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This [[WikiPedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]] aims primarily to provide a consistent treatment of each human [[language]] on Wikipedia. Many languages already have extensive pages, and the systematic information on those pages is not presented in a consistent way. The purpose of this WikiProject is to present that information consistently, and to ensure that each of the major areas is covered at least briefly for each language.

These are ''only'' suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you ''shouldn't'' feel obligated in the least to follow them. However, try to stick to the format for the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes|Infobox]] for each language. See the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Template|template]] for an example Infobox.

The easiest way to get started writing for a language that doesn't already have an article or to convert an article to the WikiProject format is to start with the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Template|template]].

==Article alerts==
{{/Article alerts}}

==Quality articles==
Featured articles marked in '''bold''' have appeared on the [[Main Page]].
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===Languages and language families===
*{{classicon|FA}} '''[[Black American Sign Language]]'''
*{{classicon|FA}} '''[[Levantine Arabic]]'''
*{{classicon|FA}} '''[[Mayan languages]]'''
*{{classicon|GA}} [[American Sign Language]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Black Speech]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Biblical Hebrew]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Czech language]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Danish language]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[English language]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Erromintxela language]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Interlingue]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Khmer language]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Nabataean Aramaic]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Nizaa language]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Ottawa dialect]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Philippine Spanish]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Quenya]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Taiwanese Mandarin]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Wede]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Weltdeutsch]]

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===Other===
*{{classicon|FA}} '''[[Bengali language movement]]'''
*{{classicon|FA}} '''[[Chinese classifier]]'''
*{{classicon|FA}} '''[[Problem of religious language]]'''
*{{classicon|FA}} '''[[Weise's law]]'''
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Dictionaries of the Polish language]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Edo literature]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Language]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Languages of the Roman Empire]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Polish proverbs]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Proto-Indo-European root]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Russian language in Israel]]
*{{classicon|GA}} [[Singapore Stone]]

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===Formerly recognized content===
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[American English]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Aramaic]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Bengali language]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Gbe languages]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Ido]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Irish phonology]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Laal language]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Mandarin Chinese]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Nafanan language]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Nahuatl]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Portuguese language]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Rongorongo]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Russian language]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Swedish language]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Taiwanese Hokkien]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Tamil language]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Turkish language]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Voynich manuscript]]'''
*{{icon|FFA}} '''[[Vulgar Latin]]'''
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Berber languages]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Central Atlas Tamazight]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[E language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[German language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Greenlandic language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Hebrew language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Logba language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Mongolian language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Mpra language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Nobiin language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Old Nubian]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Phla–Pherá languages]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Sanskrit]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Scots language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Senufo languages]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Shabo language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Shenwa language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Soddo language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Toki Pona]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Wagiman language]]
*{{icon|DGA}} [[Weyto language]]
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==Article assessment==
Place the {{tlx|WikiProject Languages}} project banner template on the talk pages of any language-related articles. To rate the article on the quality scale, add one of the following parameters:
* <code>class=FA</code> for [[WP:FA|featured articles]]
* <code>class=A</code> for A-class articles
* <code>class=GA</code> for [[WP:GA|good articles]]
* <code>class=B</code> for B-class articles
* <code>class=start</code> for Start-class articles
* <code>class=stub</code> for Stub-class articles (which may not necessarily have a "stub" message on them!)
* <code>class=NA</code> for non-articles (templates, images, etc.)

See [[WP:GRADES]] for pointers on classification.

===Statistics===
{{WP1|Language}}
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Language articles by quality statistics}}

==Article names==
{{see|Category:Wikipedia lists of language names from common sources}}
The guidelines for article titles for languages are at [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages)]]. In short, most language articles should be titled '''XXX language'''. Reasons for this recommendation:
# Ambiguity. While some language have special forms that refer unambiguously to the language, English is inherently ambiguous about language names. Having a standard of "XXX language" ensures that it's always unambiguous.
# Precedent. This is how ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' and many other English-language encyclopedias name their articles.
When there is nothing to disambiguate a language name from, such as [[Hindi]], [[Esperanto]] or [[Inuktitut]], there is no need for the "language".''

Whether the varieties of [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Chinese language|Chinese]] should be called "languages" or "dialects" continues to be a highly controversial issue. The current convention is: use NAME + Arabic for Arabic varieties (e.g. [[Egyptian Arabic]]) and NAME + Chinese for Chinese varieties (e.g. [[Mandarin Chinese]]). Infoboxes are put at both [[Arabic language]] and [[Chinese language]] and at their first-level subdivisions. However, where there is little controversy that a variety of Arabic or Chinese is a dialect (when it is demonstrably intelligible to other dialects), then 'dialect' is acceptable in the title. 

Even in cases in which there is a consensus that varieties of a language have a dialect status, the number and divisions between such dialects are often vaguely-defined, and controversies exist among dialectologists over whether certain varieties should be treated in a unified way or are best understood as separate though related varieties.  Separate articles should only be written on varieties (e.g., ''Estuary English'') or related groups of varieties (e.g., ''Hispanic English'') that have been well-enough studied by linguists that at least a minimal body of literature exists about that variety or group of varieties, as a distinct dialect or group of dialects.  Phonological, morphosyntactic, or lexical variation that may be considered subdialectal should be noted as "differences within X dialect,", where X is a dialect as discussed in the relevant literature. Controversies over dialect status can be noted in articles as such, but should also be based on citable work. Names used to refer to that dialect in the title should be preferred over folk-linguistic terms (e.g., ''Inland North'' versus ''Midwestern Accent'').

== Article structure ==

If you would like to create an article on a new language, you can use {{tls|New language article}} to help streamline the process. An example structure and explanation of the sections can be found at [[/Template]] for oral languages and [[/Template (sign language)]] for sign languages. Language articles are subject to Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline|inclusion criteria]].

==Open tasks==
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Open tasks}}

==Interpreting online sources of data==
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''[[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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ethnologue pricing information |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/pricing/ |website=Ethnologue.com |publisher=SIL International |access-date=22 February 2023}}</ref> Users in [[low and middle-income countries]] as defined by the [[World Bank]] are still eligible for [https://www.ethnologue.com/pricing free access] to the "Essentials" plan. [https://www.ethnologue.com/contributor-program 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: 
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*The family trees are auto-generated, and should not be relied on.  Auto-generation is skewed by idiosyncratic entries in the language articles.  In E16, for example, the Maban family was listed as a branch of the Luo languages, because one of the Luo languages was named Maban; meanwhile, there were two separate Luo branches of Nilotic due to the spelling of "Luo" not matching across articles.  The more obvious problems of this sort had been remedied in E17, but ''Ethnologue'' trees are still not a RS for classification, and the languages under a node are not a RS for the membership of a particular group.  Many of our articles still say that there are X languages in the Y branch of a family, based on ''Ethnologue'', but all that can be relied on is the classification cited in individual ''Ethnologue'' articles, and those are not sourced. 
*Speaker data is inconsistent.  For instance, in E14, Gawwada was cited as having 32,698 mother tongue speakers, including 27,477 monolinguals, based on the 1998 census.  In E17, it is cited as having 68,600 speakers based on the 2007 census, but still 27,500 monolinguals, without informing the reading that that figure comes from an older census.  Similarly, the cited size of the ethnic group may be only half the cited number of speakers, due to it being several decades older.  If the number of monolinguals or ethnic members is not given a citation date by ''Ethnologue'', it is useless and should not be repeated by us.  The number of speakers and the dialects of the language may be from different sources, with the result that the number of speakers may not be that of all dialects, or may include speakers of other ISO languages. (This is occasionally noted in the ''Ethnologue'' entry.) Very commonly, when a language is named after one of its dialects, the speaker number is that of the dialect, not of the language as a whole.  Also, a language may be split up into separate ISO codes with the result that one article covers one variety but inherits the number of speakers of all varieties from the old article.  ''Ethnologue'' has handled this well in recent years, but has not been able to go back and fix such errors inherited from old editions. 
*''Ethnologue's'' arithmetic is consistently bad.  For instance, ''Ethnologue'' lists five Central Iranian languages as having had 7,030 speakers reported in 2000.  It appears that their source listed 35,000 speakers total, and ''Ethnologue'' divided that figure by 5 for the individual articles, with no indication that the result was no more than a guess.  This kind of problem is not uncommon.  Even more commonly, ''Ethnologue'' will add together incompatible data from various sources, paying no attention to [[significant figures]].  For example, if one source reported 2 to 5 million speakers in country A in 1975, and another 5 to 10 thousand in country B in 2006, ''Ethnologue'' will report the total as 3,507,500 speakers (3.5 million, the median of 2 and 5 million, plus 7,500, the median of 5–10,000).  Old editions such as E14 are actually more reliable in this regard, as they tend to note that the estimate for country A was 2 to 5 million, when later editions will simply report 3.5 million as if that were the figure in the source.  If the original source cannot be verified, we should at least look at each of the country figures that make up the total and redo the arithmetic, so as to avoid spurious precision as much as practicable. 
*Dates are not reliable indicators of when the data was taken.  Unless they are census data, which has the problem all censuses do of speakers intentionally misreporting their language, the dates given by ''Ethnologue'' are the date of publication of their source.  That can be several decades after the date the data was collected.  The result is that an older cited date may report the same or more recent data than a newer cited date.  For instance, several Australian languages were cited as "SIL 2011" in E17.  However, in E16 they all had the same numbers of speakers cited to "Wurm and Hattori 1983".  In other cases the source that ''Ethnologue'' uses may cite an old edition of ''Ethnologue'', or the source that ''Ethnologue'' used in an old edition.  And the sources themselves may have problems that are not mentioned in ''Ethnologue''.  For instance, one source from the 1990s notes that its numbers are copied from a 1980s publication that was based on unpublished fieldwork that had been conducted in the 1950s.  In the ''Ethnologue'' entry, however, only the 1990s date was given.  For another example, the data for the Hindi languages was updated between E16 and E17, based on the new Indian census.  However, the census makes it clear that many Awadhi speakers, for example, reported their language to be "Hindi" rather than Awadhi.  The result is that the E17 figure for Hindi is inflated by perhaps 100 million people who should be listed under other languages, but there is no warning about this in ''Ethnologue''.  Many entries are also undated.  Some of these are recent oversights that will be fixed in the next edition, but many are inherited from old editions of ''Ethnologue'', and the editorial team may be unable to identify their source.  In such cases, citing the edition of ''Ethnologue'' that first reported the figure might give the reader some indication that it is not recent data. 
*Figures may be ethnic numbers and an order of magnitude greater than the actual number of speakers.  A good start in cleaning this up was made in E17, but there has been some backsliding as well, with old linguistic survey data of heritage languages being replaced with recent census data that reports ethnic identification rather than language ability. 
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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.

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==Templates==
*{{tlx|interlinear}} for aligning interlinear glossing
*{{tlx|IPA}} to format IPA, {{tlx|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) 

===Infoboxes===
* {{tlx|Infobox Chinese}}
* {{tlx|Infobox country languages}}
* {{tlx|Infobox language}}
* {{tlx|Infobox language family}}
* {{tlx|Infobox language game}}
* {{tlx|Infobox proto-language}}

===Project banner===
Please add {{Tlx|WikiProject Languages}} to talk pages of relevant articles. Articles with this template are put into [[:Category:WikiProject Languages articles]].

===Stubs===
{{see also|Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types/Culture#Language and literature}}

Language [[WP:STUB|stubs]] should be tagged with the most appropriate template of these:
* {{tlx|lang-stub}}
** '''[[Afroasiatic languages]]''' – {{tlx|Afroasiatic-lang-stub}}
*** '''[[Chadic languages]]''' – {{tlx|Chadic-lang-stub}}
**** '''[[Biu–Mandara languages]]''' (Central Chadic) – {{tlx|BiuMandara-lang-stub}}
**** '''[[East Chadic languages]]''' – {{tlx|EastChadic-lang-stub}} (pages get categorised with Chadic)
**** '''[[West Chadic languages]]''' – {{tlx|WestChadic-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Austroasiatic languages]]''' – {{tlx|Austroasiatic-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Austronesian languages]]''' – {{tlx|Austronesian-lang-stub}}
*** '''[[Javanese language]]''' – {{tlx|Javanese-stub}} (pages get categorised with Austronesian)
** '''[[Constructed language]]s''' – {{tlx|Conlang-stub}}
*** '''[[Esperanto language]]''' – {{tlx|Esperanto-stub}}
** '''[[Dravidian languages]]''' – {{tlx|Dravidian-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Indigenous languages of the Americas|Indigenous American languages]]''' – {{tlx|IndigenousAmerican-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Australian Aboriginal languages|Indigenous Australian languages]]''' – {{tlx|IndigenousAustralian-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Indo-European languages]]''' – {{tlx|IndoEuropean-lang-stub}}
*** '''[[Latin language]]''' – {{tlx|Latin-stub}}
**** '''[[Spanish language]]''' – {{tlx|Spanish-lang-stub}}
*** '''[[Yiddish language]]''' – {{tlx|Yiddish-stub}}
** '''[[Japonic languages]]''' – {{tlx|Japonic-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Mongolic languages]]''' – {{tlx|Mongolic-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Niger–Congo languages]]''' – {{tlx|NigerCongo-lang-stub}}
*** '''[[Bantu languages]]''' – {{tlx|Bantu-lang-stub}}
**** '''[[Swahili language]]''' – {{tlx|Swahili-stub}}
** '''[[Nilo-Saharan languages]]''' – {{tlx|NiloSaharan-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Northeast Caucasian languages]]''' – {{tlx|NortheastCaucasian-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Papuan languages]]''' – {{tlx|Papuan-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Pidgin]] and [[creole language]]s''' – {{tlx|Pidgincreole-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Sign language]]s''' – {{tlx|Sign-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Sino-Tibetan languages]]''' – {{tlx|SinoTibetan-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Tai–Kadai languages]]''' – {{tlx|TaiKadai-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Turkic languages]]''' – {{tlx|Turkic-lang-stub}}
** '''[[Uralic languages]]''' – {{tlx|Uralic-lang-stub}}

===Userbox===
After you [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages#Project volunteers|sign up]], you can add the project userbox to your user page by adding the following: {{tlx|User WikiProject Languages}}. Your username will then automatically be added to the [[:Category:WikiProject Languages participants]].

==Related WikiProjects==
This WikiProject is a descendant of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Linguistics|WikiProject Linguistics]]. It has descendants of its own, most of which aren't particularly active at present.

See also:
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing systems|WikiProject Writing systems]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Translation studies|WikiProject Translation Studies]]

=== Active ===
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Basque|WikiProject Basque]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages|WikiProject Constructed languages]] (semi-active)
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages/Esperanto task force|Esperanto task force]] (semi-active)
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Endangered languages|WikiProject Endangered languages]] (semi-active)
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject English language|WikiProject English Language]] (semi-active)
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Hindustani and allied languages|WikiProject Hindustani and allied languages]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Igbo|WikiProject Igbo]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin|WikiProject Latin]]

=== Inactive or defunct ===
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Dravidian languages‎|WikiProject Dravidian languages‎]] (inactive)
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous languages of California|WikiProject Indigenous languages of California]] (inactive)
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Italian dialects|WikiProject Italian dialects]] (inactive)
* WikiProject Languages of India (defunct)
* WikiProject Norman language (defunct)

==Project volunteers==
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:
* {{user|Sangsangaplaz}} - 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.
* {{user|Arayaz}} - 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 language|Spanish]], limited knowledge of [[Klallam language|Klallam]], and a general command of linguistics in general.
* {{user|irtapil}} - I'm happy to be contacted on my talk page or [https://twitter.com/irtapil 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.
* {{User|Theeternalexpat}} - Native speaker of [[American English]]. I also speak fluent [[Rioplatense Spanish|Argentinian Spanish]], and have decent command of [[Brazilian Portuguese|Brazilian]] and [[European Portuguese|European]] [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] and [[Catalan language|Catalan]]/[[Valencian language|Valencian]]
* {{User|R9tgokunks}} - Native [[American English]] speaker with knowledge of [[British English]] and [[Canadian English]] as well. Intermediate [[High German]] knowledge. Easy understanding of [[Dutch language|Dutch]]. Some understanding of [[Yiddish]]. Currently studying [[French language|French]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]]. Previous hobby languages were [[Latin]] and [[Russian language|Russian]]. Small knowledge of [[Romani language|Romani]] and [[Hindi]]. Previously studied [[Castilian Spanish]].
* [[User:ŠotiBriti|ŠotiBriti]] ([[User talk:ŠotiBriti|talk]]) Native English speaker from Scotland, speak good French and German, basic Polish, Russian and Spanish, and have dabbled in various others.
* {{User|SpringProof}} - Native speaker of [[American English]], learner of [[French language|French]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], and many more to come. 
* {{User|newroderick895}} i would like to  help this project
* [[User:Lrschneider|Lrschneider]] ([[User talk:Lrschneider|talk]]) 04:33, 24 February 2016 (UTC) Linguistics undergraduate especially interested in phonology and Ryukyuan languages.
* [[User:Ketugua|Ketugua]] Chamorro language
* [[User:trexeriffic|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.
* [[User:Francoisalex2|Francoisalex2]] I am fond of languages, studying right now Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic.
* [[User:Harsimaja|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.
* [[User:Van Gulik|Van Gulik]] Specializing in Sino-Tibetan, linguistic classification all over, and Classical languages. Good working knowledge of Mandarin.
* [[User:ImperiumCaelestis|ImperiumCaelestis]]
* [[User:shikurg|shikurg]]
* [[User:Kanyimbe|Kanyimbe]]: I've worked mostly "offline" in Mozambique but am moving into a role that involves language development for Southern African languages.
* [[User:Musicbreather|Musicbreather]]:I speak English predominantly, and small amounts of Spanish, German, and French.
* [[User:Gibmetal77|Gibmetal77]]: Native [[English language|English]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Llanito]], advanced [[French language|French]], and basic [[Maltese language|Maltese]] and [[Italian language|Italian]].
* [[User:RyGuy17|RyGuy17]]
* [[User:Spacevezon|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])
* [[User:Ciacchi|Ciacchi]]: Icelandic, Italian & Portuguese
* [[User:Node ue|Node]]
* [[User:Nohat|Nohat]]
* [[User:Sofa jazz man|Sofa jazz man]]
* [[User:Danny|Danny]]
* [[User:Αδελφος|Αδελφος]] English, Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea), and some Spanish
* [[User:Ling.Nut|Ling.Nut]]
* [[User:Jeronim|jeronim]]
* [[User:Tox|Tox]]
* [[User:Secretlondon|Secretlondon]]
* [[User:Ran|ran]]
* [[User:Mark Dingemanse|Mark Dingemanse]] (though I must admit that most of my articles aren't laid out according to the language template)
* [[User:Mustafaa|Mustafaa]]
* [[User:Ptcamn|Ptcamn]]
* [[user:Marnen|Marnen]]
* [[User:Garzo|Garzo]]
* [[User:Abbruzzi|Abbruzzi]]
* [[User:Wikiacc|Wikiacc]]
* [[User:Peter Isotalo|Peter Isotalo]]: primarily Swedish
* [[User:Whimemsz|Whimemsz]]
* [[User:IceKarma|IceKarma]]
* [[User:Pablo-flores|Pablo D. Flores]]
* [[User:Conrad Leviston|Conrad Leviston]]
* [[User:Millosh|millosh*]] ([[:sr:Разговор са корисником:Милош|talk (sr:)]])
* [[User:Angr|Angr]]
* [[User:Benjaminb|Benjamin]]
* [[User:Martin.Budden|Martin]]
* [[User:Aleksei|Aleksei]]
* [[User:Moyogo|moyogo]]
* [[User:Newydd|newydd]]
* [[User:Ntennis|ntennis]] (mainly sign languages)
* [[User:Greatgavini|The Great Gavini]] (uh, does [[British language (Celtic)]] count?)
* [[User:Gailtb|Gailtb]]
* [[User:Straughn|Straughn]] Turkic and languages of the former USSR
* [[User:Enlil Ninlil|Enlil Ninlil]] English, German and Cantonese, also [[Indigenous Australian languages]]
* [[User:Christopher Sundita|Chris S.]] have done major edits to [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] & [[Kapampangan language|Kapampangan]]. Slowly working on other Philippine languages.
* [[User:Anupam|Anupam]] ([[Hindi]], [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]], and [[Urdu]])
* [[User:Maunus|Maunus]]
* [[User:Pruneau|Pruneau]]<sup>[[User talk:Pruneau|talk]]</sup>
* [[User:Ђорђе Д. Божовић|Djordje D. Bozovic]]
* [[User:Marialadouce|Marialadouce]]
* [[User:A R King|A R King]]
* [[User:A12n|A12n]] 20:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC) (African languages) (though like Mark I haven't been following a template, yet)
* [[User:Geoking66|Geoking66]]
* [[User:Yupik|Yupik]] (Mainly [[Sami languages]], but also [[Coptic language|Coptic]] and [[Old Nubian language|Old Nubian]])
* [[User:Surena|Surena]] ([[Iranian languages]]) 06:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
* [[User:Womtelo|Womtelo]] -- Languages of [[Melanesia]]
* [[User:WilliamThweatt]] -- Austronesian languages, Southeast Asian languages, Celtic languages, Slavic language
* [[User:Francisco Smith|Francisco Smith]]-- European languages particularly German, English and Spanish
* [[User:N-true|N-true]] — mainly Caucasian languages and perhaps also Khoisan languages and/or some Amerindian ones...
* [[User:trwier|trwier]] - Mainly Caucasian languages, as well as the Algonquian language family.
* [[User:Geoking66|Geoking66]]
* [[User:Sborsody|Sborsody]]
* [[User:Khanele|Khanele]] (Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian)
* [[User:Neranei|Neranei]]
* [[User:Ductape821|Ductape821]]
* [[User:*Kutaka(-lu)|*Kutaka(-lu)]] 20:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC) New Guinean and Australian languages, especially taxonomy and historical phonology.
* [[User:Michkalas|Michkalas]]
* [[User:Muckapedia|Muckapædia]] 15<sup>e</sup> mai 2007, 23h49 (UTC+0900) :: mostly orthographies and Canadian languages and dialects.
* '''[[User:Singularity|Sr]] [[User talk:Singularity|13]]''' Some French, very little Chinese and Hawaiian.
* [[User:MichelleG|MichelleG]]
* [[User:Moonbug|Moonbug]]
* [[User:dparvaz|Dan Parvaz]] - Semitic languages, Signed languages, Languages of the Middle East, Language and Gesture
* [[User:kk loach|kk_loach]]
* [[User:Tea and crumpets|Tea and crumpets]]
* [[User:Korenyuk|Korenyuk]] — [[Ukrainian language|Українська]], [http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Закарпатський_говір Закарпатський говір], [[Chechen language|Нохчийн]], [[Northern Sami|Davvisápmi]], [[Georgian language|ქართული]], [[Kazakh language|Қазақша]], [[bokmål]], [[Wolof language|Wolof]]; [[Lakota language|Lakĥoṫiyapi]], [[Kven language|kainunkieli]], [[Turkic languages]], [[Mongolic languages]] and some others ''(the first eight being either my [[First language|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")&nbsp;— as much as I would be able to, due to poor health reasons''
* [[User:Jckrull|Jckrull]]
* [[User:Polylerus|Polylerus]]
* [[User:Sahmeditor|<span style="color:#00CCCC;">Æe</span>]][[User:Sahmeditor/Signatures|<span style="color:#96DED1;">tlr</span>]] [[User talk:Sahmeditor|<span style="color:#B0E0E6;">Cre</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Sahmeditor|<span style="color:#00A693;">ejl</span>]] 01:33, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
* [[User:f-m-t|Francis Tyers]] [[User talk:f-m-t|·]]
* [[User:Jsferreira|Jsferreira]]  - Caribbean languages (official, indigenous, creole, immigrant)
* [[User:Jangari|Jangari]] - Australianist syntactician - non-pama-nyungan languages
* [[User:LiangHH|LiangHH]] - Chinese Mandarin, Spanish, German
* [[User:Landroving Linguist|Landroving Linguist]] - [[Languages of Ethiopia]]
* [[User:Akerbeltz|Akerbeltz]] - Goidelic, Amerindian
* [[User:JWB|JWB]] ([[User talk:JWB|talk]]) 02:34, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
* [[User:Robskin|Robskin]] - Ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, English, French, and my mother-tongue, Portuguese [[User:Robskin|Robskin]] ([[User talk:Robskin|talk]]) 05:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC).
* {{user|Aelffin}} - English, German, some Dutch, Frisian, Swedish, Icelandic, and other Germanic languages.
* [[User:TaivoLinguist|Taivo(Linguist)]] - Numic languages of Uto-Aztecan, phonologies of other languages, historical linguistics and classification.  I'm a linguistics professor
* [[User:Gr8opinionater|Gr8opinionater]]
* [[User:W Tanoto|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
* [[User:Umofomia|Umofomia]] - Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese)
* [[User:Hakeem.gadi|Hakeem.gadi]] ([[User talk:Hakeem.gadi|talk]]) 11:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC). [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Libyan Arabic]], [[English language|English]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]].
* {{User|Gimme danger}} - [[Standard Tibetan]] and related articles.
* {{User|Szfski}} - Semitic and Indo-European, especially Slavic and varieties of [[Arabic language|Arabic]]. Also dialects of American English.
* <u><span style="font-family:tahoma;">[[User:Danielaustinhall12|<span style="color:blue;">'''Danielaustinhall'''</span>]] [[User talk:Danielaustinhall12|<span style="color:gold;">'''12'''</span>]]</span></u> <small>(Go [[Michigan Wolverines|Wolverines]]!)</small></font> 20:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC) - understand Scots, know a little Middle English,  understand some Spanish
* {{User|Alton}}
* [[User:Faizhaider|Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider Rizvi]] ([[User talk:Faizhaider|talk]]) 14:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC), native speker of [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]],[[Awadhi language|Awadhi]],[[Urdu]],[[Hindi]]
* [[User:Hurmata|Hurmata]]
* [[User:Jomeara421|Jomeara421]] - Algonquian languages
* [[User:Dmitri Lytov|Dmitri Lytov]] - [[history of writing]], [[theoretical linguistics]], various languages, [[InterWiki]], multilingual articles
* [[User:Widsith|Widsith]] ([[User talk:Widsith|talk]]) 07:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
* [[User:Coldipa]] - South Slavic languages
* [[User:Vinsfan368]] Former Canadian, studying French
* [[User:C21K|C21K]] - mainly [[Kannada language|Kannada]],[[Tulu language|Tulu]] & [[Konkani language]]s
* [[User:Anypodetos|Anypodetos]] – mostly [[Proto-Indo-European language|PIE]]
* {{User|G Purevdorj}} - mainly [[Mongolic languages]]
* [[User:Jed 20012]]
* [[User:Iudaeus|Iudaeus]] ([[User talk:Iudaeus|talk]]) 01:15, 20 January 2009 (UTC) - I speak English and Spanish but my main interest is in Ethiopian (Omotic especially) languages.
* {{User|Woollymammoth}} [[User:Woollymammoth|Woollymammoth]] ([[User talk:Woollymammoth|talk]]) 16:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC) - I am interested in all Indo-European languages, primarily Slavic languages, and historical linguistics.
* [[User:Rayizmi|Rayizmi]]
* [[User:Auslli]]: [[Leonese language]], [[Romance languages]], European minority languages.
* [[User:Mysticienne]] French, Canadian French.
* [[User:VikSol|VikSol]]
* [[User:DAFMM|DAFMM]] ([[User talk:DAFMM#top|talk]] English, German, French and Latin, April 2009.
* [[User:Gaidheal1|Gaidheal1]]
* {{User|Oashi}} {{langx|cs|native}}, {{langx|pl|second, native-like}}, {{langx|sk|similar to native}}, {{langx|en|advanced (FCE)}}, {{langx|ru|moderate, passive (how to type it on my lat keaboard? ;)}} [[User:Oashi|Franta Oashi]] ([[User talk: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]] {{langx|en|native}}, {{langx|de|second, amateur}}, various others that I am not good at, but like.
* [[User: El estremeñu|El estremeñu]] {{langx|es|native}}, {{langx|de|amateur}}, {{langx|en|amateur}}, {{langx|ext|second}}. I know about Extremaduran language, Languages of Spain, Gazunese language, Romance languages. Learning Rapa Nui.
* [[User:Mo-Al|Mo-Al]] ([[User talk:Mo-Al|talk]]) 23:23, 9 August 2009 (UTC) [[Afro-Asiatic]] languages (especially [[Berber language]]s, [[Semitic language]]s), general phonology
* [[User:Basawala|Basawala]] ([[User talk:Basawala|talk]]) 20:27, 11 August 2009 (UTC) [[Hindi]], [[Urdu]], other [[Indo-Aryan languages]], some [[Turkic languages]], other things herer and there.
* [[User:île flottant|Île_flottante~Flotting island]] Native English, advanced French, intermediate German and very basic Swedish.
* [[User:Shushu]]: Native Russian, [[Slavic languages]], [[Russian language]], [[Morphology (linguistics)|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.
* [[User:MuffledThud|MuffledThud]] ([[User talk:MuffledThud|talk]]) 09:13, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
* [[User:AD Messing|AD Messing]]: Ancient Greek, Latin, French, German. Also familiar with PIE linguistics and cognitive linguistics.
* [[User:Erutuon|Erutuon]]: Attic and Homeric Greek, Latin; some Old Norse, Old English, Gothic, French, German, Arabic. Writing systems: Latin, Greek, Arabic, Tengwar, IPA.
* [[User:cuaxdon|Andrei]]: Taiwanese, Chinese, Russian and a little French.
* [[User:joshuajohnlee|joshuajohnlee]] : English, French, Russian, German, Swedish, Urdu. Writing systems including Cyrillic and Arabic text.
* [[User:GPHemsley|Gordon P. Hemsley]]: native [[American English|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.
* [[User:Franzose|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
* [[User:Munci|Munci]]: speak French and German, been learning a few others, interests in many
* [[User:Adavis444|Adavis444]]
* [[User:Kalich|<u><span style="border-bottom: 1px double#000; border-color:{{{2}}}">Kalich</span></u>]] 03:58, 27 August 2010 (UTC): native English speaker, working knowledge of Spanish; am a Mayan linguist (specifically working with Q'eqchi).
* [[User:Stevey7788|Stevey7788]] — English speaker working on various Amerindian and Asian languages. Familiar with a lot of comparative linguistics.
* [[User:Vihelik|Vihelik]] ([[User talk:Vihelik|talk]])
* [[User:Ano-User|Ano-User]] ([[User talk:Ano-User|talk]]) 04:11, 11 December 2010 (UTC): '''[[Languages of Oceania]]''': [[Austronesian languages]], [[Indigenous Australian languages]]
* [[User:Miniapolis|Miniapolis]] ([[User talk:Miniapolis|talk]]) Native English speaker; interested in French, Russian, Polish, Czech and Norwegian.
* {{User|Codrinb}} 05:34, 9 January 2011 (UTC) - Native [[Romanian language|Romanian]] speaker; interested in ancient [[Dacian language|Dacian]] and [[Thracian language|Thracian]]. Also interested in finding the truth about the controversial [[Dacian script]], [[Sinaia lead plates]] and [[Rohonc Codex]].
* {{User|MacedonianBoy}}
* {{user10|Nicky Nouse}}
* [[User:Chevil|chevil]]: English, Chinese, Thai; Sinitic, Hmong-Mien and Kra-Dai historical linguistics
* {{User|Zyztem2000}}: speaker of English, French, German; interests include nomenclature,classification & coding of the world's languages, and concept of the "linguasphere".
* [[User:Violarulez|Violarulez]]
* [[User:Knowing guy|Knowing guy]]
* [[User:Farrugiuh|Farrugiuh]]
* [[User:Suffolkdialect]] Primarily East Anglian dialects, but also all Gaelic Languages - Brezhoneg, Kernewek, Cymraeg, Gaidhlig, Gaeilge, Gaelg.
* [[User:Karlpopper91|Karlpopper91]]
* {{User|Stelpa}}
* --[[User:Jeneme|Jeneme]] ([[User talk:Jeneme|talk]]) 18:40, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
* [[User:Epf|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.
* [[User:Eofren/Esperantan paĝon|<span style="color:#FF6600;">Eo</span>]] [[User:Eofren/Page en français|<span style="color:#00FF00;">fr</span>]] [[User:Eofren|<span style="color:#FF0000;">en</span>]] ([[User talk:Eofren|talk]])  Native speaker of French. I'm trilingual and I speak French, English and Esperanto.
* {{User|Ebe123}} Native speaker of French; knows many languages.  ~~[[User:Ebe123|<span style="text-shadow:#9e6d3f 2px 2px 1px; color:#21421E; font-weight:bold;">Ebe</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Ebe123|<span style="color:#000000">123</span>]]~~ → <small><span class="nowrap">[[User talk:Ebe123|report]]</span></small> 21:09, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
* [[User:Cavallero|Cavallero]]
* [[User:Eisfbnore|Eisfbnore]] Native speaker of Norwegian; knows many other Germanic languages and some French and Japanese
* [[User:Piccolapixxie|Piccolapixxie]] ([[User talk: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.
* [[User:kjbinukj|binukj]].a post graduate in Linguistics, native speaker of Malayalam
* {{User4|luxemoxie}} is happy to help with anything.
* {{user|filelakeshoe}} - former English teacher, mainly interested in West Slavic languages
* {{user|iank125}} linguistics student.  Native AmE.  Advanced German knowledge, intermediate Mandarin.  Interested in Germanic and Sino-Tibetan languages, morphology, syntax, and phonology.
* {{user|Mordeaux}} Aspiring linguist. Interested in Italian Dialectology, Language Shift, and Linguistic Anthropology generally.
* {{user|Abrahamic Faiths}} - 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.
* {{user|Joeystanley}} Linguistics grad student. Native English speaker, fluent in Portuguese, studying Guarani.
* {{user|Qanada Ever}} 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. 
* [[User:Grosef25|Grosef25]]
* [[User:kim9988|Kim9988]]
* {{User|AlbertBickford}}: 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.
*[[User:Akifumii|Akifumii]] Canadian polyglot, professional translator 
*{{u|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.
*{{u|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. 
* [[User:MintyNinja41|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.
*{{u|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. 
*{{u|SynConlanger}}: postdoc researcher in linguistics (specialisation in phonetics and phonology).
*<span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">[[User:SMcCandlish|'''SMcCandlish''' ☺]] [[User talk:SMcCandlish|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|¢]] ≽<sup>ʌ</sup>ⱷ҅<sub>ᴥ</sub>ⱷ<sup>ʌ</sup>≼ </span> 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).
*{{u|Inter&anthro}}: studying linguistics in college, can understand English, Italian & Spanish. Know a tiny bit of [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] and [[Maya language|Maya]]. Mainly interested in languages of Asia and Americas but willing to work on anything.
*{{u|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.
*<span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">[[User:Vvven|Vvven ☺]] [[User talk:Vvven|☏]] [[Special:Contributions/Vvven|¢]]</span> 04:56, 24 October 2015 (UTC) Contributing largely creating and expanding many articles related with Spanish language
*[[User:Hamid Hassani|Hamid Hassani]] ([[User talk:Hamid Hassani|talk]]) 23:03, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
*{{u|Avgr8}}: Native speaker of Hindi and English.Know a bit of Sanskrit and French.Focussing on contributing towards hindi wikipedia articles.
*{{u|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.
*{{u|Iazyges}}: Native english, some understanding of chinese. Main focus is Romance languages.
*{{u|Paine Ellsworth}}: Language redirects – I apply {{tl|R from alternative language}} with its parameters that use [[WP:Template messages/Redirect language codes|ISO 639 language codes]] to appropriate redirects.  I work toward correctly tagging and categorizing every alternative language redirect.  Great 
*[[User:Zofthej|Zofthej]] ([[User talk: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. 
*[[User:Schwiiz|Schwiiz]] ([[User talk:Schwiiz|talk]]) 21:35, 6 March 2017 (UTC): Interest in Conlangs and Germanic languages primary. Small interest in Slavic and Romance languages also.
*[[WP:WikiGnome|gnome work]]!  As a page mover, I have also been involved as closer or participant in several language-oriented requested moves.
*[[User:DrHäxer|DrHäxer]] ([[User talk:DrHäxer|talk]]) 19:15, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
*{{u|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.[[User:Gdog1102|Gdog1102]] ([[User talk:Gdog1102|talk]]) 03:20, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
* [[User:TSP2000|TSP2000]] Researcher in Indo-European and Asian languages.
*[[User:Bluethailand]] Language researcher for Mainland Southeast Asia.
*[[User:vexthesmol|Faith]] ([[user talk:vexthesmol|talk]]) Interested in languages and communication. Native to English and learning French.
* [[User:Dbudell|Dbudell]] ([[User talk:Dbudell|talk]]) 19:35, 15 March 2018 (UTC) I'm a founding member of the [[Wikitongues]] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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!
* [[User:StephenJonesLinguistics|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.
* [[User:Eliyili00|Eliyili00]]: Native English speaker. Advanced in Mandarin and Spanish, beginner in French and Modern Standard Arabic. Prospective linguistics major.
* {{User|Esmost}}: Native speaker of [[English language|English]], [[Urdu]], and [[Persian language|Farsi]], proficient in [[French language|French]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]], and currently learning [[Turkish language|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.
* [[User:Anarhistička Maca|Anarhistička Maca]] Native English speaker, some proficiency in [[Croatian language|Croatian]] and [[Spanish language|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.
* [[User:Masjawad99|<span title="my user page">'''<span style="color:#0000FF">Masjawad99</span>'''</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:Masjawad99|<span title="my talk page">💬</span>]]</sup> 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.
* {{User|Soumya-8974}}
* {{User|Bob not snob}}
* {{User|Noahfgodard}} 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.
* [[User:Shayvory|Shayvory]] ([[User talk:Shayvory|talk]]) 21:34, 1 April 2020 (UTC) Interested in developing Antillean Creole pages, . Native English-speaker, fluent French-speaker.
* {{User|Skoulikomirmigotripa}} Native [[English language|English]], advanced [[Greek language|Greek]], and a very basic understanding of [[German language|German]]. Interested largely in bringing more order to the various Greek language pages, also interested in expanding those pages of endangered languages like [[Pennsylvania German language|Pennsylvania Dutch]] or [[Tsakonian language|Tsakonian]].
* {{User|Zhen Zhen}}
* {{User|Calbow}} Interested in Indigenous Australian languages, as well as tracking the status of endangered/extinct/reviving languages.
* {{User|Samtelson}} Native speaker of [[English language|English]], [[Urdu]], [[Hindi]], and [[Marathi Language|Marathi]]. Fluent in [[French language|French]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[German language|German]], and [[Turkish language|Turkish]]. Currently learning [[Persian language|Farsi]], [[Bengali language|Bangla]] and [[Malayalam]]. Interested in contributing to South-East Asian languages.
* {{User|Kdtbhl}} Speaks [[English language|English]] natively; is a linguist who works on [[Finnish language|Finnish]] and [[Central Alaskan Yup'ik language|Yup'ik]].
* {{User|LittleCuteSuit}} Native English speaker, learning Chinese.
* {{User|TheRealGrantma}} Native [[English language|English]] speaker, learning [[Spanish language|Spanish]].
* {{User|Esmost}}
* {{User|Okonomiyaki39}} Fluent in [[American English]] and [[Hawaiian Pidgin]]. Learning [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]]. I'm also interested in historical linguistics.
* {{User|Boynamedsue}} 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.
* {{User|Erinius}} Interested in English and Spanish linguistics, dialectology, phonology
* {{user|DaniloDaysOfOurLives}} I study Ancient Languages at University and am learning several modern ones which you can see on my userpage 😊
*{{user|Quanstizium}} 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. [[User:Quanstizium|Quanstizium]] ([[User talk:Quanstizium|talk]]) 21:52, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
*{{User|SuperNova422}} 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.
*{{User|Vis M}} ([[Malayalam]] (Native), English, Hindi) I actively volunteer at [[:d:WD:LD|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
*{{User|Jack4897}} (English (Native), French, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch) I'm interested in world linguistics.
*{{User|Hwqaksd}}
*{{User|Saturn star}} English is my first language and I know French but am far from fluent, and so far very basic Spanish.
*[[User:NorthWu|NorthWu]] ([[User talk:NorthWu|talk]]) 22:42, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
* [[User:FishandChipper|FishandChipper]] ([[User talk: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.
* {{User|MichaelTheSlav}} 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!
* {{User|Rainako}}
* {{User|Dhoru 21}} Native [[Maldivian language|Dhivehi]] speaker, fluent in English and interested in languages
* {{User|Anlztrk}}
* {{User|Austronesier}}
* {{User|Chernorizets}} 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.
* {{User|1RightSider}} - German, English, and bits of others.
* {{User|Ashertheaxolotl}} Interested in writing systems, the language I speak are on my user page
* {{User|WanderingMorpheme}}
* {{User|Anotaomo}} Native [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] talker, wants to know languages
* {{User|GMFinnegan}}
* {{User|Ansony89}} 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.
* {{user|Kepler-1229b}}
* {{user|PharyngealImplosive7}}
* {{user|Carnby}} Italian linguist, interested in phonetics, Italian dialects and regional languages
* {{user|Moon of Mercury}} Experience with language and linguistics. Some ability with Turkish, Germany, Spanish.
* {{user|Xiphoid Vigour}}
* {{user|Alxeedo}} 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.
* {{user|Grumpylawnchair}} Slavic languages, espicially smaller and endangered ones
* {{user|Pineapple Storage}}: 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 language]]s.

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