World's Major Languages

Bernard Comrie is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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• Introduction 1. Indo-European Languages 2. Germanic Languages 3. English  4. German  5. Dutch  6. Danish, Norwegian and Swedish 7. Latin and the Italic Languages 8. Romance Languages 9. French 10. Spanish 11. Portuguese 12. Italian 13. Romanian 14. Slavonic Languages 15. Russian 16. Polish 17. Czech and Slovak 18. Serbo-Croat: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian 19. Greek 20. Indo-Aryan Languages 21. Sanskrit 22. Hindi-Urdu 23. Bengali 24. Iranian Languages 25. Persian 26. Pashto 27. Uralic Languages 28. Hungarian 29. Finnish 30. Turkish and the Turkic Languages 31. Afroasiatic Languages 32. Semitic Languages 33. Arabic 34. Hebrew  35. Amharic 36. Hausa and the Chadic Languages 37. Tamil and the Dravidian Languages 38. Tai Languages 39. Thai 40. Vietnamese  41. Sino-Tibetan Languages 42. Chinese  43. Burmese 44. Japanese 45. Korean 46. Austronesian Languages 47. Malay-Indonesian 48. Javanese   49. Tagalog  50. Niger-Kordafian (Niger-Congo) Languages 51. Yoruba  52. Swahili and the Bantu Languages