Languages by Wikipedia Descriptions

It is the most widely learned second language and is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states

New words have been formed by adding affixes such as lao- (老), -zi (子), -(e)r (儿/兒), and -tou (头/頭)

It evolved from Vulgar Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans during the Second Punic War

Having previously been a literary language based on Tuscan as spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society

An Austronesian language spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore

It stands alongside Hindi and English as one of the few languages with primary official language status in more than one Indian state

The Quran and Hadith were written in it

According to Ethnologue, it is the second most widely spoken of the Bantu languages, after Swahili

The ultimate source for current estimates of the number of users in the United States is a report for the National Census of the Deaf Population (NCDP) by Schein and Delk (1974)

It was used as the language of international communication, scholarship and science until well into the 18th century, when it began to be supplanted by vernaculars (including the Romance languages)

Historically, it is regarded as the language of the Israelites and their ancestors

Dialects from peripheral regions, such as Tōhoku or Kagoshima, may be unintelligible to speakers from the other parts of the country

It is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, with 144 million speakers

Also known by its endonym Bangla

The languages that are most similar are Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish

It is unrelated to the other languages of Europe and is a language isolate in relation to any other known living language

It would eventually become the official parlance of the Byzantine Empire

It is a standardized variety of the Tagalog language, an Austronesian regional language that is widely spoken in the Philippines

His original title for the language was simply "the international language"

It is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and the predominant language of most works of Hindu philosophy as well as some of the principal texts of Buddhism and Jainism