Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages

This is an essay. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article or a Wikipedia policy, as it has not been reviewed by the community.

Ethnologue has long been the default source for language data on WP, despite its often poor referencing. It was the only global reference that was freely available online when the majority of WP language articles were created, but since has become expensive for any use beyond basic information on a language (Essentials Plan: 480 US$/year as of 2023). In February 2023 a free "Starter" user category was created that gives information on language names, population figures (only in rough magnitude ranges), location, vitality and classification.^[1] Users in low and middle-income countries as defined by the World Bank are still eligible for free access to the "Essentials" plan. People who contribute to Ethnologue at least once a year also receive a free Standard Plan. Alternatively, a combination of Glottolog, for classification and for general sourcing, and the Endangered Languages Project, for demographic data, is probably another reliable default combination of free online sources, though there are also reliable specialized sites such as AIATSIS for Australia. Linguist List/MultiTree maintains some value for long-extinct languages.

There are several advantages to Ethnologue: for many languages, it's the only demographic data we have; for others, it provides a check on the politicization and population inflation that we experience when we allow advocates of a language to cherry-pick sources. Nonetheless, Ethnologue data needs to be carefully evaluated. Beside the now prohibitive cost, there are a few common and serious problems:

Such problems are understandable: Ethnologue is an enormous project with a very small editorial team. For years, Ethnologue had a reputation for being unresponsive, so many linguists do not bother to correct the errors they find, but since ca. 2012 they have been appreciative of feedback, and the quality of their coverage has improved markedly. Nonetheless, Ethnologue's sources (when they can be identified) should be checked for the accuracy of its claims whenever possible, and other sources used when available and Ethnologue's sources cannot be identified.

Glottolog is a reliably cited and well-researched alternative to Ethnologue. Apart from not covering demographics, it does a generally superior job, for instance in verifying and updating the classifications it adopts, in marking languages as 'spurious' when they cannot be verified to exist, and most importantly in citing its sources both for the languages and for their classifications. But it is largely the work of a single person (Harald Hammarström), and he has not had the time to improve on Ethnologue for all the languages of the world, so in some cases Glottolog is not (yet) an independent source. In most cases Hammarström has personally vetted the sources, even to the extent of doing his own comparison of the raw lexical or morphological data to evaluate which classification is the most accurate, though it may take some digging for the reader to determine all his evidence. He does however not distinguish whether a language with no known relatives is an isolate (a family of one) or simply unclassified due to lack of data or research, listing all such cases as 'isolates'. Maps are included, but the locations are points rather than areas as in Ethnologue (not that the areas in Ethnologue are necessarily accurate), and in some cases appear to be offset from where the language is actually spoken (all points on the map shifted by seemingly the same amount and direction, a problem that besets our automated location maps as well). Finally, Glottolog should not be relied on for dialects, as they were copied wholesale from MultiTree without verification and are often spurious. Only in a few cases has Glottolog since evaluated dialect data. (Dialects are typeset in italics, languages in boldface. Where the Glottolog dialects differ from those of MultiTree, they are likely to be Hammarström's or a colleague's work and thus reliable.)

The Endangered Languages Project does not attempt to include all the world's languages (it ignores languages with millions of speakers, for example, and as of 2021 doesn't cover some poorly documented areas of the world), but as of 2021 it has articles on 3585 languages/lects, 285 without ISO codes. ELP concentrates on demographic data, and tries to provide the most recent reliable sources for speaker population, transmission rate, bilingualism, etc., and so nicely complements Glottolog. In some cases it provides the date of the data, not just the date of its publication. Non-demographic data is minimal, and (like Glottolog) the maps show the languages as points rather than areas. (E.g. Comorian, where the location dot is in the middle of the ocean between the islands.). There are indications that some of the data has been input by people who don't understand it, such as locations of African languages being on the wrong side of the continent. It should therefore be used for its references rather than as a reliable source in its own right.

AIATSIS presents data from multiple sources for the indigenous languages spoken within the national borders of Australia. Its primarily focus is on identifying the many names found in the literature, resolving synonyms and ambiguities, evaluating whether putative lects can be confirmed to be distinct languages or dialects, and identifying which names might benefit from further investigation of archival sources.

Unreliable sites

Linguist List / MultiTree is a former undergrad student project that includes a large number of language names not found in Ethnologue, but their identification is highly unreliable, and can often be seen to be spurious with even a cursory glance at the literature. Since the creation of Glottolog they are no longer of much value as a source of references for living languages, though they do provide some informative expert summaries of the literature for long-extinct languages.

ISO 639-3 is only a reliable source for ISO codes and names. It should not be relied on for preferred names or spellings, whether a lect is a distinct language or a dialect, or whether it is still spoken. For example, despite its stated ideal of distinguishing languages by mutual intelligibility, for political reasons ISO maintains separate 639-3 codes for Serbian and Croatian, Urdu and Modern Standard Hindi, and Malaysian and Indonesian, despite private acknowledgements that doing so violates their stated aim. (Such pluricentric distinctions would be better maintained at ISO 639-2.) However, because ISO 639-3 codes are widely used to identify languages, WP language articles should include the ISO 639-3 name in the lead or a dedicated section if they use something different for the article name, and we should created redirects for those ISO names and for the codes themselves.

Global Recordings Network copies much of its data from Ethnologue, misidentifies alternative names as languages, and contradicts itself with speaker numbers.

• {{interlinear}} for aligning interlinear glossing
• {{IPA}} to format IPA, {{IPAc-en}} to convert ASCII input to normalized IPA for English, etc. (we have IPA templates for many other languages, which link to a pronunciation key)

This WikiProject is a descendant of WikiProject Linguistics. It has descendants of its own, most of which aren't particularly active at present.

See also:

• WikiProject Writing systems
• WikiProject Translation Studies

If you'd like to help out, be contacted by others interested in this WikiProject's subject, and receive task assignments and project-related updates on your talk page, please add your name here:

• Sangsangaplaz (talk · contribs) - I can edit and improve any language articles if they are related to the Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Contact me on my talk page or email me.
• Arayaz (talk · contribs) - I'm Alia, and I'd love to contribute my knowledge to this. I'm hesitant to overcommit, but I'd be willing work on this project, especially as to standardizing what information about a language should be given. Native speaker of American English, some skill in Spanish, limited knowledge of Klallam, and a general command of linguistics in general.
• irtapil (talk · contribs) - I'm happy to be contacted on my talk page or twitter @irtapil. I'm a bit weary of over-committing, so to start with i would prefer to pick my own assignments, or start with very small assignments that i'm confident i can get done without letting anyone down. Currently i'm most interested in alphabets, particularly the descendants of Arabic. But the only language i'm fluent in is Australian English.
• Theeternalexpat (talk · contribs) - Native speaker of American English. I also speak fluent Argentinian Spanish, and have decent command of Brazilian and European Portuguese and Catalan/Valencian
• R9tgokunks (talk · contribs) - Native American English speaker with knowledge of British English and Canadian English as well. Intermediate High German knowledge. Easy understanding of Dutch. Some understanding of Yiddish. Currently studying French and Japanese. Previous hobby languages were Latin and Russian. Small knowledge of Romani and Hindi. Previously studied Castilian Spanish.
• ŠotiBriti (talk) Native English speaker from Scotland, speak good French and German, basic Polish, Russian and Spanish, and have dabbled in various others.
• SpringProof (talk · contribs) - Native speaker of American English, learner of French, Spanish, Japanese, and many more to come.
• newroderick895 (talk · contribs) i would like to help this project
• Lrschneider (talk) 04:33, 24 February 2016 (UTC) Linguistics undergraduate especially interested in phonology and Ryukyuan languages.
• Ketugua Chamorro language
• trexeriffic I'm a linguistics student. Native English speaker, with Russian & French reading and some Georgian. I'm also shifting a lot of my research to Northwest Caucasian languages.
• Francoisalex2 I am fond of languages, studying right now Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic.
• Harsimaja I started four language articles a while ago (also Mozambican - two of them still barebones), but would like to focus on this more - there are too many African languages without a Wikipedia page. My native language is English, but can manage comfortably in some others, incl. French and German.
• Van Gulik Specializing in Sino-Tibetan, linguistic classification all over, and Classical languages. Good working knowledge of Mandarin.
• ImperiumCaelestis
• shikurg
• Kanyimbe: I've worked mostly "offline" in Mozambique but am moving into a role that involves language development for Southern African languages.
• Musicbreather:I speak English predominantly, and small amounts of Spanish, German, and French.
• Gibmetal77: Native English, Spanish and Llanito, advanced French, and basic Maltese and Italian.
• RyGuy17
• Spacevezon-Indo-European (mainly Slavic, Germanic, Romance, Greek), phonology, orthography, Ugralic. Memorised the whole of the IPA (and can pronounce every symbol [excluding ones which have diacratics and epiglottal consonants])
• Ciacchi: Icelandic, Italian & Portuguese
• Node
• Nohat
• Sofa jazz man
• Danny
• Αδελφος English, Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea), and some Spanish
• Ling.Nut
• jeronim
• Tox
• Secretlondon
• ran
• Mark Dingemanse (though I must admit that most of my articles aren't laid out according to the language template)
• Mustafaa
• Ptcamn
• Marnen
• Garzo
• Abbruzzi
• Wikiacc
• Peter Isotalo: primarily Swedish
• Whimemsz
• IceKarma
• Pablo D. Flores
• Conrad Leviston
• millosh* (talk (sr:))
• Angr
• Benjamin
• Martin
• Aleksei
• moyogo
• newydd
• ntennis (mainly sign languages)
• The Great Gavini (uh, does British language (Celtic) count?)
• Gailtb
• Straughn Turkic and languages of the former USSR
• Enlil Ninlil English, German and Cantonese, also Indigenous Australian languages
• Chris S. have done major edits to Tagalog & Kapampangan. Slowly working on other Philippine languages.
• Anupam (Hindi, Hindustani, and Urdu)
• Maunus
• Pruneau^talk
• Djordje D. Bozovic
• Marialadouce
• A R King
• A12n 20:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC) (African languages) (though like Mark I haven't been following a template, yet)
• Geoking66
• Yupik (Mainly Sami languages, but also Coptic and Old Nubian)
• Surena (Iranian languages) 06:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Womtelo -- Languages of Melanesia
• User:WilliamThweatt -- Austronesian languages, Southeast Asian languages, Celtic languages, Slavic language
• Francisco Smith-- European languages particularly German, English and Spanish
• N-true — mainly Caucasian languages and perhaps also Khoisan languages and/or some Amerindian ones...
• trwier - Mainly Caucasian languages, as well as the Algonquian language family.
• Geoking66
• Sborsody
• Khanele (Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian)
• Neranei
• Ductape821
• *Kutaka(-lu) 20:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC) New Guinean and Australian languages, especially taxonomy and historical phonology.
• Michkalas
• Muckapædia 15^e mai 2007, 23h49 (UTC+0900) :: mostly orthographies and Canadian languages and dialects.
• Sr 13 Some French, very little Chinese and Hawaiian.
• MichelleG
• Moonbug
• Dan Parvaz - Semitic languages, Signed languages, Languages of the Middle East, Language and Gesture
• kk_loach
• Tea and crumpets
• Korenyuk — Українська, Закарпатський говір, Нохчийн, Davvisápmi, ქართული, Қазақша, bokmål, Wolof; Lakĥoṫiyapi, kainunkieli, Turkic languages, Mongolic languages and some others (the first eight being either my Mother tongues, my children's (with three adopted daughters) and my wife's or those spoken where I was born and where I live(d), plus special dedication to "Lakĥol") — as much as I would be able to, due to poor health reasons
• Jckrull
• Polylerus
• Æetlr Creejl 01:33, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
• Francis Tyers ·
• Jsferreira - Caribbean languages (official, indigenous, creole, immigrant)
• Jangari - Australianist syntactician - non-pama-nyungan languages
• LiangHH - Chinese Mandarin, Spanish, German
• Landroving Linguist - Languages of Ethiopia
• Akerbeltz - Goidelic, Amerindian
• JWB (talk) 02:34, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
• Robskin - Ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, English, French, and my mother-tongue, Portuguese Robskin (talk) 05:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC).
• Aelffin (talk · contribs) - English, German, some Dutch, Frisian, Swedish, Icelandic, and other Germanic languages.
• Taivo(Linguist) - Numic languages of Uto-Aztecan, phonologies of other languages, historical linguistics and classification. I'm a linguistics professor
• Gr8opinionater
• W Tanoto - Indonesian and Javanese (both first language), English, French (both advance), Italian, Spanish, Japanese, very basic Chinese. Read Japanese kana script fluently, basic Greek script
• Umofomia - Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese)
• Hakeem.gadi (talk) 11:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC). Arabic, Libyan Arabic, English, Japanese.
• Gimme danger (talk · contribs) - Standard Tibetan and related articles.
• Szfski (talk · contribs) - Semitic and Indo-European, especially Slavic and varieties of Arabic. Also dialects of American English.
• Danielaustinhall 12 (Go Wolverines!) 20:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC) - understand Scots, know a little Middle English, understand some Spanish
• Alton (talk · contribs)
• Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 14:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC), native speker of Hindustani,Awadhi,Urdu,Hindi
• Hurmata
• Jomeara421 - Algonquian languages
• Dmitri Lytov - history of writing, theoretical linguistics, various languages, InterWiki, multilingual articles
• Widsith (talk) 07:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
• User:Coldipa - South Slavic languages
• User:Vinsfan368 Former Canadian, studying French
• C21K - mainly Kannada,Tulu & Konkani languages
• Anypodetos – mostly PIE
• G Purevdorj (talk · contribs) - mainly Mongolic languages
• User:Jed 20012
• Iudaeus (talk) 01:15, 20 January 2009 (UTC) - I speak English and Spanish but my main interest is in Ethiopian (Omotic especially) languages.
• Woollymammoth (talk · contribs) Woollymammoth (talk) 16:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC) - I am interested in all Indo-European languages, primarily Slavic languages, and historical linguistics.
• Rayizmi
• User:Auslli: Leonese language, Romance languages, European minority languages.
• User:Mysticienne French, Canadian French.
• VikSol
• DAFMM (talk English, German, French and Latin, April 2009.
• Gaidheal1
• Oashi (talk · contribs) Czech: native, Polish: second, native-like, Slovak: similar to native, English: advanced (FCE), Russian: moderate, passive (how to type it on my lat keaboard? ;) Franta Oashi (talk) 01:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
• User:VsevolodKrolikov Native British English, advanced Russian, intermediate (but improving) Japanese. University level foreign language teacher.
• User:Annihilan English: native, German: second, amateur, various others that I am not good at, but like.
• El estremeñu Spanish: native, German: amateur, English: amateur, Extremaduran: second. I know about Extremaduran language, Languages of Spain, Gazunese language, Romance languages. Learning Rapa Nui.
• Mo-Al (talk) 23:23, 9 August 2009 (UTC) Afro-Asiatic languages (especially Berber languages, Semitic languages), general phonology
• Basawala (talk) 20:27, 11 August 2009 (UTC) Hindi, Urdu, other Indo-Aryan languages, some Turkic languages, other things herer and there.
• Île_flottante~Flotting island Native English, advanced French, intermediate German and very basic Swedish.
• User:Shushu: Native Russian, Slavic languages, Russian language, Morphology, Germanic languages
• User:Ciaran12: Native English speaker, I speak the following languages to a greater or lesser extent: Swedish, Irish, French, German, Spanish, Japanese. I have a knowledge of Linguistics, in particular Historical Linguistics, with a particular interest in Germanic languages.
• User:Lingamish: Native American English speaker. Also, Spanish, Portuguese, Nyungwe. Interested in how resources about languages can be linked and discussed on Wikipedia.
• MuffledThud (talk) 09:13, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
• AD Messing: Ancient Greek, Latin, French, German. Also familiar with PIE linguistics and cognitive linguistics.
• Erutuon: Attic and Homeric Greek, Latin; some Old Norse, Old English, Gothic, French, German, Arabic. Writing systems: Latin, Greek, Arabic, Tengwar, IPA.
• Andrei: Taiwanese, Chinese, Russian and a little French.
• joshuajohnlee : English, French, Russian, German, Swedish, Urdu. Writing systems including Cyrillic and Arabic text.
• Gordon P. Hemsley: native AmE speaker (with intermediate Spanish skills) interested in syntax, comparative and historical linguistics, constructed languages, IPA, and copyediting—just about anything that has orderly rules or standards that can be adhered to.
• Franzose: Interested in the History of the English language, Romance languages, post-structuralism, Chomskyian linguistics and pretty much anything else that comes up.
• User:snowman304: native English speaker, some Spanish, bits of French; can transliterate Latin alphabet to and from Cyrillic, as well as Latin to and from Greek
• Munci: speak French and German, been learning a few others, interests in many
• Adavis444
• Kalich 03:58, 27 August 2010 (UTC): native English speaker, working knowledge of Spanish; am a Mayan linguist (specifically working with Q'eqchi).
• Stevey7788 — English speaker working on various Amerindian and Asian languages. Familiar with a lot of comparative linguistics.
• Vihelik (talk)
• Ano-User (talk) 04:11, 11 December 2010 (UTC): Languages of Oceania: Austronesian languages, Indigenous Australian languages
• Miniapolis (talk) Native English speaker; interested in French, Russian, Polish, Czech and Norwegian.
• Codrinb (talk · contribs) 05:34, 9 January 2011 (UTC) - Native Romanian speaker; interested in ancient Dacian and Thracian. Also interested in finding the truth about the controversial Dacian script, Sinaia lead plates and Rohonc Codex.
• MacedonianBoy (talk · contribs)
• Nicky Nouse (talk · contribs · count · logs)
• chevil: English, Chinese, Thai; Sinitic, Hmong-Mien and Kra-Dai historical linguistics
• Zyztem2000 (talk · contribs): speaker of English, French, German; interests include nomenclature,classification & coding of the world's languages, and concept of the "linguasphere".
• Violarulez
• Knowing guy
• Farrugiuh
• User:Suffolkdialect Primarily East Anglian dialects, but also all Gaelic Languages - Brezhoneg, Kernewek, Cymraeg, Gaidhlig, Gaeilge, Gaelg.
• Karlpopper91
• Stelpa (talk · contribs)
• --Jeneme (talk) 18:40, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
• Epf - Speaker of English and Italian with an interest in the classification, number of speakers, status and geographic distribution of various "minority" and indigenous languages on all continents.
• Eo fr en (talk) Native speaker of French. I'm trilingual and I speak French, English and Esperanto.
• Ebe123 (talk · contribs) Native speaker of French; knows many languages. ~~Ebe 123~~ → report 21:09, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
• Cavallero
• Eisfbnore Native speaker of Norwegian; knows many other Germanic languages and some French and Japanese
• Piccolapixxie (talk) Native speaker of British English, professional translator from Italian. I also have a good foundation in Spanish, Welsh and Russian. I am able to translate for Simple English WP.
• binukj.a post graduate in Linguistics, native speaker of Malayalam
• luxemoxie (talk · contribs · email) is happy to help with anything.
• filelakeshoe (talk · contribs) - former English teacher, mainly interested in West Slavic languages
• iank125 (talk · contribs) linguistics student. Native AmE. Advanced German knowledge, intermediate Mandarin. Interested in Germanic and Sino-Tibetan languages, morphology, syntax, and phonology.
• Mordeaux (talk · contribs) Aspiring linguist. Interested in Italian Dialectology, Language Shift, and Linguistic Anthropology generally.
• Abrahamic Faiths (talk · contribs) - I'm monolingual at the moment, but I wish to learn Esperanto someday, but I'm great at making lists and tables, I enjoy SIL-Ethnologue's graphs, charts and lists, I can be of help when it comes to organization, and making of cladistics and phylogenetic charts of how languages relate to each other, I can be very organized when I put my mind to it.
• Joeystanley (talk · contribs) Linguistics grad student. Native English speaker, fluent in Portuguese, studying Guarani.
• Qanada Ever (talk · contribs) I speak English and French fluently and have a passion for languages and linguistics; I am planning on becoming a linguist. I am currently studying Japanese, Arabic, and Latin, and I can read the IPA readily.
• Grosef25
• Kim9988
• AlbertBickford (talk · contribs): Most experience with sign languages and Mesoamerican languages. Professional linguist. I work as part of Ethnologue staff, which potentially can lead to NPOV issues, but I work hard to avoid that. On balance, my involvement with Ethnologue seems more of a benefit than a hindrance to this project, but I invite other editors to keep an eye on that and let me know of any concerns.
• Akifumii Canadian polyglot, professional translator
• Tezero - I'm not a professional or aspiring linguist, but I speak decent Japanese, alright Czech, and lesser amounts of other things. As of this writing (July 19, 2014) I'm working on the Czech language article and, in my personal life, learning Navajo.
• WeijiBaikeBianji: Wikipedian since 2010, studied linguistics and a variety of languages during undergraduate studies decades ago, have studied languages from multiple language families with second languages sometimes used as the medium of instruction. I have great access to reliable sources through local libraries and the Wikipedia Library shared access programs, and I would like to update high-page view articles such as English language at least up to good article status or even featured article status.
• MintyNinja41: I'm a native English speaker, and I speak near-fluent Spanish and passable German. I'm available for any task for which I'm needed.
• Kwamikagami: I've been here for years, though not as active as I used to be. I've been doing mostly grunt work, e.g. on getting ISO, Glottolog, AIATSIS, etc. coverage, reverting population inflation and politically motivated "languages", focusing on small, under-served groups like Khoisan, Andamanese, sign languages, obscure extinct languages. Also writing systems, IPA, adding phonemic inventories. Mostly just creating stubs and start-level articles, unless there's a POV conflict that I see as a problem or can help resolve. Bit burnt out, but will help where I can.
• SynConlanger: postdoc researcher in linguistics (specialisation in phonetics and phonology).
• SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  04:56, 24 October 2015 (UTC) I have a degree (minor) in linguistics, and I do a lot of template coding (mostly in wikitemplate code; my feet are not yet very wet with Lua/Scribunto modules as of this date).
• Inter&anthro: studying linguistics in college, can understand English, Italian & Spanish. Know a tiny bit of Mandarin and Maya. Mainly interested in languages of Asia and Americas but willing to work on anything.
• Apostlebird: I'm studying linguistics and have had an interest in languages for years, as well as conlanging. I love the phonology field. I can contribute towards various kinds of information that I may have knowledge and sources about.
• Vvven ☺ ☏ ¢ 04:56, 24 October 2015 (UTC) Contributing largely creating and expanding many articles related with Spanish language
• Hamid Hassani (talk) 23:03, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
• Avgr8: Native speaker of Hindi and English.Know a bit of Sanskrit and French.Focussing on contributing towards hindi wikipedia articles.
• Commissaress: Native English speaker with decent knowledge of French, German and Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian. Mostly interested in Slavic languages and phonology, but will help wherever.
• Iazyges: Native english, some understanding of chinese. Main focus is Romance languages.
• Paine Ellsworth: Language redirects – I apply {{R from alternative language}} with its parameters that use ISO 639 language codes to appropriate redirects. I work toward correctly tagging and categorizing every alternative language redirect. Great
• Zofthej (talk): Native English and Hebrew speaker with high level of Arabic and Aramaic. Have a special interest in Semitic languages and minority languages in the Arab world.
• Schwiiz (talk) 21:35, 6 March 2017 (UTC): Interest in Conlangs and Germanic languages primary. Small interest in Slavic and Romance languages also.
• gnome work! As a page mover, I have also been involved as closer or participant in several language-oriented requested moves.
• DrHäxer (talk) 19:15, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
• gdog1102: English speaker and Dutch learner. I plan on studying linguistics in college. I love historical and theoretical linguistics and am an avid conlanger. My dream is to get into MIT. I would be honored to be a part of this project and I love to know that my contributions, no matter how small, are going towards a better wikipedia.Gdog1102 (talk) 03:20, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
• TSP2000 Researcher in Indo-European and Asian languages.
• User:Bluethailand Language researcher for Mainland Southeast Asia.
• Faith (talk) Interested in languages and communication. Native to English and learning French.
• Dbudell (talk) 19:35, 15 March 2018 (UTC) I'm a founding member of the Wikitongues user group and passionate about promoting and preserving linguistic diversity. I'm a native English speaker and fluent in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese. I also have working proficiency in Italian and French. Eager to help however I can!
• Stephen Jones Native English speaker, linguistics student.
• User:Plandu
• User:Amiloshoff Native American English speaker with high fluency in Spanish and lesser in French and Esperanto. I have an affinity towards minority languages, sociolinguistics and proper documentation and access to information about natural languages.
• Eliyili00: Native English speaker. Advanced in Mandarin and Spanish, beginner in French and Modern Standard Arabic. Prospective linguistics major.
• Esmost (talk · contribs): Native speaker of English, Urdu, and Farsi, proficient in French and Spanish, and currently learning Turkish. More interested in the cultural affairs of language (literature and the like) than its political dynamics, but wouldn't mind helping out in any way I can.
• Anarhistička Maca Native English speaker, some proficiency in Croatian and Spanish. Interested in Slavic languages mainly, but not restricted to them. I wish to help in any way I can, and am open to being contact whenever needed.
• Masjawad99^💬 Native Malay/Indonesian speaker. I mostly do small copyedits, but I would like to completely rewrite some articles if I have time to. Interested in Austronesian languages, phonology and historical linguistics.
• Soumya-8974 (talk · contribs)
• Bob not snob (talk · contribs)
• Noahfgodard (talk · contribs) Native American English Speaker. I speak conversational German, and I study Spanish at school. I have also dabbled in Korean, Welsh, etc. I'm very interested in historical and comparative linguistics.
• Shayvory (talk) 21:34, 1 April 2020 (UTC) Interested in developing Antillean Creole pages, . Native English-speaker, fluent French-speaker.
• Skoulikomirmigotripa (talk · contribs) Native English, advanced Greek, and a very basic understanding of German. Interested largely in bringing more order to the various Greek language pages, also interested in expanding those pages of endangered languages like Pennsylvania Dutch or Tsakonian.
• Zhen Zhen (talk · contribs)
• Calbow (talk · contribs) Interested in Indigenous Australian languages, as well as tracking the status of endangered/extinct/reviving languages.
• Samtelson (talk · contribs) Native speaker of English, Urdu, Hindi, and Marathi. Fluent in French, Spanish, German, and Turkish. Currently learning Farsi, Bangla and Malayalam. Interested in contributing to South-East Asian languages.
• Kdtbhl (talk · contribs) Speaks English natively; is a linguist who works on Finnish and Yup'ik.
• LittleCuteSuit (talk · contribs) Native English speaker, learning Chinese.
• TheRealGrantma (talk · contribs) Native English speaker, learning Spanish.
• Esmost (talk · contribs)
• Okonomiyaki39 (talk · contribs) Fluent in American English and Hawaiian Pidgin. Learning Japanese and Hawaiian. I'm also interested in historical linguistics.
• Boynamedsue (talk · contribs) Interested in Romance and Celtic languages, also pidgins and creoles. Knows a bit about South American languages. Can read all Latin languages and dialects, except, ironically, Latin.
• Erinius (talk · contribs) Interested in English and Spanish linguistics, dialectology, phonology
• DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk · contribs) I study Ancient Languages at University and am learning several modern ones which you can see on my userpage 😊
• Quanstizium (talk · contribs) German native, studying Dutch, can read French, Latin and Ancient Greek. Also interested in English and its dialects, as well as creole languages, and tracking endangered languages. Quanstizium (talk) 21:52, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
• SuperNova422 (talk · contribs) I am a native speaker of the English language and I can sort communicate in the Spanish language. Linguistics is my strong suit, even though I’m awful at learning languages myself.
• Vis M (talk · contribs) (Malayalam (Native), English, Hindi) I actively volunteer at Wikidata:Lexicographical data, mlWikt and enWikt. Have also learned some Japanese and German. I am interested in making more free language resources available to the public
• Jack4897 (talk · contribs) (English (Native), French, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch) I'm interested in world linguistics.
• Hwqaksd (talk · contribs)
• Saturn star (talk · contribs) English is my first language and I know French but am far from fluent, and so far very basic Spanish.
• NorthWu (talk) 22:42, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
• FishandChipper (talk) 12:47, 9 May 2022 (UTC) Very interested in Lingustics and language learning. Native English speaker and almost fluent in German, currently studying Japanese. Can also speak a little Irish and Toki Pona.
• MichaelTheSlav (talk · contribs) I speak Polish natively, English fluently and German on an intermediate level. I’m interested especially in historical linguistics and dialectology, can also help with phonology. I have access to a local library which has a good deal of linguistic resources, mainly by Polish linguists. If you need anything for sources message me!
• Rainako (talk · contribs)
• Dhoru 21 (talk · contribs) Native Dhivehi speaker, fluent in English and interested in languages
• Anlztrk (talk · contribs)
• Austronesier (talk · contribs)
• Chernorizets (talk · contribs) I'm a native speaker of Bulgarian, with near-native fluency in English and everyday conversational fluency in Spanish. I'm interested in Slavic languages, Germanic languages and historical linguistics, and have done some college-level coursework in the latter two. I'm happy to help out whenever my schedule allows for it.
• 1RightSider (talk · contribs) - German, English, and bits of others.
• Ashertheaxolotl (talk · contribs) Interested in writing systems, the language I speak are on my user page
• WanderingMorpheme (talk · contribs)
• Anotaomo (talk · contribs) Native Tagalog talker, wants to know languages
• GMFinnegan (talk · contribs)
• Ansony89 (talk · contribs) I'd be willing to commit a bit of time sporadically, especially about French, Chinese and Japanese. Contact me on my talk page or email me.
• Kepler-1229b (talk · contribs)
• PharyngealImplosive7 (talk · contribs)
• Carnby (talk · contribs) Italian linguist, interested in phonetics, Italian dialects and regional languages
• Moon of Mercury (talk · contribs) Experience with language and linguistics. Some ability with Turkish, Germany, Spanish.
• Xiphoid Vigour (talk · contribs)
• Alxeedo (talk · contribs) not a linguist and only fluent in English, but I'm learning Japanese and interested in linguistics, so will probably mostly be helping fix formatting and running other errands of that nature.
• Grumpylawnchair (talk · contribs) Slavic languages, espicially smaller and endangered ones
• Pineapple Storage (talk · contribs): native speaker of English, with good knowledge of French and Spanish, and beginner/intermediate Mandarin Chinese. Not an expert, but interested in languages and linguistics, especially lesser-known and endangered languages.
• CSGinger14 (talk) Linguistics and anthropological/historical assistance mainly. Spoken knowledge of French, Swahili, Spanish, English, Dutch, and Sanskrit. 06:37, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
• Citation unneeded (talk · contribs) - experience with English, French, Hindi and Classical Tibetan - mostly linguistics-related edits
• Aristaeusapiculturist (talk · contribs) - Interested in adding grammar information to language articles which are lacking it. I've done some already and I plan to do more in the future.
• Zayn Kauthar (talk · contribs) mainly focusing in Sumatran and Kalimantan languages, currently working on expanding and improving Acehnese and its related articles.
• Zoe3456 (talk · contribs)
• Teangacha 05:15, 22 April 2026 (UTC)
• Oklopfer (talk · contribs) Phonetics fanatic. I am more active on the parent project (WP:Linguistics), but also hang out here when it comes to language classification and phonologies.
• ङघिञ (talk) 12:04, 26 July 2026 (UTC) I love languages! Will help out on IPA, Brahmic scripts and Indo European languages. Interested in knowing about more languages.
• Njakonkalwa (talk · contribs) I speak some funky american english dialect, learning Polish, Nivkh, Russian, and Ket. Planning on further studying and writing about Siberian and Uralic languages/linguistics

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