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List of languages

Ancient languages

Tier 1

Egyptian
Sumerian
Canaanite
Akkadian
Eblaite
Elamite

Tier 2

Hurrian
Hittite
Palaic
Mycenaean Greek

Tier 3

Luwian
Hattic
Ugaritic
Old Chinese
Phoenician
Aramaic
Hebrew or Phoenician
Ammonite
Moabite
Urartian
Phrygian
Sabaean (Old South Arabian)
Etruscan
Latin
Lydian
Carian
Faliscan
Umbrian
Taymanitic
South Picene
Venetic
Old Persian
Lepontic
Oscan
Gaulish
Volscian
Prakrit (Middle Indo-Aryan)
Old Tamil
Meroitic
Numidian
Celtiberian
Parthian
Sanskrit
Bactrian
Proto-Norse
Mayan
Sogdian
Arabic
Ge’ez
Cham
Gothic
Tocharian B
Georgian
Kannada
Armenian

Post-classical/Medieval languages

Tier 4

Old Dutch
Old High German
Telugu
Korean
Khmer
Old Japanese
Old Udi
Old Malay
Tumshuqese and Khotanese Saka
Beja
Pyu
Old English
Old Turkic
Old Irish
Old Tibetan
Breton
Old Frisian

Tier 5

Old Norse
Old Javanese
Malayalam
Old Welsh
Old French
Balinese
Old Occitan
Asturleonese
Italian
Khitan
Old Church Slavonic
Konkani/Marathi
Romansh
Slovene
Serbian
Old East Slavic
Navarro-Aragonese (Aragonese) and Basque
Catalan
Mozarabic
Croatian
Ossetian
Irish
Burmese
Newar
Jurchen
Middle Dutch
Galician-Portuguese
Bosnian
Old Hungarian

Tier 6

Spanish
Finnic
Czech
Mongolian
Punjabi
Cornish
Kashmiri
Old Polish
Yiddish
Western Lombard
Thai
Tigrinya
Oghuz Turkic (including Azeri and Ottoman Turkish)
Old Prussian
Komi
Bengali, Assamese and other Bengali-Assamese languages
Vietnamese
Albanian
Finnish
Maltese
Yi
Tulu

Modern languages

Tier 7

Lithuanian
Belarusian
Romanian
Latvian
Estonian
Modern Portuguese
Sylheti
Classical Nahuatl
Standard Dutch
Wastek
Kikongo
Ukrainian
Tagalog
Classical Quechua
Buginese
Manx
Pite Sami

Tier 8

Ternate
Guarani
Ubykh, Abkhaz, Adyghe and Mingrelian
Pashto
Massachusett
Tunisian Arabic
Seri
Hausa
Língua Geral of São Paulo
Swahili
Northern Sami
Greenlandic
Chinese Pidgin English
Haitian Creole

Tier 9

Sydney language
Afrikaans
Inuktitut
Tswana
Cherokee
Maori
Aleut
Xhosa
Vai
Sotho
Zulu
Lule Sami
Santali
Sakha (Yakut)
Inari Sami
Gamilaraay
Venda
Kildin Sami
Mirandese
Skolt Sami
Carrier
Motu
Guugu Yimidhirr

Constructed languages

Volapük
Esperanto

Tier 10

Galela
Oromo
Lingala
Istro-Romanian
Kamoro
Southern Ndebele
Gooniyandi

Constructed languages

Ido
Quenya
Novial
Sona
Interglossa
Interlingua
Loglan
Klingon
Lojban
Slovio
Atlantean
Na’va
Dothraki
Kiliki

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