LanguagE

Languages are, roughly speaking, ways of representing things. In mathematics and computing we use things called FormalLanguages and ProgrammingLanguages. Most often, though, the term refers to the languages we humans use in conversation and literature.

Some of the major languages of the world:

• EnglishLanguage
• EsperantoLanguage
• FrenchLanguage
• GaelicLanguage
• GermanLanguage
• RussianLanguage
• SpanishLanguage
• ItalianLanguage
• GreekLanguage
• JapaneseLanguage
• ChineseLanguage
• KoreanLanguage
• ArabicLanguage
• HebrewLanguage
• PolishLanguage

Grouped by families:

• IndoEuropean (Germanic, Romantic, SlaviC, Celtic, Greek, etc.)
• UralicLanguages
• AltaicLanguages
• SinoTibetanLanguages (Chinese, etc.)
• AfroAsiaticLanguages (Semitic, etc.)
• NigerCongoLanguages (Bantu, etc.)
• ...
• ArtificialLanguages

Theoretical work on languages:

• ChomskysUniversalGrammar
• SapirWhorfHypothesis