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English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family. It emerged in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Britain after the end of Roman rule. English is the most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire and the United States. It is the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. However, English is only the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

West Germanic language native to Central Europe

Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula

Romance language

East Slavic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as ( "the eloquent Arabic") or simply '''' ().

language spoken in East Asia

Western Romance language

Esperanto () is the world's most widely spoken constructed auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 as "the International Language" (), it is intended to be a universal second language for international communication. He described the language in ''Dr. Esperanto's International Language'' (known as , the "first book"), which he published under the pseudonym . Early adopters of the language liked the name and soon used it to describe his language. The word translates into English as "one who hopes".

Western Iranian language

language group of the Sinitic languages

West Slavic language

Oghuz Turkic language of the Turkish people

East Slavic language

Modern Standard Hindi (), commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the government of India, and is the lingua franca for most of the northern half of India.

Urdu (, , ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also an official Eighth Schedule language in India, the status and cultural heritage of which are recognised by the Constitution of India — alongside having official status in several Indian states (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and both Telugu states).

language spoken in Korean Peninsula and some parts of North-eastern China

West Slavic language

Romance language

Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). Estimates of the number of Swahili speakers, including both native and second-language speakers, generally range from 150 million to 200 million. Most native speakers reside in Tanzania and Kenya.

Uralic language

Indo-Aryan language mostly spoken in Bangladesh and India

South Slavic language spoken in Croatia

North Germanic language spoken in Norway

Oghuz Turkic language

South Slavic language

official language of Indonesia

Baltic language spoken in Lithuania

West Slavic language spoken in Slovakia

Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka

Indo-European language, spoken primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro

language of the Basque people

Kartvelian language

standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian language used by Serbs

Tai language

South Slavic language spoken primarily in Slovenia

Turkic language in Central Asia, state language of Kazakhstan

Austronesian macrolanguage, basis for Malaysian Malay and Indonesian

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Interlingua (, ) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It is a constructed language of the "naturalistic" variety, whose vocabulary, grammar, and other characteristics are derived from natural languages. Interlingua literature maintains that (written) Interlingua is comprehensible to the billions of people who speak Romance languages, though it is actively spoken by only a few hundred.

South Slavic language mostly spoken in North Macedonia

language of Kurds

Semitic language spoken mostly in Malta

official language of Mongolia

Dravidian language native to South India

Turkic language spoken by Tatars

Pashto (, ; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan. It was also known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().

Turkic language

Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India

South Slavic language; a standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language

official language of Nepal

Goidelic Celtic language of Scotland

Celtic language spoken in France

major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China

Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amhara people, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other metropolitan populations in Ethiopia.

Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a second or third language for 15 million speakers in Karnataka. It is the official and administrative language of Karnataka. It also has scheduled status in India and has been included among the country's designated classical languages.

Indo-Aryan language

Austronesian language; native language of the Tagalog ethnic group

Romance language spoken in the Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden)

thumb|A Malayalam speaker, recorded in South Africa Malayalam (, ) is a Dravidian language, primarily spoken by the Malayali people, native to the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district). It is one of 22 scheduled languages, as well as one of 11 classical languages, of India. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé).