There are many forms of language in the world. The first thing everyone thinks of is a language within linguistics such as Turkish, English, Czech, Spanish, etc. You can think of language as a body organ, sign language, but also programming languages.
According to reliable sources, there are around 700 programming languages, including esoteric coding languages. The first modern programming language ALGOL was originally developed in the mid-fifties of the twentieth century, which significantly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for describing the algorithm. To give an idea, the number of spoken languages is estimated at around 6,500. It is necessary to realize that the speed of the development of programming languages is stunning.
How do we define a programming language?
A programming language is an artificial language, a vocabulary and a set of grammar rules for instilling a computer or computer device to perform specific tastks. Computers do not understand spoken languages like English, Turkish, and other spoken languages. Each programming language has a unique set of keywords and a special syntax for organizing programming instructions. It is a transient way of communciation, which we call programming languages.
There are a number of programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, and Coffeescript; Python and Ruby; C, C ++, C #, and Target-C; Cobol, ALGOL 58, ALGOL 60, ALGOL 68, ALGOL W, and BASIC; Fortran, Assembly, and Machine Language. It seems to be a list of programming languages, but there are some exceptions.
What about markup and query languages?
HTML is a markup language that allows you to comment on content for viewing in a web browser. Most people do not consider this to be a programming language because it does not actually contain instructions and does not support basic functions, such as conditional statements.
SQL is a query language that allows you to structure a request for data from a database. Query languages work differently from standard programming languages, such as Python or Ruby, but not so differently that they are usually excluded from the list of programming languages.
What about esoteric languages?
And now we come to one of the strange phenomena that came from the programming community: entire languages based on jokes, obsessions, and the overwhelming sense of the programmer's desire to push the boundaries of their technology. Esoteric languages are often real programming languages, yet they are excluded from the list of programming languages because they are not all really intended to be used in development. Examples are binary Lambda Calculus or Malbolge.
Binary Lambda Calculus is an esoteric language designed to be as dense as possible, and each program is written to require as few characters as possible. Malbolge was designed to be as difficult as possible, with programs that inherently self-edit and effects that depend on where the instruction is stored in computer memory.
Surely you know that counting programming languages will not be so easy and their numbers will vary according to who you ask. There were several different responses to Quora, with the most upvoted response giving a list of 268, while the second most upvoted response gave a list of nearly 700. So we can say that there are at least a few hundred and maybe even a thousand programming languages. Moreover, due to the rapid development of new languages, including esoteric languages, we may not be able to provide a more accurate figure in the future.