List of language proficiency tests

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The following is a non-exhaustive list of standardized tests that assess a person's language proficiency of a foreign/secondary language. Various types of such exams exist per many languages—some are organized at an international level even through national authoritative organizations, while others simply for specific limited business or study orientation.

Contents

Multilingual

Albanian

American Sign Language

Arabic

Brazilian Sign Language

British Sign Language

Bulgarian

Catalan

Chinese

Mandarin

Cantonese

Hokkien

Hakka

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Esperanto

Estonian

Finnish

French

French Sign Language

Galician

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

According to the Ministero degli Esteri (Italian Foreign Affairs), there are four officials Italian certifications approved CLIQ (Certificato di Lingua Italiana di Qualità): CILS, CELI, PLIDA and .IT ROMA TRE

Japanese

Japanese Sign Language

Kazakh

Klingon

Korean

Kurmanji

Kyrgyz

Latin

Latvian

Lithuanian

Luxembourgish

Malay

Mongolian

Myanmar (Burmese)

Norwegian

  • Norskprøve 2 for voksne innvandrere - Level A2;
  • Norskprøve 3 for voksne innvandrere - Level B1;
  • Test i norsk - høyere nivå - Advanced Level (Bergenstesten).

Pashto

Persian

Polish

  • B1 – basic;
  • B2 – general intermediate;
  • C2 – advanced.

Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese

European Portuguese

  • ACESSO - Certificado acesso ao português (Level A1)
  • CIPLE - Certificado inicial de português língua estrangeira (Level A2)
  • DEPLE - Diploma elementar de português língua estrangeira (Level B1)
  • DIPLE - Diploma intermédio de português língua estrangeira (Level B2)
  • DAPLE - Diploma avançado de português língua estrangeira (Level C1)
  • DUPLE - Diploma universitário de português língua estrangeira (Level C2)

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

Slovak

Slovene

Spanish

Spanish Sign Language

Swedish

Tamil

Thai

Turkish

Uyghur

Vietnamese

Welsh

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