengali || Indo-Aryan
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| Bezhta || Northeast Caucasian
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| Berber || Afroasiatic
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| Betawi || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Bete || Niger–Congo
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| Bété || Niger–Congo
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| Bhili || Indo-Aryan
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| Bhojpuri || Indo-Aryan
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| Bijil Neo-Aramaic || Semitic
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| Bikol || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Blackfoot || Algonquian
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| Bodo || Sino-Tibetan
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| Boholano || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Bohtan Neo-Aramaic || Semitic
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| British Sign Language || BANZSL
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| Bru || Austroasiatic
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| Bua || Niger–Congo
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| Buginese || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Burmese || Tibeto-Burman
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| Burushaski || Language isolate
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| Caluyanon or Caluyanun || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Canaano-Akkadian || Akkadian and Canaanite-based mixed language
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| Cape Verdean Creole or Kabuverdianu || Portuguese-based creole
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| Carrier or Dakelh || Athabaskan
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| Catalan Sign Language || Catalan Sign
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| Cebuano || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Chabacano or Chavacano || Creole (Spanish-based)
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| Chakma || Indo-Aryan
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| Chamorro or Chamoru || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Chaouia or Tachawit || Berber
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| Chatino || Oto-Manguean
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| Chechen || Northeast Caucasian
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| Cheyenne || Algonquian
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| Chhattisgarhi || Indo-Aryan
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| Chichimeca Jonaz || Oto-Manguean
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| Chintang or Chhintang || Kiranti
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| Chilcotin or Tsilhqot'in || Athabaskan
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| Chinantec || Oto-Manguean
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| Chinese Kyakala || Tungusic
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| Chiricahua or Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache || Athabaskan
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| Chimané or Tsimané or Mosetén || Language isolate
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| Chipaya || Uru-Chipaya
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| Chipewyan || Athabaskan
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| Chiquimulilla || Xincan
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| Chiquitano || Language isolate
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| Chittagonian || Indo-Aryan
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| Chocho or Chocholtec || Oto-Manguean
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| Chontal de Oaxaca || Tequistlatecan
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| Chontal de Tabasco || Mayan
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| Chorasmian or Khwarezmian || Iranian
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| Christian Palestinian Aramaic || Semitic
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| Chukchi or Chukot || Chukotko-Kamchatkan
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| Church Slavonic || Slavic
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| Chuukese or Trukese || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Cochin Portuguese Creole or Vypin Indo-Portuguese || Portuguese-based creole language
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| Cocopah || Yuman-Cochimí
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| Coeur d’Alene || Salishan
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| Comanche || Uto-Aztecan
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| Cora || Uto-Aztecan
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| Cree || Algonquian
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| Cree, East or James Bay Cree || Algonquian
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| Cree, Moose || Algonquian
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| Cree, Plains || Algonquian
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| Cree, Swampy || Algonquian
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| Cree, Woods or Woodland Cree || Algonquian
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| Crimean Tatar or Crimean Turkish || Turkic
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| Cuicatec || Oto-Manguean
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| Cuyonon || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Dagaare || Niger-Congo
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| Dalecarlian || Germanic
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| Dameli || Indo-Aryan
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| Dargin || Northeast Caucasian
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| Dari or Dari Persian || Iranian
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| Dena'ina or Tanaina || Athapaskan
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| Dhatki || Indo-Aryan
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| Dhivehi or Maldivian || Indo-Aryan
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| Dicamay Agta || Northern Luzon
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| Dogri || Indo-Aryan
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| Dogrib or Tli Cho || Athapaskan
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| Domaaki or Dumaki || Indo-Aryan
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| Dongxiang or Santa || Mongolic
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| Dura || Greater Magaric
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| Dzhidi or Judeo-Persian || Iranian
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| Egyptian || Afroasiatic
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| Elamite
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| Enets or Yenisey Samoyed || Samoyedic
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| Ewe || Volta–Niger
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| Extremaduran || Romance
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| Faetar or Faetar–Cigliàje || Romance
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| Faliscan || Latino-Faliscan
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| Favorlang || Western Plains Formosan
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| Fijian || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Filipino || Central Philippine
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| Finland-Swedish Sign Language || Swedish Sign
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| Finnish Sign Language || Swedish Sign
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| Flemish, East || Germanic
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| Flemish, French || Germanic
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| Flemish, West || Germanic
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| Franco-Provençal or Arpitan || Romance
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| French Sign Language || Francosign
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| Frisian, East || Germanic
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| Frisian, Hindeloopen || Germanic
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| Frisian, North || Germanic
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| Frisian, Saterland || Germanic
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| Frisian, Schiermonnikoog || Germanic
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| Frisian, Terschelling || Germanic
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| Frisian, West or Mainland West Frisian|| Germanic
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| Fula, Fulfulde, or Fulani || Senegambian
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| Fur || Nilo-Saharan
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| Futunan || Polynesian
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| Futuna-Aniwa || Polynesian
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| Gan Chinese || Sinitic
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| Garhwali || Indo-Aryan
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| Gawar-Bati or Gowari or Narsati || Indo-Aryan
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| Gaya || Unclassified language
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| Gayo || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Gelao || Kra–Dai languages
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| Gen or Gẽ or Mina || Volta–Niger
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| Georgian || South Caucasian
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| German Sign Language || DGSic
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| Gilbertese or Kiribati || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Gitxsan || Tsimshianic
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| Goaria || Indo-Aryan
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| Gorani language (Našinski) || Slavic
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| Gorani or Hawrami || Kurdish
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| Greenlandic or Kalaallisut || Eskaleut
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| Greenlandic Norse || Germanic
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| Greek, Aeolic || Hellenic
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| Greek, Apulian or Griko || Hellenic
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| Greek, Ancient Macedonian || Hellenic
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| Greek, Arcadocypriot || Hellenic
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| Greek, Attic || Hellenic
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| Greek, Byzantine or Medieval Greek || Hellenic
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| Greek, Calabrian || Hellenic
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| Greek, Cappadocian || Hellenic
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| Greek, Cypriot || Hellenic
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| Greek, Doric or West Greek || Hellenic
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| Greek, Homeric or Epic Greek || Hellenic
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| Greek, Ionic || Hellenic
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| Greek, Italiot || Hellenic
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| Greek, Jewish Koine || Hellenic
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| Greek, Koine || Hellenic
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| Greek, Mariupolitan or Crimean Greek || Hellenic
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| Greek, Mycenaean || Hellenic
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| Greek, Pamphylian || Hellenic
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| Greek, Pontic || Hellenic
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| Greek, Romani || Hellenic
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| Greek, Tsakonian || Hellenic
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| Greek, Yevanic || Hellenic
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| Guazacapán || Xincan
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| Guinea-Bissau Creole || Portuguese-based creole
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| Gujarati || Indo-Aryan
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| Gula Iro or Kulaal || Adamawa
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| Gullah or Sea Island Creole English || English-based creole
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| Gwichʼin || Athabaskan
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| Hachijō or shima kotoba || Japonic
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| Hadramautic || Semitic
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| Hadza or Hatsa || Language isolate
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| Haida or Masset || Language isolate or Na-Dené
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| Haitian Creole || French-based creole
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| Hän || Athabaskan
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| Hani || Lolo-Burmese
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| Harappan || Unclassified language
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| Harauti || Indo-Aryan
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| Haryanavi || Indo-Aryan
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| Hattic || Unclassified language
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| Havasupai or Upland Yuman || Hokan
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| Hawaiian || Polynesian
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| Hawaiʻi Sign Language || Language isolate or small language family
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| Hebrew, Ashkenazi || Semitic
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| Hebrew, Biblical || Semitic
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| Hebrew, Italian || Semitic
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| Hebrew, Medieval || Semitic
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| Hebrew, Mishnaic || Semitic
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| Hebrew, Mizrahi || Semitic
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| Hebrew, Modern || Semitic
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| Hebrew, Samaritan || Semitic
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| Hebrew, Sephardi || Semitic
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| Hebrew, Tiberian || Semitic
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| Hebrew, Yemenite || Semitic
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| Hiligaynon || Bisayan
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| Himyaritic || Semitic
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| Hindi || Indo-Aryan
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| Hindustani || Indo-Aryan)
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| Hinukh || Northeast Caucasian
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| Hiri Motu || Motu-based pidgin
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| Hixkaryana || Cariban
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| Hmong || Hmong–Mien
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| Hmu || Hmong-Mien
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| Ho || Austroasiatic
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| Hopi || Uto-Aztecan
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| Hoti || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Huave || Language isolate
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| Huiliche || Araucanian
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| Hunnic || Unclassified language
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| Hutterisch or Tirolean || Germanic
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| Hwa Miao || Hmongic languages
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| Ibibio || Cross River
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| Ibanag || Northern Luzon
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| Igbo or Ibo or Biafra || Igboid
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| Ikalanga or Kalanga || Bantu
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| Illyrian || Indo-European
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| Ilokano or Ilocano || Northern Luzon
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| Inabaknon Language|| Austonesian Languages
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| Indonesian || Malayic
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| Indo-Portuguese Creole of Bombay || Portuguese-based creole language
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| Ingrian or Izhorian || Uralic
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| Ingush || Northeast Caucasian
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| Inuktitut || Eskimo–Aleut
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| Inupiaq || Eskimo–Aleut
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| Inuvialuktun || Eskimo–Aleut
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| Irish or Irish Gaelic || Celtic
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| Irish Sign Language || Francosign
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| Isan or Northeastern Thai || Kra–Dai
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| Ishkashimi or Ishkashmi || Iranian
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| Istro-Romanian || Romance
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| Jacaltek, Jakalteko or Popti' || Mayan
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| Jalaa || Unclassified language, possibly Niger–Congo
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| Japhug || Sino-Tibetan
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| Jarai || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Javanese || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Jewish Babylonian Aramaic || Aramaic
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| Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho || Semitic
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| Jibbali or Shehri || Semitic
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| Jicarilla || Athabaskan
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| Juang || Austroasiatic
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| Judeo-Georgian || South Caucasian
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| Jumaytepeque || Xincan
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| Kabardian || Northwest Caucasian
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| Kachin or Jingpo || Tibeto-Burman
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| Kalami or Gawri or Dirwali || Indo-Aryan
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| Kalahsa-mun || Indo-Aryan
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| Kalto or Nahali || Indo-Aryan
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| Kamchadal, Eastern || Khukotko-Kamchatkan
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| Kamchadal, Southern || Khukotko-Kamchatkan
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| Kamchadal, Western or Itelmen || Chukotko-Kamchatkan
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| Kamtapuri or Rangpuri or Rajbongshi || Indo-Aryan
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| Kankanaey || Northern Luzon
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| Kaonde or Chikaonde || Bantu
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| Kapampangan || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Karachay–Balkar || Turkic
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| Karakalpak || Turkic
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| Karen || Tibeto-Burman
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| Kashmiri || Indo-Aryan
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| Kasiguranin or Casiguran || Central Philippine
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| Kawésqar or Alacaluf || Language isolate
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| Kerek || Chukotko-Kamchatkan
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| Keres or Keresan || Language isolate or small language family
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| Kham or Sheshi || Tibeto-Burman
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| Khandeshi || Indo-Aryan
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| Khasi || Austroasiatic
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| Khmer || Austroasiatic
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| Khmu || Austroasiatic
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| Khowar || Indo-Aryan
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| Kimatuumbi || Bantu
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| Kinaray-a or Hiraya || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Kinyarwanda || Bantu
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| Klallam or Clallam || Salishan
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| Koasati or Coushatta || Muskogean
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| Kodava Takk or Kodagu or Coorgi || Dravidian
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| Kohistani or Khili || Indo-Aryan
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| Komi or Komi-Zyrian || Uralic
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| Konkani || Indo-Aryan
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| Korandje || Nilo-Saharan
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| Korku || Austroasiatic
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| Korowai || Trans–New Guinea
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| Korwa || Austroasiatic
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| Koryak || Chukotko-Kamchatkan
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| Kosraean || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Koyra Chiini or Western Songhay || Nilo-Saharan
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| Koy Sanjaq Christian Neo-Aramaic || Semitic
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| Krymchak or Judeo-Crimean Tatar || Turkic
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| Kujarge || Unclassified language, perhaps Chadic
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| Kumauni || Indo-Aryan
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| Kumeyaay or Kumiai || Yuma-Cochimí (Hokan?)
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| Kurukh or Kurux || Dravidian
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| Kusunda || Language isolate
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| Kutenai or Kootenay or Ktunaxa || Language isolate
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| Kuy || Austroasiatic
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| Laal || Unclassified language
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| Ladakhi || Tibeto-Burman
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| Ladino or Judeo-Spanish || Romance
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| Lak || Northeast Caucasian
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| Lakota or Lakhota or Teton || Siouan
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| Lambadi or Lamani or Banjari || Indo-Aryan
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| Lanuvian || Latino-Faliscan
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| Latin || Latino-Faliscan
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| Laz or Lazuri || South Caucasian
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| Lenca, Honduran || Lencan
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| Lenca, Salvadoran || Lencan
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| Lezgi or Agul || Northeast Caucasian
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| Limburgish || Germanic
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| Lipan || Athabascan
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| Lisan al-Dawat || Indo-Aryan
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| Lishanid Noshan or Lishana Didan || Semitic
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| Lithuanian || Baltic
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| Livvi-Karelian, Olonets Karelian, or Livvi || Uralic
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| Lotha || Tibeto-Burman
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| Low German || Germanic
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| Lower Sorbian || Slavic
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| Lushootseed || Salishan
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| Luwati || Indo-Iranian
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| Luxembourgish || Germanic
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| Macedonian || Slavic
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| Machiguenga || Arawakan
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| Madí or Jamamadí or Kapaná || Arauan
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| Madurese || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Magadhi || Indo-Aryan
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| Maguindanao || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Maithili || Indo-Aryan
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| Makasar || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Makhuwa-Meetto || Bantu
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| Malagasy || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Malay, Brunei || Malayic
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| Malaysian Sign Language || Francosign
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| Maltese or Maltese Arabic || Semitic
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| Malto or Sauria Paharia || Dravidian
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| Malvi, Malavi, or Ujjaini || Indo-Aryan
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|-
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| Māori || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Mapudungun or Mapuche || Araucanian
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| Maranao || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Marathi || Indo-Aryan
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| Marquesan || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Marshallese or Ebon || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Martha's Vineyard Sign Language || Language isolate
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| Masbatenyo or Minasbate || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Meitei or Manipuri or Meithei || Tibeto-Burman
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| Mauritian Creole or Morisyen || French-based creole
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| Mayan Sign Language || Language isolate or small language family
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| Mayo || Uto-Aztecan
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| Mazandarani or Tabari || Iranian
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| Mazahua || Oto-Manguean
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| Mazatec || Oto-Manguean
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| Meänkieli or Tornedalian Finnish || Uralic
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| Megleno-Romanian || Romance
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| Megrelian or Mingrelian || South Caucasian
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| Menominee || Algonquian
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| Mentawai || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Meroitic || Unclassified language, maybe Nilo-Saharan or Language isolate
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| Mescalero || Athabaskan
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| Michif || Métis French and Plains Cree-based mixed language
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| Mikasuki or Miccosukee || Muskogean
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| Mi'kmaq or Micmac || Algonquian
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| Minangkabau || Malayo-Polynesian
|-
|-
| Miskito or Miskitu || Misumalpan
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| Mnong or M'Nong || Austroasiatic
|-
| Mobilian Jargon || Choctaw and French-based pidgin
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| Mon || Austroasiatic
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| Middle Mongol || Mongolic
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| Mongolian, Classical || Mongolic
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| Mono || Uto-Aztecan
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| Mono || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Montagnais or Innu || Algonquian
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| Montenegrin || Slavic
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| Motu || Papuan Tip
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| Mundari || Austroasiatic
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| Muong || Austroasiatic
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| Muscogee or Creek || Muskogean
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| Nahuatl || Uto-Aztecan
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| Nauruan || Micronesian
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| Ndau or Southeast Shona || Bantu
|-
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| Neapolitan || Romance
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| Nenets or Yurak || Samoyedic
|-
| Nepal Bhasa or Newari || Newaric
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| Nepali || Indo-Aryan
|-
| New Zealand Sign Language || BANZSL
|-
| Nihali or Nahali || Language isolate
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| Nisga'a || Tsimshianic
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| Nganasan or Tavgi || Samoyedic
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| Nheengatu or Geral or Modern Tupí || Tupian
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| Nias || Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands
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| Nicaraguan Sign Language || Language isolate
|-
|-
| Nigerian Pidgin || English-based pidgin
|-
|-
| Niuean or Niue || Polynesian
|-
| Nivkh or Gilyak || Language isolate
|-
|-
| Norfuk or Norfolk || cant, English-Tahitian based
|-
| Norman or Norman-French || Romance
|-
|-
| Northern Ndebele || Bantu
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| Northern Paiute || Uto-Aztecan
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| Northern Sotho or Sepedi || Bantu
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| Northern Straits Salish || Salishan
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| Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk, Riksmål) || Germanic
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| Northeast Malakula || Central Vanuatu
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| Nuxálk or Bella Coola || Salishan
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| Nyah Kur || Austroasiatic
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| Nyangumarta || Pama–Nyungan
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| Occitan or Provençal || Romance
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| Odia || Indo-Aryan
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| Ojibwe, Ojibwa, or Chippewa || Algonquian
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| Oko-Juwoi || Great Andamanese
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| Ongota || Afroasiatic
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| O'odham || Uto-Aztecan
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| Oromo or Afaan Oromoo || Cushitic
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| Ossetic or Ossetian || Iranian
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| Páez or Nasa Yuwe || Language isolate
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| Palauan || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Pame || Oto-Manguean
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| Pangasinan || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Papiamento or Papiamentu || Iberian Romance-based creole
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| Parya || Indo-Aryan
|-
| Pashto, Pushto, or Pashtu || Iranian
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| Peninsular Japonic || Japonic
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| Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania German || Germanic
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| Persian or farsi, as it is referred to in the Persian language || Iranian
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| Phalura || Indo-Aryan
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| Phoenician || Semitic
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| Pipil or Nawat || Uto-Aztecan
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| Plautdietsch or Mennonite Low German || Germanic
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| Podlachian or Podlashuk || Slavic
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| Popoloca || Oto-Manguean
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| Portuguese || Romance
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| Pothohari or Pahari-Potwari || Indo-Aryan
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| Pradhan or Pardhan || Dravidian
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| Praenestinian || Latino-Faliscan
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| Puelche || Language isolate or Chonan
|-
| Puma || Tibeto-Burman
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| Punic, Phoenicio-Punic, or Carthaginian || Semitic
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| Punjabi, Panjabi, or Gurmukhi || Indo-Aryan
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| Purépecha or Tarascan ||Language isolate
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| Q'anjob'al || Mayan
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| Qashqai or Ghashghai || Turkic
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| Qatabanian || Semitic
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| Quebec Sign Language || Francosign
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| Rajasthani || Indo-Aryan
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| Ratagnon, Datagnon, or Latagnun || Bisayan
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| Réunion Creole or Bourbonnais || French-based creole
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| Rijāl Almaʿ || Semitic
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| Romani || Indo-Aryan
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| Romblomanon || Bisayan
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| Rotokas || East Papuan
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| Rotuman || Central Pacific
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| Runyankole language or Nyankore || Bantu
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| Russian Sign Language || Francosign
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| Rusyn, Carpathian || Slavic
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| Rusyn, Pannonian || Slavic
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| Rutul || Northeast Caucasian languages
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| Sabaic or Sabaean || Semitic
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| Samaritan Aramaic || Semitic
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| Samoan || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Sandawe || Language isolate
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| Sango || Ngbandi-based creole
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| Sanskrit || Indo-Aryan, liturgical language
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| Santali || Austroasiatic
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| Sara Bakati' || Land Dayak
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| Saraiki, Seraiki, or Siraiki Southern Punjabi || Indo-Aryan
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| Saramaccan || English-based creole
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| Sardinian, Campidanese || Romance
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| Sardinian, Logudorese || Romance
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| Sart Kalmyk || Mongolic
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| Saurashtra or Sourashtra || Indo-Aryan
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| Savi || Indo-Aryan
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| Sawai || South Halmahera–West New Guinea
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| Scots, Shetlandic or Shaetlan || Germanic
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| Scots, Ulster || Germanic
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| Scottish Gaelic or Scots Gaelic or Gaidhlig or Gaelic || Celtic
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| Selangor Sign Language || Francosign
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| Selkup or Ostyak Samoyed || Samoyedic
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| Serbo-Croatian || Slavic
|-
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| Seychellois Creole || French-based creole
|-
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| Shelta || Irish and Irish English-based mixed language
|-
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| Shina || Indo-Aryan
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| Shipibo or Shipibo-Konibo || Panoan
|-
|-
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| Shoshoni or Shoshone || Uto-Aztecan
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| Shtokavian || Slavic
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| Shumashti || Indo-Aryan
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| Shuswap or Secwepemctsín || Salishan
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| Siberian Tatar || Turkic
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| Sierra Popoluca or Soteapanec || Mixe–Zoque
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| Sika || Flores–Lembata
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| Silla or Old Korean || Koreanic
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| Silt'e or Selti or East Gurage || Semitic
|-
| Sinacantán || Xincan
|-
| Sindhi || Indo-Aryan
|-
| Sinhala || Indo-Aryan
|-
|-
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| Sámi, Akkala || Uralic
|-
| Sámi, Inari || Uralic
|-
| Sámi, Kainuu || Uralic
|-
| Sámi, Kemi || Uralic
|-
| Sámi, Kildin || Uralic
|-
| Sámi, Lule || Uralic
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| Sámi, Northern || Uralic
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| Sámi, Pite || Uralic
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| Sámi, Skolt || Uralic
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| Sámi, Southern || Uralic
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| Sentinelese || Unclassified language
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| Slavey || Athabaskan
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| Slavomolisano || Slavic
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| Slovene or Slovenian || Slavic
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|-
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| Sonsorolese or Sonsorol || Micronesian
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| Sora || Austroasiatic
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| Sorbian, Lower || Slavic
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| Sorbian, Upper || Slavic
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| Sourashtra || Indo-Aryan
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| Southern Ndebele || Bantu
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| South Estonian || Uralic
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| Spanish, Amazonic || Romance
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| Spanish, Andalusian || Romance
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| Spanish, Canarian || Romance
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| Spanish, Caribbean || Romance
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| Spanish, Castilian || Romance
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| Spanish, Catalan || Romance
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| Spanish, Chilote || Romance
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| Spanish, Extremaduran or Castúo || Romance
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| Spanish, Galician or Castrapo || Romance
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| Spanish, Gibraltarian or Llanito || Romance
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| Spanish, Mexican || Romance
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| Spanish, Murcian || Romance
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| Spanish, Peninsular || Romance
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| Spanish, Sabine River, Adaeseño Spanish, or Zwolle-Ebarb Spanish || Romance
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| Spanish, Saharan or Western Saharan Spanish || Romance
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| Spanish, Standard || Romance
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| Sranan Tongo || English-based creole
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| St'at'imcets or Lillooet || Salishan
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| Sucite or Sìcìté Sénoufo || Senufo
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| Sundanese || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Supyire or Supyire Senoufo || Senufo
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| Sureth (Assyrian) || Semitic
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| Surigaonon || Bisayan
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| Svan || South Caucasian
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| Swati, Swazi, Siswati, or Seswati || Bantu
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| Tabasaran or Tabassaran || Northeast Caucasian
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| Tagalog || Central Philippine
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| Tahitian || Polynesian
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| Taiwanese Sign Language || JSLic
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| Tanacross || Athabaskan
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| Tangut || Tibeto-Burman
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| Taos or Northern Tiwa || Tanoan
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| Tarahumara || Uto-Aztecan
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| Tarifit or Rifi or Riff Berber || Berber
|-
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| Taymanitic || Semitic
|-
| Tehuelche or Aonikenk || Chon
|-
|-
| Tetum || Malayo-Polynesian
|-
|-
| Tepehuán or O'otham || Uto-Aztecan
|-
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| Tharu || Indo-Aryan
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| Tibetan, Lhasa || Tibetic
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| Ticuna || Language isolate
|-
|-
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| Timbisha or Panamint || Uto-Aztecan
|-
|-
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| Tobian || Micronesian
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| Tojolab'al || Mayan
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| Tok Pisin || English-based creole
|-
| Tokelauan || Polynesian
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| Tongan || Polynesian
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| Torwali or Turvali || Indo-Aryan
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| Tregami || Indo-Aryan
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| Trique or Triqui || Oto-Manguean
|-
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| Tsez or Dido || Northeast Caucasian
|-
| Tshiluba, Luba-Kasai, or Luba-Lulua || Bantu
|-
| Tsimshian, Coast || Tsimshianic
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| Tsimshian, Southern || Tsimshianic
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| Tuareg languages or Tamasheq || Berber
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|-
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| Tupiniquim || Tupian
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| Turkish, Ottoman || Turkic
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| Tuvaluan || Polynesian
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| Tuvan Tuvin or Tyvan || Turkic
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| Udihe or Ude or Udege || Tungusic
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| Ulada || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Unserdeutsch or Rabaul Creole German || German-based creole
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| Upper Sorbian || Slavic
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| Urdu || Indo-Aryan
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| Ute || Uto-Aztecan
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| Valencian Sign Language || Catalan Sign
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| Vasi-vari or Prasuni || Indo-Aryan
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| Vietnamese || Austroasiatic
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| Wa || Austroasiatic
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| Wagiman || Language isolate
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| Waigali or Kalasha-Ala || Indo-Aryan
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| Waima or Roro || Malayo-Polynesian
|-
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| Wallisian or East Uvean || Polynesian
|-
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| Waray or Binisaya || Malayo-Polynesian
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| Washo || Language isolate
|-
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| Western Neo-Aramaic || Semitic
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| West Polesian or Poleshuk || Slavic
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| Wolane (Silt'e) || Semitic
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| Wolof || Niger–Congo
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| Yaaku || Afroasiatic
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| Yaghan or Yámana || Language isolate
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| Yankunytjatjara || Pama–Nyungan
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| Yanyuwa || Pama–Nyungan
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| Yapese || Malayo-Polynesian
|-
| Yaqui || Uto-Aztecan
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| Yazgulyam or Yazgulami || Iranian
|-
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| Yeni || Niger–Congo
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| Yi language or Nuosu || Tibeto-Burman
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| Yugur, Eastern || Mongolic
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| Yugur, Western or Neo-Uygur || Turkic
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| Yokuts, Yokutsan, or Mariposa || Yokutsan
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| Yokuts, Buena Vista || Yokutsan
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| Yokuts, Delta || Yokutsan
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| Yokuts, Palewyami || Yokutsan
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| Yokuts, Tule–Kaweah || Yokutsan
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| Yokuts, Valley || Yokutsan
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| Yorùbá || Volta–Niger
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| Yucatec Maya || Yucatecan
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| Yuchi || Language isolate
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| Yukaghir, Northern or Tundra Yukaghir || Yukaghir
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| Yukaghir, Southern or Forest Yukaghir || Yukaghir
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| Yupik || Eskimo–Aleut
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| Yupiltepeque || Xincan
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| Zapotec || Oto-Manguean
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| Zoque || Mixe–Zoquean
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| Zoroastrian Dari || Iranian
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| Zuñi or Zuni || Language isolate
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