Languages
Feb 17, 2022 — xiaolongbao
Won't be able to study all the languages, this is mostly just a list of languages I think are interesting or worth considering.
Quicklinks
- IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)
- International Sign (Sign Language)
- Esperanto
- English
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Hokkien
- Japanese
- Kansai-ben
- Korean
Learn Languages
Classics
- Sankskrit
- Classical Chinese
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- Arabic
- Hebrew
United Nations
- English
- Spanish
- Mandarin
- French
- Russian
- Arabic
Number of Speakers
- English (1,300 M)
- Spanish (1,130 M)
- Mandarin (637 M)
- Hindi (637 M)
- French (277 M)
- Arabic (274 M)
- Russian (258 M)
- Portuguese (252 M)
- German (132 M)
- Japanese (126 M)
- Korean (79 M)
- Italian (68 M)
Asia
- China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
- Mandarin (Putonghua, Guoyu, Hanyu)
- Cantonese
- Hokkien (Taiwanese, Minnanhua)
- Shanghainese
- Mongolian
- Manchurian
- Uyghur (Turkic)
- Japan
- South Korea
- West Asia
- Arabic (Gulf, Egyptian, Syrian)
- Hebrew
- Turkish
- South Asia
- Hindi, Urdu
- Assamese
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- (Nepalese)
- Punjabi
- Tamil
- Telugu
- ASEAN
- Cambodian
- Laotian
- Malaysian (Indonesian)
- Tagalog (Filipino)
- Thai
- Vietnamese
European
- English
- Greek (Modern, Ancient, Coptic)
- Latin
- Spanish (Catalan, Mexican)
- Italian
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- German
- Dutch (Afrikaans)
- Slavic
- Russian (Ukrainian, Belarusian)
- Bulgarian, Macedonian
- Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian
- Czech, Slovak, Polish
- Nordic
- Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic
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