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Kannada
A Dravidian language and the official tongue of Karnataka — spoken by about 44 million people and one of India's six classical languages, with a literary history stretching back 1,500 years.
If you've been searching for languages that start with K, you'll find 10 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 K
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Kazakh
A Turkic language and the official language of Kazakhstan — about 13 million speakers, transitioning from Cyrillic to a Latin-based script by 2025.
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Khmer
An Austroasiatic language and the official tongue of Cambodia — written in a Brahmic-derived script and notable for not being tonal, unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors.
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Kinyarwanda
A Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda — spoken by virtually all 13 million Rwandans and shared with related dialects in Uganda and DR Congo.
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Klingon
A constructed language created by linguist Marc Okrand for the Star Trek franchise — the most fully developed and widely spoken of all fictional languages.
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Korean
A language isolate spoken by about 80 million people across the Korean peninsula and its diaspora — written in Hangul, an alphabet designed for it in the 15th century.
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Krio
An English-based creole that is the lingua franca of Sierra Leone — descended from the speech of freed Africans resettled in Freetown from the late 18th century.
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Kurdish (Kurmanji)
The most widely spoken Kurdish variety — a Northwestern Iranian language used by Kurds in Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq, Armenia, and the diaspora.
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Kurdish (Sorani)
The Central Kurdish variety — official in Iraqi Kurdistan and widely used in western Iran — written in a modified Arabic script.
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Kyrgyz
A Turkic language and the official tongue of Kyrgyzstan — closely related to Kazakh, with about 5 million speakers.
About languages starting with K
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