The Top 10 Languages

Languages of the World

The languages of the world are a real "Tower of Babel." Those who spend their life studying such things cannot even agree on the number of languages and discussions generally devolve to discussing what is a language and what is a dialect. It is not our intention here to get involved in that discussion, but to use what has been done to organize this site in a way that makes finding available resources possible.

The two most commonly used lists of languages are referred to as ISO 639-2, containing 541 entries and ISO 639-3, containing 8,141 entries as of January, 2016.

Except as noted, we will use the ISO 639-3 codes to organize the languages used here.

Currently we have approximately 150 of these languages in place with dictionary links to all the languages at Glosbe.com. our site is organized with the home page for each language being the ISO 3 digit code, thus the English is www.wordsrus.info/eng; Spanish is www.wordsrus.info/esp; Russian is www.wordsrus.info/rus, etc.