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Domain

Human Geography	Alphabetical and Neurological	Statistical Demography (by number)
Indigenous languages of the Americas Indigenous languages of the Americas Indigenous languages of the Americas are spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America, encompassing the land masses which constitute the Americas. These indigenous languages consist of dozens of distinct language families as well as many language... East Asian languages East Asian languages East Asian languages describe two notional groupings of languages in East and Southeast Asia:* Languages which have been greatly influenced by Classical Chinese and the Chinese writing system, in particular Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese .* The larger grouping of languages includes the...	by nomenclature	total number of speakers number of native speakers Ethnologue list of most spoken languages List of most-used languages on the Internet Political Geography

Spoken

According to SIL International
SIL International
SIL International is a U.S.-based, worldwide, Christian non-profit organization, whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages,...

, there are 6,909 spoken languages, as cataloged and described in the book Languages of the World (ISBN 0883128152). The International Organization for Standardization
International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on February 23, 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial...

(ISO) assigns codes for most languages: for example, ISO 639-3
ISO 639-3
ISO 639-3:2007, Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages, is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages. It extends the ISO 639-2...

uses "eng" for English and "apk" for Plains Apache
Plains Apache language
The Plains Apache language is a Southern Athabaskan language spoken by the Plains Apache peoples living primarily in central Oklahoma....

, one of the five Apache languages of North America.

ISO

639-1, 639-2, 639-5

List of ISO 639-3 codes

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History

Geographical Subject of Expertise (by Faculty of Hierarchical Structure)

Order of Classification	Technology Influenced	Affair Desire Rationale
Historical & Technocratic Posthumanism	Political Geography and Anthropological Disapora Africa Languages of Africa There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families:Afro-Asiatic spread throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel... , Western (Political), Europe Languages of Europe Most of the languages of Europe belong to Indo-European language family. These are divided into a number of branches, including Romance, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Greek, and others. The Uralic languages also have a significant presence in Europe, including the national languages Hungarian, Finnish,... , North America (West). Oceania Languages of Oceania Many languages are indigenous to Oceania; they belong to several families. The Austronesian family is the most common, found throughout many Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.Australia is home to many diverse families of indigenous languages:... Eastern: Asia Languages of Asia There is a wide variety of languages spoken throughout Asia, comprising a number of families and some unrelated isolates. Many languages have a long tradition of writing.-Central and North Asian languages:TurkicAzeriKazakKyrgyzTatar**Turkish... , North America (West), South America Southeast Asia, Languages of South Asia Languages of South Asia South Asia is home to several hundred languages. Most languages spoken in India belong either to the Indo-European , the Dravidian , the Austroasiatic , or the Tibeto-Burman South Asia is home to several hundred languages. Most languages spoken in India belong either to the Indo-European (ca....	Programming Paradigm List of programming languages

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