A world language (sometimes called a global language: 101  or, rarely, an international language) is a language that is geographically widespread and...

Proto-Human language, also known as Proto-Sapiens, Proto-World, or the Urlanguage is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all human languages. The...

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native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers...

UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger is an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages. It originally...

endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages. Language loss...

codes Lists of languages List of languages by number of speakers in Europe Global language system Linguistic diversity index World language Paolillo, John...

has several articles cataloging the languages of the world in different ways: Language Category:Lists of languages This disambiguation page lists articles...

use of human language relies on social convention and is acquired through learning. Estimates of the number of human languages in the world vary between...

language, a hypothetical historical or mythical language said to be spoken and understood by all of the world's population World language, a language...

a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, link language or language of wider communication (LWC), is a language systematically...

using the phrase "Hello, World!" as a test message was influenced by an example program in the 1978 book The C Programming Language, with likely earlier use...

include terms such as "world religion", "world language", "world government", "world war", "world population", "world economy", or "world championship". The...

English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication"[full citation needed] and can...

The Uralic languages (/jʊəˈrælɪk/ yoor-AL-ik), sometimes called the Uralian languages (/jʊəˈreɪliən/ yoor-AY-lee-ən), are spoken predominantly in Europe...

World English refers to the English language as a lingua franca used in business, trade, diplomacy and other spheres of global activity, while World Englishes...

The Chicago World Language Academy was opened in 1894 to serve children from the crowded tenement community surrounding the Polk Street Station port of...

English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s...

The Sounds of the World's Languages, sometimes abbreviated SOWL, is a 1996 book by Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson which documents a global survey of...

a list of lists of languages. SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages. The International Organization...

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...

The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive...

third-most spoken European language in the world in terms of native speakers and the second-most spoken Romance language in the world, surpassed only by Spanish...

native language in Europe, the most spoken Slavic language, as well as the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia. It is the world's seventh-most...

Virtual worlds are playing an increasingly important role in education, especially in language learning. By March 2007 it was estimated that over 200 universities...

Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is...

intended to be an additional language for communication between the people of the world, rather than to replace their native languages. Often, the term is used...

minority language) granted to their given world language may precipitate the rapid decline of the state (national) language in favor of the world language. That...

known languages in the world: Niger–Congo (1,552 languages) Austronesian (1,256 languages) Trans–New Guinea (481 languages) Sino-Tibetan (458 languages) Indo-European...

The Paleo-Siberian languages are several language isolates and small language families spoken in parts of Siberia. They are not known to have any genetic...