Language articles citing Ethnologue 28

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 '''' ().

Western Romance language

Western Iranian language

language group of the Sinitic languages

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.

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

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).

West Slavic language

Indo-Aryan language mostly spoken in Bangladesh and India

South Slavic language spoken in Croatia

South Slavic language

official language of Indonesia

Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka

standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian language used by Serbs

Tai language

Austroasiatic language originating in Vietnam

Austronesian macrolanguage, basis for Malaysian Malay and Indonesian

South Slavic language mostly spoken in North Macedonia

language of Kurds

official language of Mongolia

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

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

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.

Austronesian language; native language of the Tagalog ethnic group

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).

language spoken in Tajikistan

Oghuz Turkic language of Central Asia

language group containing Arabic and Hebrew

Austroasiatic language of Cambodia

Indo-Aryan language spoken in Assam, India

Chadic language native to the Hausa people

large language family mostly of Southeast Asia and the Pacific

Indo-Aryan language native to Sri Lanka

Dari, also known as Farsi Dari, Dari Persian, Eastern Persian, or Afghan Persian, is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan government's official term for the Persian language; it is known as Afghan Persian or Eastern Persian in many Western sources. The decision to rename the local variety of Persian in 1964 was more political than linguistic to support an Afghan state narrative. Dari Persian is most closely related to Tajiki Persian as spoken in Tajikistan and the two share many phonological and lexical similarities. Apart from a few basics of vocabular

Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea

Niger–Congo language of the Igbo people, mainly spoken in Nigeria

Indo-Aryan national language of the Maldives

Niger-Congo language spoken in West Africa

language of Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania

Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and Nepal

Indo-Aryan language spoken in India

Sino-Tibetan language

Bantu language of Zimbabwe and Mozambique

Arabic dialect spoken in Egypt

Northwestern Iranian language spoken mainly in Iran's Mazandaran, Golestan, Gilan, Semnan, Tehran, Alborz and Qazvin provinces

branch of the Min Chinese language

Saharan language

primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China

Bantu language in Kenya

Western Iranian language

Kurdish language spoken in Iraq and Iran

Western Hindi language closely related to Hindi widely spoken in the North Indian state of Haryana and in Delhi

Austroasiatic language spoken by the Mon in Myanmar and Thailand

group of closely related Amazigh languages and dialects