Literature/Catalogs

List of literatures
One scholar says there are 106 languages with significant literatures: 78 living and 28 dead. Others might disagree with some details.

Living
This means that significant literature continues to be written. Arranged by number of native speakers.


 * Chinese
 * English
 * Spanish
 * Russian
 * Hindi
 * Malay
 * Japanese
 * Bengali
 * German
 * Arabic
 * Portuguese
 * French
 * Italian
 * Urdu
 * Ukrainian
 * Tamil
 * Korean
 * Telugu
 * Marathi
 * Polish
 * Turkish
 * Vietnamese
 * Punjabi
 * Gujarati
 * Thai
 * Persian
 * Kannada
 * Dutch
 * Roumanian
 * Rajastani
 * Malayalam
 * Serbo-Croat
 * Oriya
 * Burmese
 * Hungarian
 * Tagalog
 * Pushtu
 * Swahili
 * Belarussian
 * Czech
 * Nepali
 * Swedish
 * Greek
 * Ethiopian
 * Sinhalese
 * Bulgarian
 * Provençal
 * Tibetan
 * Assamese
 * Catalan
 * Sindhi
 * Malagasy
 * Danish
 * Afrikaans
 * Slovak
 * Armenian
 * Norwegian
 * Finnish
 * Cambodian
 * Kashmiri
 * Georgian
 * Lithuanian
 * Latvian
 * Galician
 * Hebrew
 * Albanian
 * Mongolian
 * Estonian
 * Yiddish
 * Basque
 * Frisian
 * Icelandic
 * Irish
 * Maltese
 * Romansh
 * Slovenian
 * Sorbian
 * Khasi

Dead
This means no significant literature is being produced nowadays, though some of these languages are still spoken.


 * Babylonian
 * Breton
 * Cakchiquel
 * Cherokee
 * Chontal
 * Cornish
 * Egyptian
 * Etruscan
 * Gothic
 * Hittite
 * Ilocano
 * Irish
 * Javanese
 * Ladino
 * Latin
 * Madurese
 * Manchu
 * Manx
 * Nahuatl
 * Prakrit (including Pali)
 * Quechua
 * Quiché
 * Sanskrit
 * Saxon
 * Scottish
 * Sumerian
 * Syriac
 * Welsh
 * Yucatec