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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.
If you've been searching for languages that start with H, you'll find 11 detailed languages below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
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List of Languages That Start With H
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Hakka
A Sinitic language of the dispersed Hakka people — historically labelled "guest families" — spoken across southern China, Taiwan, and a wide diaspora.
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Hausa
A Chadic language and one of Africa's largest lingua francas — spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, and as a trade language throughout West Africa.
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Hawaiian
A Polynesian language indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands — one of two official languages of the State of Hawaii, undergoing dramatic revitalization since the 1980s.
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Hawaiian Sign Language
An indigenous sign language of the Hawaiian Islands — only recently documented and likely the last surviving member of its language family.
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Hebrew
A Northwest Semitic language with biblical roots — the official language of Israel, revived from liturgical use into a thriving modern vernacular in the 19th–20th centuries.
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Hindi
An Indo-Aryan language written in Devanagari and one of India's two official languages — the standardized form of a dialect continuum spoken across the Hindi Belt of northern India.
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Hittite
The earliest attested Indo-European language — spoken in Bronze Age Anatolia and rediscovered in the 20th century from cuneiform archives at Hattusa.
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Hmong
A Hmong-Mien language spoken in southern China, Vietnam, Laos, and the diaspora — about 4 million speakers, with major communities in the United States after Indochina wars.
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Hopi
A Uto-Aztecan language of northeastern Arizona — spoken by the Hopi Tribe on the Hopi Reservation surrounded by the Navajo Nation.
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Hungarian
A Uralic language stranded among Indo-European neighbors in Central Europe — Hungary's official language, with rich agglutinative morphology and vowel harmony.
About languages starting with H
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