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Tagalog (Filipino)
An Austronesian language and the basis for Filipino, the national language of the Philippines — spoken natively by about 28 million people and as a second language by most Filipinos.
If you've been searching for languages that start with T, you'll find 14 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.
For languages, that means family, writing scripts, native range, speaker counts, and status.
List of Languages That Start With T
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Tahitian
A Polynesian language indigenous to French Polynesia — co-official with French, and the basis for much of the global vocabulary of Polynesia (such as "tattoo" from tatau).
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Tamil
A Dravidian language with one of the world's longest continuous literary traditions — official in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, and Singapore, with about 78 million native speakers.
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Tatar
A Turkic language of the Tatar people in Russia — the official language of Tatarstan, spoken by about 5 million people.
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Telugu
A Dravidian language of southeastern India spoken by about 96 million people — official in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, with a rich classical literary tradition.
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Thai
A Tai-Kadai language and the official tongue of Thailand — tonal, with five distinct tones and a Brahmic-derived script not separated by spaces between words.
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Tibetan
A Sino-Tibetan language and the traditional language of Tibet — written in a Brahmic script developed in the 7th century, with about 6 million speakers.
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Tigrinya
A Semitic language of Eritrea and northern Ethiopia — written in Geʽez script and closely related to Amharic and the ancient Geʽez liturgical language.
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Tok Pisin
An English-based creole and one of the three official languages of Papua New Guinea — the lingua franca for a country of over 800 languages.
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Toki Pona
A minimalist constructed language created by Sonja Lang in 2001 — with only about 120 root words, designed to encourage simple, mindful expression.
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Tongan
A Polynesian language and the official tongue of the Kingdom of Tonga — a sister language to Samoan within the Polynesian family.
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Turkish
The most spoken Turkic language and the official language of Turkey — famous for vowel harmony and a relentlessly suffixing morphology.
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Turkmen
A Turkic language and the official tongue of Turkmenistan — closely related to Turkish and Azerbaijani, with about 7 million speakers.
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Twi
The most widely spoken member of the Akan dialect continuum in Ghana — particularly the Asante and Akuapem varieties.
About languages starting with T
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