ARTICLE / LIST OF LANGUAGES of all COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
ARTICLE / LIST OF LANGUAGES of all COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
NOTE: PERCENTAGE MAY VARY. THIS ARITCLE IS NOT FOR JUDICIAL PROCEDURE. Experts welcomed to improve site.
AFGHANISTAN Afghan Persian / Dari (official) 50%, Pashtu (official) 35%, Turkic languages (Uzbek & Turkmen etc) 11%, 30 ( Balochi & Pashai ETC )
ALBANIA Albanian (official ), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects
ALGERIA Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects
AMERICAN SAMOA Samoan 90.6% (closely related to Hawaiian & other Polynesian languages), English 2.9%, Tongan 2.4%, other Pacific isl & er 2.1%, other 2%
ANDOR Catalan (official), French, Castilian, Portuguese
ANGOLA Portuguese (official), Bantu & other African languages
ANGUILLA English (official)
ANTIGUA & BAR BUDA English (official), local dialects
ARGENTINA Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French
ARMENIA Armenian 97.7%, Yezidi 1%, Russian 0.9%, other 0.4% (2001 census)
ARUBA Dutch (official), Papiamento (a Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English dialect), English (widely spoken), Spanish.
AUSTRALIA English 79.1%, Chinese 2.1%, Italian 1.9%, other 11.1%, unspecified 5.8% (2001 Census)
AUSTRIA German (official nationwide), Slovene (official in Carinthia), Croatian (official in Burgenland), Hungarian (official in Burgenland).
AZERBAIJAN Azerbaijani (Azeri) 89%, Russian 3%, Armenian 2%, other 6% (1995 est.)
BAHAMAS, THE English (official), Creole (among Haitian immigrants)
BAHRAIN Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu
BANGLADESH Bangla/ Bengali (official), English
BARBADOS English
BELARUS Belarusian, Russian, other
BELGIUM Dutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%.
BELIZE English (official), Spanish, Mayan, Garifuna (Carib), Creole
BENIN French (official), Fon & Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages six .
BERMUDA English (official), Portuguese
BHUTAN Dzongkha (official), Bhotes speak various Tibetan dialects, Nepalese speak various Nepalese dialects
BOLIVIA Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara (official)
BOSINIA AND HERZEGOVINA Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
BOTSWANA Setswana 78.2%, Kalanga 7.9%, Sekgalagadi 2.8%, English 2.1% (official), other 8.6%, unspecified 0.4% .
BRAZIL Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French
BRITHS VIRJIN ISLANDS English (official)
BRUNEI Malay (official), English, Chinese
BULGARIA Bulgarian 84.5%, Turkish 9.6%, Roma 4.1%, other & unspecified 1.8%
BURKINA FASO French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90%.
BURMA Burmese, many other languages
BURUNDI Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili ( Tanganyika & Bujumbura )
CAMBODIA Khmer (official) 95%, French, English
CAMEROON 24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official)
CANADA CANADA English (official) 59.3%, French (official) 23.2%, other 17.5%
CAPE VERDE Portuguese, Crioulo
CAYMAN ISLANDS English
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC French (official), Sangho , tribal languages
CHAD French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), and 120 languages
CHILI Spanish
CHINA Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages
CHRISTMAS ISLAND English (official), Chinese, Malay
COCOS (Keeling) ISLANDS Malay (Cocos dialect), English
COLOBIA Spanish
COMOROS Arabic (official), French (official), Shikomoro
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE French (official), Lingala , Kingwana , Kikongo, Tshiluba
CONGO, REPUBLIC OF THE French (official), Lingala & Monokutuba , many local languages.
COOK ISLANDS English (official), Maori
COSTA RICA Spanish (official), English
CROATIA Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other & undesignated 2.9% (Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, & German)
CUBA Spanish
CYPRUS Greek, Turkish, English
CZECH REPEBLIC Czech
CÔTE D’IVOIRE French (official), 60% Dioula
DENMARK Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic, German (small minority)
DJIBOUTI French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar
DOMINICA ( (دومینیکا English (official), French patois
DOMINICAN REPEBLIC Spanish
EAST TIMOR Tetum (official), Portuguese (official), Indonesian, English
ECUADOR Spanish (official), Amerindian languages (especially Quechua)
EGYPT Arabic (official), English & French widely understood by educated classes
EL SALVADOR Spanish, Nahua
EQUATORIAL GUINEA Spanish (official), French (official), pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo
ERITREA Afar, Arabic, Tigre & Kunama, Tigrinya,
ESTONIA Estonian (official) 67.3%, Russian 29.7%,
ETHIOPIA Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromigna, Guaragigna, Somali, Arabic, English
FALAK AND ISLANDS (ISLAS MALVINAS) English
FAROE ISLANDS
Faroese (derived from Old Norse), Danish
FIJI
English (official), Fijian, Hindustani
FINLAND
Finnish 92% (official), Swedish 5.6% (official),
FRANCE
French 100%, regional dialects & languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish)
FRENCH GUIANA French
FRENCH POLYNESIA French 61.1% (official), Polynesian 31.4% (official), Asian languages 1.2%,
GABON French (official), Fang, Myene, Nzebi, Bapounou/Eschira, B&jabi
GAMBIA, THE English (official), M&inka, Wolof, Fula,
GAZA STRIP Arabic, Hebrew , English
GEORGIA Georgian 71% (official), Russian 9%, Armenian 7%, Azeri 6%,
GERMANY German
GHANA English (official), African languages (including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, & Ga)
GIBRALTAR English (used in schools & for official purposes), Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
GREECE Greek 99% (official), English, French
GREENLAND Greenlandic (East Inuit), Danish, English
GRENADA English (official), French patois
GUADELOUPE French (official) 99%, Creole patois
GUAM English 38.3%, Chamorro 22.2%, Philippine languages 22.2%, other Pacific island languages 6.8%, Asian languages 7%,
GUATEMALA Spanish 60%, Amerindian languages 40% (23 officially recognized Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, & Xinca)
GUERNSEY English, French, Norman-French dialect spoken in country districts
GUINEA French (official),
GUINEA-BISSAU Portuguese (official), Crioulo, African languages
GUYANA English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Hindi, Urdu
HAITI French (official), Creole (official)
HOLY SEE (VATICAN CITY) Italian, Latin, French,
HONDURAS Spanish,
HONG KONG Chinese (Cantonese), English; both are official
HUNGARY Hungarian 93.6%, other or unspecified 6.4% (2001 census)
ICELAND Icelandic, English, Nordic languages, German
INDIA English ; Hindi 30% of the people; 14 other : Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, & Sanskrit; Hindustani .
INDONESIA Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay), English, Dutch, local dialects, the Javanese
IRAN Persian & Persian dialects 58%, Turkic & Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2%
IRAQ Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian, Armenian
IRELAND English (official) is the language generally used, Irish (official) (Gaelic or Gaeilge) spoken mainly in areas located along the western seaboard
ISRAEL Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially for Arab minority, English
ITALY Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region ), French (small French- in Valle d’Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene- in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
JAMAICA English, patois English
JAPAN Japanese
JERSEY English 94.5% (official), Portuguese 4.6%, other 0.9% (2001 census)
JORDAN Arabic (official), English among upper & middle classes
KAZAKHSTAN Kazakh (Qazaq, state language) 64.4%, Russian (official) 95%
KENYA English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages
KIRIBATI I-Kiribati, English (official)
KOREA, NORTH Korean
KOREA, SOUTH Korean, English
KUWAIT Arabic (official), English widely spoken
KYRGYZSTAN Kyrgyz (official), Russian (official)
LAOS Lao (official), French, English, & various ethnic languages
LATVIA Latvian (official) 58.2%, Russian 37.5%, Lithuanian & other 4.3%
LEBANON Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian
LESOTHO Sesotho (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa
LIBERIA English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages,
LIBYA Arabic, Italian, English,
LIECHTENSTEIN German (official), Alemannic dialect
LITHUANIA Lithuanian (official) 82%, Russian 8%, Polish 5.6%, other & unspecified 4.4%
LUXEMBOURG Luxembourgish (national language), German (administrative language), French (administrative language)
MACAU Cantonese 87.9%, Hokkien 4.4%, M&arin 1.6%, other Chinese dialects 3.1%, other 3%
MACEDONIA, REPUBLIC of Macedonian 66.5%, Albanian 25.1%, Turkish 3.5%, Roma 1.9%, Serbian 1.2%, other 1.8%
MADAGASCAR French (official), Malagasy (official)
MALAWI Chichewa 57.2% (official), Chinyanja 12.8%, Chiyao 10.1%, Chitumbuka 9.5%, Chisena 2.7%, Chilomwe 2.4%, Chitonga 1.7%, other 3.6%
MALAYSIA Bahasa Melayu (official), English, Chinese dialects (Cantonese, M&arin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai
MALDIVES Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic), English spoken by most government officials
MALI French (official), Bambara 80%, numerous African languages
MALTA Maltese (official), English (official)
MAN, ISLE of English, Manx Gaelic
MARSHALL ISLANDS Marshallese 98.2%, other languages 1.8%
MARTINIQUE French, Creole patois
MAURITANIA Arabic (official), Pulaar, Soninke, French, Hassaniya, Wolof
MAURITIUS French Creole(French patois) 80.5% French creole , Bhojpuri 12.1%, French (official), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3%
MAYOTTE Mahorian (a Swahili dialect), French (official language) spoken by 35%
MEXICO Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl, & other regional indigenous languages
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES of English (official & common language), Trukese, Pohnpeian, Yapese, Kosrean, Ulithian, Woleaian, Nukuoro, Kapingamarangi
MOLDOVA Moldovan (official, same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect)
MONACO French (official), English, Italian, Monegasque
MONGOLIA Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian
MONTSERRAT English
MOROCCO Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French
MOZAMBIQUE Emakhuwa 26.1%, Xichangana 11.3%, Portuguese 8.8% (official; spoken by 27%), Elomwe 7.6%, Cisena 6.8%, Echuwabo 5.8%, other Mozambican languages 32%, other foreign languages 0.3%, unspecified 1.3%
NAMIBIA English 7% (official), Afrikaans common language , German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama
NAURU Nauruan (official, a distinct Pacific Island language), English widely understood, spoken, & used for most government & commercial purposes
NEPAL Nepali 47.8%, Maithali 12.1%, Bhojpuri 7.4%, Tharu (Dagaura/Rana) 5.8%, Tamang 5.1%, Newar 3.6%, Magar 3.3%, Awadhi 2.4%, other 10%, unspecified 2.5%
NETHERLANDS Dutch (official), Frisian (official)
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES Papiamento 65.4% (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect), English 15.9% (widely spoken), Dutch 7.3% (official), Spanish 6.1%, Creole 1.6%, other 1.9%, unspecified 1.8%
NEW CALEDONIA French (official), 33 Melanesian-Polynesian dialects
NEW ZEALAND English (official), Maori (official)
NICARAGUA Spanish 97.5% (official), Miskito 1.7%, other 0.8%
NIGER French (official), Hausa, Djerma
NIGERIA English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani
NIUE Niuean, a Polynesian like Tongan & Samoan; English
NORFOLK ISLANDS
English (official), Norfolk a mixture of 18th century English & ancient Tahitian
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS Philippine languages 24.4%, Chinese 23.4%, Chamorro 22.4%, English 10.8%, other Pacific isl& languages 9.5%, other 9.6%
NORWAY Bokmal Norwegian (official), Nynorsk Norwegian (official), small Sami- & Finnish-speaking
OMAN Arabic (official), English, Baluchi, Urdu, Indian dialects
PAKISTAN Punjabi 48%, Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%, Pashtu 8%, Urdu (official) 8%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%, English , Burushaski, & other 8%
PALAU Palauan 64.7% official in all islands except Sonsoral (Sonsoralese & English official), Tobi (Tobi & English are official), & Angaur (Angaur, Japanese, & English are official), Filipino 13.5%, English 9.4%, Chinese 5.7%, Carolinian 1.5%, Japanese 1.5%, other Asian 2.3%, other languages 1.5%
PALISTINE Arabic (official), Hebrew, French
PANAMA Spanish (official), English 14%; note – many Panamanians bilingual
PAPUA NEW GUINEA Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2%, Motu spoken in Papua region
PARAGUAY Spanish (official), Guarani (official)
PERU Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara, & a large number of minor Amazonian languages
PHILIPPINES 2 official languages – Filipino (based on Tagalog) & English; eight major dialects – Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, & Pangasinan
PITCAIRN ISLANDS English (official), Pitcairnese (mixture of an 18th century English dialect & a Tahitian dialect)
POLAND Polish 97.8%, other & unspecified 2.2% (2002 census)
PORTUGAL Portuguese (official), Mirandese (official – but locally used)
PUERTO RICO Spanish, English
QATAR Arabic (official), English
ROMANIA Romanian (official), Hungarian, German
RUSSIA Russian, many minority languages
RWANDA
Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili)
RÉUNION French (official), Creole widely used
SAINT HELENA English
SAINT KITTS & NEVIS English
SAINT LUCIA English (official), French patois
SAINT PIERRE & MIQUELON French (official)
SAINT VINCENT & THE GRENADINES English, French patois
SAMOA Samoan (Polynesian), English
SAN MARINO Italian
SAUDI ARABIA Arabic ,English Urdu and many other languages
SENEGAL French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka
SERBIA & MONTENEGRO Serbian 95%, Albanian 5%
SEYCHELLES Creole 91.8%, English 4.9% (official), other 3.1%, unspecified 0.2%
SIERRA LEONE English (official), Mende (in the south), Temne ( in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, a lingua franca & a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)
SINGAPORE Mandarin 35%, English 23%, Malay 14.1%, Hokkien 11.4%, Cantonese 5.7%, Teochew 4.9%, Tamil 3.2%, other Chinese dialects 1.8%, other 0.9%
SLOVAKIA Slovak (official) 83.9%, Hungarian 10.7%, Roma 1.8%, Ukrainian 1%, other or unspecified 2.6%
SLOVENIA Slovenian 91.1%, Serbo-Croatian 4.5%, other or unspecified 4.4%
SOLOMON ISLANDS Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English is official but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population
SOMALIA Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English
SOUTH AFRICA IsiZulu 23.8%, IsiXhosa 17.6%, Afrikaans 13.3%, Sepedi 9.4%, English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.9%, Xitsonga 4.4%, other 7.2%
SPAIN Castilian Spanish 74%, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2%; note – Castilian is the official language nationwide; the other languages are official regionally
SRI LANKA Sinhala (official & national language) 74%, Tamil (national language) 18%, other 8%
SUDAN Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
SURINAME Dutch (official), English (widely spoken), Sranang Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles & much of the younger population & is lingua franca among others), Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), Javanese
SVALBARD Norwegian, Russian
SWAZILAND English (official, government business conducted in English), siSwati (official)
SWEDEN Swedish, small Sami- & Finnish-speaking minorities
SWITZERLAND German (official) 63.7%, French (official) 20.4%, Italian (official) 6.5%, Serbo-Croatian 1.5%, Albanian 1.3%, Portuguese 1.2%, Spanish 1.1%, English 1%, other 3.3%
SYRIA Arabic (official); Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian; French, English
SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Portuguese (official)
TAIWAN Mandarin Chinese (official), Taiwanese (Min), Hakka dialects
TAJIKISTAN Tajik (official), Russian widely used in government & business
TANZANIA Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official), Arabic ( in Zanzibar), many local languages
THAILAND Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic & regional dialects
TOGO French (official & the language of commerce), Ewe & Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) & Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)
TOKELAU Tokelauan (a Polynesian language), English
TONGA Tongan, English
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO English (official), Hindi, French, Spanish, Chinese
TUNISIA Arabic (official & one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce)
TURKEY Turkish (official), Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian, Greek
TURKMENISTAN Turkmen 72%, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, other 7%
TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS English (official)
TUVALU Tuvaluan, English, Samoan, Kiribati (on the isl& of Nui)
UGANDA English (official), Ganda or Luga , other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
UKRAINE Ukrainian (official) 67%, Russian 24%; small Romanian-, Polish-, & Hungarian-speaking minorities
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu
UNITED KINGDOM English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)
UNITED STATES English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian & Pacific isl& 2.7%, other 0.7%
URUGUAY Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier)
UZBEKISTAN Uzbek 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1%
VANUATU local languages (more than 100) 72.6%, pidgin (known as Bislama or Bichelama) 23.1%, English 1.9%, French 1.4%, other 0.3%, unspecified 0.7%
VENEZUELA Spanish (official), numerous indigenous dialects
VIETNAM Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, & Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer & Malayo-Polynesian)
Virgin ISLANDS English 74.7%, Spanish or Spanish Creole 16.8%, French or French Creole 6.6%, other 1.9%
WALLIS & FUTUNA Wallisian 58.9% (indigenous Polynesian language), Futunian 30.1%, French 10.8%, other 0.2%
WEST BANK
Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers & many Palestinians), English (widely understood)
WESTERN SAHARA Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic
YEMEN Arabic
ZAMBIA English (official), major vernaculars – Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, & 70 other
ZIMBABWE English (official), Shona, Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele, sometimes called Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects