Languages that end with E

List of Languages That End With E

1

Assamese

An Indo-Aryan language and the official tongue of Assam in northeastern India — closely related to Bengali, with about 15 million native speakers.

2

Basque

A language isolate spoken in the western Pyrenees — a linguistic mystery with no proven relatives, predating the arrival of Indo-European languages in Europe.

3

Burmese

A Sino-Tibetan language and the official tongue of Myanmar — written in a rounded Brahmic script and spoken by about 33 million people as a first language.

4

Cherokee

An Iroquoian language indigenous to the southeastern United States — written in an indigenous syllabary invented by Sequoyah in 1821.

5

Cree

An Algonquian language of the Canadian boreal forests and plains — the largest indigenous language group of Canada, with about 96,000 speakers and a unique syllabic script.

6

Faroese

A North Germanic language of the Faroe Islands — closely related to Icelandic, spoken by about 72,000 people in the autonomous territory of Denmark.

7

Haitian Creole

A French-based creole and the most widely spoken creole language in the world — Haiti's co-official language alongside French, spoken by virtually all 12 million Haitians.

8

Hawaiian Sign Language

An indigenous sign language of the Hawaiian Islands — only recently documented and likely the last surviving member of its language family.

9

Hittite

The earliest attested Indo-European language — spoken in Bronze Age Anatolia and rediscovered in the 20th century from cuneiform archives at Hattusa.

10

Japanese

A Japonic language spoken by about 125 million people in Japan — written in a hybrid script combining Chinese characters with two indigenous syllabaries.

11

Javanese

An Austronesian language spoken by 82 million people on the Indonesian island of Java — famous for its elaborate speech levels marking social hierarchy.

12

Mandarin Chinese

The world's most-spoken first language, based on the Beijing dialect and codified as Standard Chinese (Putonghua) — the official language of mainland China, Taiwan, and Singapore.

13

Marshallese

A Micronesian language of the Marshall Islands — co-official with English in the central Pacific atoll nation.

14

Ojibwe

A Central Algonquian language spoken across the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada — one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in North America.

15

Old Norse

The North Germanic language of the Viking Age — ancestor of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish — and the language of the Eddas and sagas.

16

Plains Cree

The largest dialect of Cree — a Central Algonquian language spoken across the Canadian prairies from Alberta to Manitoba.

17

Portuguese

A Romance language born in the Iberian northwest and spread by maritime empire — today the official language of Portugal, Brazil, and several African and Asian states.

18

Slovene

A South Slavic language and Slovenia's official tongue — notable for preserving the rare grammatical dual number, used for exactly two of something.

19

Vietnamese

An Austroasiatic language spoken by about 85 million people — Vietnam's national language, written in a Latin-based script designed by 17th-century missionaries.

20

Wu Chinese

A major Sinitic branch centered on Shanghai and the lower Yangtze — its best-known variety, Shanghainese, has about 14 million speakers and a notable tonal system.

21

Yue Chinese (Cantonese)

A southern Chinese branch centered on Guangzhou and Hong Kong — famous for preserving more tones and finals than Mandarin and for its prolific role in global Cantonese pop culture.