Fields of Linguistics
Language Families
Endangered Languages
Largest Languages
Conlangs
100
The field that studies articulation and acoustics of speech sounds.
Phonetics
100
This sub-family of Indo-European contains French, Spanish, Catalan, Romanian, and Romansch.
Romance
100
The speakers of this language call it "Gaeilge".
Irish / Irish Gaelic
100
The most-spoken language other than English in the United States.
Spanish
100
JRR Tolkien created this language, one form of which is called Quenya, before he began writing The Lord of the Rings.
Elvish
200
The field that studies the structure of sentences.
Syntax
200
This sub-family of Indo-European contains Irish, Breton, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and Cornish.
Celtic
200
This Germanic language spoken by Ashkenazi Jews gave us the English words for Bagel and Lox
Yiddish
200
The world language with the largest number of native speakers.
Mandarin
200
Marc Okrand developed this language for Star Trek with features that make it as unlike human languages as possible.
Klingon
300
The field that studies the meaning of utterances in context.
Pragmatics
300
This sub-family of Indo-European contains Hindi/Urdu, Bengali, Persian, and Romani.
Aryan or Indo-Iranian
300
If you go down under you'll hear the popular greeting "kia ora" which comes from this Polynesian language
Māori
300
The world language with the largest total number of speakers.
English
300
David J. Peterson created High Valyrian and Dothraki for this television series.
Game of Thrones
400
The field that studies how sounds are organized in the mind.
Phonology
400
This sub-family of Niger-Congo contains Swahili, Lingala, Zulu and Xhosa.
Bantu
400
This language spoken in Spain and France is unrelated to any known languages.
Basque
400
The Native American language with the largest number of speakers in the United States.
Navajo
400
Created by L.L. Zamenhof in 1887, this is the world’s most widely spoken conlang, and likely the only one with native speakers.
Esperanto
500
The field that studies how language varies and changes.
Sociolinguistics
500
This sub-family of Sino-Tibetan contains Mandarin, Wu, Min, Xiang, Gan, Jin, Hakka and Yue.
Sinitic or Chinese
500
The script of this Native American language was developed by Sequoyah, who could not read English or Greek but was inspired by their alphabets.
Cherokee
500
After Spanish, the language with the largest number of students enrolled at DePaul.
Japanese
500
This language was created by the Logical Language Group to construct a perfectly logical language that is syntactically unambiguous.
Lojban