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Languages are, roughly speaking, ways of representing things. In mathematics and computing we use things called formal languages and programming languages, 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 concepts:

Some of the major languages of the world:

[Arabic language]?
[Chinese language]?
English language
French language
German language
Greek language
[Hebrew language]?
[Hindi language]?
[Italian language]?
Japanese language
[Korean language]?
Polish language
[Portuguese language]?
Russian language
Spanish language

Grouped by families:

Indo-European (Germanic, Romantic, Slavic, Celtic?, Greek, etc.)
Uralic languages ((Finno-Ugric?, Samoyedic?)
[Altaic languages]? (Turkic?, Mongolic?, Tunguzic?)
[Caucasian languages]? (Abkhazo-Adyghian?, Nakho-Dagestanian?, Kartvelian?)
Sino-Tibetan languages (Chinese?, Tibeto-Burman?)
Afro-Asiatic languages (Semitic?, etc.)
[Niger-Congo languages]? (Bantu?, etc.)
Austroasiatic languages
Dravidian languages
Tai languages
Unique languages
- [Basque language]?
Incertae sedis
- Japanese language
- [Korean language]?
Artificial languages (Esperanto, etc.)

Grouped by geographical area:

Southeast Asian languages