Language
Languages are, roughly speaking, ways of representing things. In mathematics and computing we use things called FormalLanguages and ProgrammingLanguages, but most often the term refers to the languages we humans use in conversation and literature.
The study of languages makes up linguistics and philology. Other important theoretical concepts:
Some of the major languages of the world:
- ArabicLanguage
- ChineseLanguage
- EnglishLanguage
- EsperantoLanguage
- FrenchLanguage
- GaelicLanguage
- GermanLanguage
- GreekLanguage
- HebrewLanguage
- ItalianLanguage
- JapaneseLanguage
- KoreanLanguage
- PolishLanguage
- RussianLanguage
- SpanishLanguage
Grouped by families:
- IndoEuropean (Germanic, Romantic, SlaviC, Celtic, Greek, etc.)
- UralicLanguages
- AltaicLanguages
- SinoTibetanLanguages (Chinese, etc.)
- AfroAsiaticLanguages (Semitic, etc.)
- NigerCongoLanguages (Bantu, etc.)
- AustroAsiaticLanguages
- TaiLanguages
- DravidianLanguages
- ...
- ArtificialLanguages