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| Click here to see alphabatical listing of languages, and the countries in which they are commonly spoken. |
| Alphabetical listing of countries, and the languages spoken there. |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
| Afghanistan: Pashtu, Afghan Persian (Dari), Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai), (much bilingualism) |
| Albania: Albanian (Tosk official dialect), Greek |
| Algeria: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects |
| American Samoa: Samoan (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), English (mostly bilingual) |
| Andorra: Catalan (official), French, Castilian |
| Angola: Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages |
| Anguilla: English (official) |
| Antigua and Barbuda: English (official), local dialects |
| Argentina: Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French |
| Armenia: Armenian, Russian and other languages |
| Aruba: Dutch (official), Papiamento (a Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English dialect), English (widely spoken), Spanish |
| Australia: English, native languages |
| Austria: German |
| Azerbaijan: Azeri, Russian, Armenian and other languages |
| Bahamas, (The): English, Creole (among Haitian immigrants) |
| Bahrain: Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu |
| Bangladesh: Bangla (official), English |
| Barbados: English |
| Belarus: Byelorussian, Russian and other languages |
| Belgium: Dutch, French, German (legally bilingual) |
| Belize: English (official), Spanish, Mayan, Garifuna (Carib), Creole |
| Benin: French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in the south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in the north) |
| Bermuda: English (official), Portuguese |
| Bhutan: Dzongkha (official), Bhotes (various Tibetan dialects), Nepalese (various Nepalese dialects) |
| Bolivia: Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara (official) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian |
| Botswana: English (official), Setswana |
| Brazil: Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French |
| British Virgin Islands: English (official) |
| Brunei: Malay (official), English, Chinese |
| Bulgaria: Bulgarian, other secondary ethnic dialects |
| Burkina Faso: French (official), other native African languages of Sudanic family |
| Burma: Burmese, other minority ethnic languages |
| Burundi: Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area) |
| Cambodia: Khmer (official), French, English |
| Cameroon: English (official), French (official), other African languages |
| Canada: English (official), French (official), other minority ethnic languages |
| Cape Verde: Portuguese, Crioulo (a blend of Portuguese and West African words) |
| Cayman Islands: English |
| Central African Republic: French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), Arabic, Hunsa, Swahili |
| Chad: French (official), Arabic (official), Sara and Sango (in south), numerous other languages and dialects |
| Chile: Spanish |
| China: Standard Chinese or Mandarin, Putonghua (Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, other minority languages |
| Christmas Island: English, Chinese, Malay |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands: English, Malay |
| Colombia: Spanish |
| Comoros: Arabic (official), French (official), Comoran (a blend of Swahili and Arabic) |
| Congo: French (official), Lingala (and other local languages and dialects), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba, Monokutuba |
| Cook Islands: English (official), Maori |
| Costa Rica: Spanish (official), English |
| Cote d'Ivoire: French (official), Dioula, other native dialects |
| Croatia: Croatian, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German |
| Cuba: Spanish |
| Cyprus: Greek, Turkish, English |
| Czech Republic: Czech |
| Denmark: Danish, English, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German |
| Djibouti: French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar |
| Dominica: English (official), French patois |
| Dominican Republic: Spanish |
| Ecuador: Spanish (official), Amerindian languages, Quechua |
| Egypt: Arabic (official), English, French |
| El Salvador: Spanish, Nahua, Amerindian languages |
| Equatorial Guinea: Spanish (official), French (official), pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo |
| Eritrea: Afar, Amharic, Arabic, Tigre and Kunama, Tigrinya, other Cushitic languages |
| Estonia: Estonian (official), Russian, Ukrainian, English, Finnish, other languages |
| Ethiopia: Amharic, Tigrinya, Orominga, Guaraginga, Somali, Arabic, English, other local languages |
| Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): English |
| Faroe Islands: Faroese, Danish |
| Fiji: English (official), Fijian, Hindustani |
| Finland: Finnish (official), Swedish (official), Lapp, Russian |
| France: French, other regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish) |
| French Guiana: French |
| French Polynesia: French (official), Tahitian (official) |
| Gabon: French (official), Fang, Myene, Bateke, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi |
| Gambia: English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars |
| Georgia: Georgian (official), Russian, Armenian, Azeri, Abkhaz (official in Abkhazia) and other languages |
| Germany: German |
| Ghana: English (official), African languages (including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga) |
| Gibraltar: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian |
| Greece: Greek (official), English, French |
| Greenland: Greenlandic (East Inuit), Danish, English |
| Grenada: English (official), French patois |
| Guadeloupe: French (official), Creole patois |
| Guam: English, Chamorro, Japanese |
| Guatemala: Spanish, Amerindian languages (including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, and Xinca) |
| Guernsey: English, French, Norman-French dialect |
| Guinea: French (official), other ethnic group languages |
| Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese (official), Crioulo, other African languages |
| Guyana: English, Creole, Hindi, Urdu, Amerindian dialects |
| Haiti: French (official), Creole (official) |
| Holy See (Vatican City): Italian, Latin, other languages |
| Honduras: Spanish, Amerindian dialects |
| Hong Kong: Chinese (Cantonese), English (both official) |
| Hungary: Hungarian and other languages |
| Iceland: Icelandic |
| India: English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit, Hindustani, numerous other languages and dialects |
| Indonesia: Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay), English, Dutch, Javanese, local dialects |
| Iran: Persian and Persian dialects, Turkic and Turkic dialects, Kurdish, Luri, Balochi, Arabic, Turkish and other languages |
| Iraq: Arabic, Kurdish, Assyrian, Armenian |
| Ireland: English, Irish (Gaelic) |
| Israel: Hebrew (official), Arabic, English |
| Italy: Italian (official), German, Slovene |
| Jamaica: English, Creole |
| Japan: Japanese |
| Jersey: English (official), French (official), Norman-French dialect |
| Jordan: Arabic (official), English |
| Kazakhstan: Kazakh (Qazaq, state language), Russian (official) |
| Kenya: English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous other local languages |
| Kiribati: English (official), Gilbertese |
| Korea, North: Korean |
| Korea, South: Korean, English |
| Kuwait: Arabic (official), English |
| Kyrgyzstan: Kirghiz (Kyrgyz, official), Russian (official) |
| Laos: Lao (official), French, English, various ethnic languages |
| Latvia: Lettish (official), Lithuanian, Russian and other languages |
| Lebanon: Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian |
| Lesotho: Sesotho (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa |
| Liberia: English (official) and other ethnic languages |
| Libya: Arabic, Italian, English |
| Liechtenstein: German (official), Alemannic dialect |
| Lithuania: Lithuanian (official), Polish, Russian |
| Luxembourg: Luxembourgian, German, French, English |
| Macau: Portuguese, Chinese (Cantonese) |
| Macedonia, (The Former Yugoslav Republic of): Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian and other languages |
| Madagascar: French (official), Malagasy (official) |
| Malawi: English (official), Chichewa (official) and other languages |
| Malaysia: Bahasa Melayu (official), English, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai, Iban and Kadazan |
| Maldives: Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala), English |
| Mali: French (official), Bambara, numerous African languages |
| Malta: Maltese (official), English (official) |
| Man, (Isle of): English, Manx Gaelic |
| Marshall Islands: English (official), Marshallese dialects, Japanese |
| Martinique: French, Creole patois |
| Mauritania: Hasaniya Arabic (official), Pular, Soninke, Wolof (official), French |
| Mauritius: English (official), Creole, French, Hindi, Urdu, Hakka, Bojpoori |
| Mayotte: Mahorian (a Swahili dialect), French (official language) |
| Mexico: Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional indigenous languages |
| Micronesia, (Federated States of): English (official and common language), trukese, Pohnpeian, Yapese, Korean |
| Moldova: Moldovian (official, virtually the same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect) |
| Monaco: French (official), English, Italian, Monegasque |
| Mongolia: Khalkha Mongol, Turkic, Russian |
| Montserrat: English |
| Morocco: Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French |
| Mozambique: Portuguese (official) and other indigenous dialects |
| Namibia: English (official), Afrikaans, German, Oshivambo, Herero, Nama |
| Nauru: Nauruan (official), English |
| Nepal: Nepali (official) and many other languages and dialects |
| Netherlands: Dutch |
| Netherlands Antilles: Dutch (official), Papiamento (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect), English, Spanish |
| New Caledonia: French (official), Melanesian-Polynesian dialects |
| New Zealand: English (official), Maori |
| Nicaragua: Spanish (official), English and indigenous languages |
| Niger: French (official), Hausa, Djerma |
| Nigeria: English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani |
| Niue: Polynesian closely related to Tongan and Samoan, English |
| Norfolk Island: English (official), Norfolk (a mixture of 18th century English and ancient Tahitian) |
| Northern Mariana Islands: English, Chamorro, Carolinian |
| Norway: Norwegian (official), Lapp, Finnish |
| Oman: Arabic (official), English, Baluchi, Urdu, Indian dialects |
| Pakistan: Punjabi, Sindhi , Siraiki (a Punjabi variant), Pashtu, Urdu (official), Balochi, Hindko, Brahui, English, Burushaski and other languages |
| Palau: English, Palauan, Sonsorolese, Tobi, Angaur, Japanese |
| Panama: Spanish (official), English |
| Papua New Guinea: English, pidgin English (widespread), Motu, numerous indigenous languages |
| Paraguay: Spanish (official), Guarani |
| Peru: Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara |
| Philippines: Pilipino (official), based on Tagalog, English (official) |
| Pitcairn Island: English (official), Pitcairnese (mixture of a Tahitian dialect and an 18th Century English dialect) |
| Poland: Polish |
| Portugal: Portuguese |
| Puerto Rico: Spanish, English |
| Qatar: Arabic (official), English |
| Reunion: French (official), Creole |
| Romania: Romanian, Hungarian, German |
| Russia: Russian and other languages |
| Rwanda: Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) |
| Saint Helena: English |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis: English |
| Saint Lucia: English (official), French patois |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon: French |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: English, French patois |
| Samoa: Samoan (Polynesian), English |
| San Marino: Italian |
| Sao Tome and Principe: Portuguese (official) |
| Saudi Arabia: Arabic |
| Scotland: English, Welsh, Scottish form of Gaelic |
| Senegal: French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka |
| Serbia and Montenegro: Serbian, Albanian |
| Seychelles: English (official), French (official), Creole |
| Sierra Leone: English (official), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole), spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for a small portion of the population but understood by the majority. |
| Singapore: Chinese (official), Malay (official and national), Tamil (official), English (official) |
| Slovakia: Slovak (official), Hungarian |
| Slovenia: Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian and other languages |
| Solomon Islands: Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2% of population, 120 indigenous languages |
| Somalia: Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English |
| South Africa: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu |
| Spain: Castilian Spanish (official), Catalan, Galician, Basque |
| Sri Lanka: Sinhala (official and national language), Tamil (national language), English is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by a small percentage of the population. |
| Sudan: Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English, Program of Arabization in process |
| Suriname: Dutch (official), English (widely spoken), Sranang Tongo, Surinamese (sometimes called Taki-Taki, is the native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), Javanese |
| Svalbard: Russian, Norwegian |
| Swaziland: English (official; government business conducted in English), siSwati (official) |
| Sweden: Swedish, Lapp, Finnish |
| Switzerland: German (official), French (official), Italian (official), Romansch and other languages |
| Syria: Arabic (official), Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian, French, English |
| Taiwan: Mandarin Chinese (official), Taiwanese (Min), Hakka dialects |
| Tajikistan: Tajik (official), Russian |
| Tanzania: Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguju (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar) and many local languages, Kiswahili (Swahili) the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources, including Arabic and English. |
| Thailand: Thai, English, regional dialects |
| Togo: French (official), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north) |
| Tokelau: Tokelauan (a Polynesian language), English |
| Tonga: Tongan, English |
| Trinidad and Tobago: English (official), Hindi, French, Spanish, Chinese |
| Tunisia: Arabic (official), French |
| Turkey: Turkish (official), Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian, Greek |
| Turkmenistan: Turkmen, Russian, Uzbek, and other languages |
| Turks and Caicos Islands: English (official) |
| Tuvalu: Tuvaluan, English |
| Uganda: English (official), Ganda or Luganda, other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic |
| Ukraine: Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian |
| United Arab Emirates: Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu |
| United Kingdom: English, Welsh, Scottish form of Gaelic |
| United States: English, Spanish |
| Uruguay: Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero |
| Uzbekistan: Uzbek, Russian, Tajik, and other languages |
| Vanuatu: English (official), French (official), pidgin (known as Bislama or Bichelama) |
| Venezuela: Spanish (official), numerous indigenous dialects |
| Vietnam: Vietnamese (official), Chinese, English, French, Khmer, tribal languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
| Virgin Islands: English (official), Spanish, Creole |
| Wallis and Futuna: French, Wallisian (indigenous Polynesian language) |
| Western Sahara: Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic |
| Yemen: Arabic |
| Zambia: English (official), major vernaculars - Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and numerous other indigenous languages |
| Zimbabwe: English (official), Shona, Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects |
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