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Ido
A reformed version of Esperanto created in 1907 to address perceived flaws — the most significant Esperanto offshoot, with a small but persistent community.
If you've been searching for languages that start with I, you'll find 8 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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Table of contents
| Ido | Igbo | Indonesian | Interlingua |
| Inuktitut | Iranian Persian (Farsi) | Irish | Italian |
List of Languages That Start With I
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Igbo
A Niger-Congo language of southeastern Nigeria — spoken by about 30 million people and one of Nigeria's three official "majority" languages.
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Indonesian
A standardized form of Malay and the national language of Indonesia — a deliberate lingua franca for the world's fourth-most-populous country, with about 200 million speakers.
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Interlingua
A naturalistic auxiliary language compiled in 1951 from the shared Romance and Latinate vocabulary of major European languages — readable on first sight by their speakers.
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Inuktitut
An Inuit language spoken across the Canadian Arctic — co-official in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, written in both Latin and Canadian Aboriginal syllabics.
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Iranian Persian (Farsi)
A Western Iranian language and the official language of Iran — successor to Old and Middle Persian, written in a modified Arabic script and source of much vocabulary across the Islamic world.
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Irish
A Celtic language and the national language of Ireland — taught in all Irish schools, though daily speakers number only about 70,000 in the Gaeltacht regions.
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Italian
A Romance language descended from Tuscan dialects of the late medieval period — Italy's national language and one of four official languages of Switzerland.
About languages starting with I
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