Wikipedia 10K Redux

Reconstructed by Reagle from Starling archive; see blog post for context.

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:

Grouped by families: