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:

• PhilosophyOfLanguage
• SapirWhorfHypothesis

Some of the major languages of the world:

• Arabic language
• Chinese language
• English language
• French language
• German language
• Greek language
• Hebrew language
• Italian language
• Japanese language
• Korean language
• Polish language
• Russian language
• Spanish language

Grouped by families:

• Indo-European (Germanic, Romantic, Slavic, Celtic, Greek, etc.)
• Uralic languages
• Altaic languages
• Sino-Tibetan languages (Chinese, etc.)
• Afro-Asiatic languages (Semitic, etc.)
• Bantu, etc.)
• Austroasiatic languages
• Tai languages
• Dravidian languages
• ...
• Artificial languages (Esperanto, etc.)
• Incertae sedis
• Japanese language
• Korean language