Lingua francas

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.

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 '''' ().

Western Romance language

language group of the Sinitic languages

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).

Austronesian macrolanguage, basis for Malaysian Malay and Indonesian

official language of Nepal

Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia, comprising the two normative forms of Hindi and Urdu

Chadic language native to the Hausa people

language used to facilitate communication between groups without a common native language

Sino-Tibetan language

western African language spoken in Mali, with SVO structure and two lexical tones

extinct Turkic language of Central Asia

Turkic language

extinct Eastern Iranian language of Central Asia

Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali

lingua franca of the Mediterranean Basin between the 11th and 19th centuries

Ajem-Turkic or Ajami Turkic (; Türkī-yi ʿacemī, 'Persian Turkic' or 'Persian Turkish'), also known as Middle Azeri or Middle Azerbaijanian, is the Turkic vernacular spoken in Iran between the 15th and 18th centuries. The modern Azerbaijani language is descended from this language.

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pidgin used as a lingua franca among Native American groups living along the Gulf of Mexico