As is an Austronesian language spoken on the north coast of the Doberai Peninsula, Indonesian New Guinea, but originally from Gag Island. As at Ethnologue...

study of language is called linguistics. Critical examinations of languages, such as philosophy of language, the relationships between language and thought...

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the...

Teaching English as a second (TESL) or foreign language (TEFL) and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) are terms that refer to teaching...

Variably known as English as a foreign language (EFL), English as a second language (ESL), English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), English as an additional...

Germanic and West Germanic language after English, both as a first and a second language. Today, German is one of the major languages of the world. It is the...

the most spoken native language in Europe, the most spoken Slavic language, as well as the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia. It is the...

programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is a general-purpose programming language intended to...

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that...

described as a "batteries included" language due to its comprehensive standard library. Guido van Rossum began working on Python in the late 1980s as a successor...

semantics (meaning), usually defined by a formal language. Languages usually provide features such as a type system, variables, and mechanisms for error...

is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved...

co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. Portuguese-speaking people or nations are known as Lusophone (lusófono). As the result...

designation of the language in English, as it has the longer tradition in western languages and better expresses the role of the language as a mark of cultural...

language speakers. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries, as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Spanish is the world's...

Filipino, [ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞]) is a language under the Austronesian language family. It is the national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of...

official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the...

language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent Romance language...

February as International Mother Language Day. The person qualifies as a "native speaker" of a language by being born and immersed in the language during...

Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language. In...

Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers...

In the first Belarusian census in 1999, the Belarusian language was declared as a "language spoken at home" by about 3,686,000 Belarusian citizens (36...

also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic (/ˈɡeɪlɪk/ GAY-lik), is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which...

18th most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative...

ˈmɔʋɐ]) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the native language of a majority of Ukrainians...

41 million as second language speakers as of 2024, Bengali is the fifth most spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by the total...

both North Korea and South Korea. Beyond Korea, the language is recognized as a minority language in parts of China, namely Jilin, and specifically Yanbian...

speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The spoken varieties...

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...

Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official, and most widely spoken, language of Nepal, where it also serves as a lingua...