The full list of thirty languages used in the Language P database,
classified by geographical and cultural region, then by language
family. The “Big Six” languages are underlined.
East Asia: Confucianist, Taoist, Buddhist (Mahayana)
- Sino-Tibetan > Chinese: Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese
- Non-Chinese, influenced by Chinese: Japanese, Korean (both isolate or Altaic), Vietnamese (Austroasiatic)
South Asia: Hindu, Buddhist (Theravada), Jain, Sikh, Islamic
- Indo-European > Indo-Aryan (from Sanskrit): Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi
- Dravidian: Telugu, Tamil, Kannada
- Sino-Tibetan > Tibeto-Burmese: Burmese
- Tai-Kadai > Tai: Thai
- Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian: Malay-Indonesian, Javanese, Tagalog (Filipino)
West Asia–North Africa: Islamic (Sunni, Shi’a, Ibadi), Christian, Jewish
- Afro-Asiatic > Semitic: Arabic
- Altaic > Turkic: Turkish
- Indo-European > Iranian: Persian (Farsi)
Europe: Christian (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant), Jewish
- Indo-European > Slavic: Russian, Polish
- Indo-European > Germanic: English, German
- Indo-European > Romance (from Latin): Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian
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