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Languages by Country

The following is a list of languages matched with countries that they are spoken. The languages did not necessarily originate in those countries but do have a presence there. When possible, percentage of population that speaks the language is included next to the language.

 

Afghanistan

  • Afghan Persian or Dari (official)
  • lingua franca) 77%
  • Pashto (official) 48%
  • Uzbeki 11%
  • English 6%
  • Turkmani 3%
  • Urdu 3%
  • Pachaie 1%
  • Nuristani 1%
  • Arabic 1%
  • Balochi 1%

 

Akrotiri

  • English
  • Greek

 

Albania

  • Albanian 98.8% (official – derived from Tosk dialect)
  • Greek 0.5%
  • other 0.6% (including Macedonian) 
  • Romani
  • Vlach
  • Turkish
  • Italian
  • Serbo-Croatian

 

Algeria

  • Arabic (official)
  • French (lingua franca)
  • Berber or Tamazight (official); dialects include Kabyle Berber (Taqbaylit)
  • Shawiya Berber (Tacawit)
  • Mzab Berber
  • Tuareg Berber (Tamahaq)

 

American Samoa

  • Samoan 88.6% 
  • English 3.9%
  • Tongan 2.7%

 

Andorra

  • Catalan (official)
  • French
  • Castilian
  • Portuguese

 

Angola

  • Portuguese 71.2% (official)
  • Umbundu 23%
  • Kikongo 8.2%
  • Kimbundu 7.8%
  • Chokwe 6.5%
  • Nhaneca 3.4%
  • Nganguela 3.1%
  • Fiote 2.4%
  • Kwanhama 2.3%
  • Muhumbi 2.1%
  • Luvale 1%

 

Anguilla

  • English (official)

 

Antigua and Barbuda

  • English (official)
  • Antiguan creole

 

Argentina

  • Spanish (official)
  • Italian
  • English
  • German
  • French
  • (Mapudungun
  • Quechua

 

Armenia

  • Armenian (official) 97.9%
  • Kurdish (spoken by Yezidi minority) 1%

 

Aruba

  • Papiamento (official) 
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Frenchas 
  • Spanish 13.7%
  • English (widely spoken) 7.1%
  • Dutch (official) 6.1%
  • Chinese 1.5%

 

Australia

  • English 72.7%
  • Mandarin 2.5%
  • Arabic 1.4%
  • Cantonese 1.2%
  • Vietnamese 1.2%
  • Italian 1.2%
  • Greek 1%

 

Austria

  • German (official nationwide) 88.6%
  • Turkish 2.3%
  • Serbian 2.2%
  • Croatian  

 

Azerbaijan

  • Azerbaijani (Azeri) (official) 92.5%
  • Russian 1.4%
  • Armenian 1.4%

 

Bahamas

  • English (official)
  • Creole (among Haitian immigrants)

 

  • Bahrain
  • Arabic (official)
  • English
  • Farsi
  • Urdu

 

Bangladesh

  • Bangla 98.8% (official, also known as Bengali)

 

Barbados

  • English (official)
  • Bajan 

 

Belarus

  • Russian (official) 70.2%
  • Belarusian (official) 23.4%

 

Belgium

  • Dutch (official) 60%
  • French (official) 40%
  • German (official) less than 1%

 

Belize

  • English 62.9% (official)
  • Spanish 56.6%
  • Creole 44.6%
  • Maya 10.5%
  • German 3.2%
  • Garifuna 2.9%

 

Benin

  • French (official)
  • Fon (a Gbe language) and 
  • Yoruba 
  • Bariba 
  • Fulfulde

 

Bermuda

  • English (official)
  • Portuguese

 

Bhutan

  • Sharchopkha 28%
  • Dzongkha (official) 24%
  • Lhotshamkha 22%

 

Bolivia

  • Spanish (official) 60.7%
  • Quechua (official) 21.2%
  • Aymara (official) 14.6%
  • Guarani (official) 0.6%

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Bosnian (official) 52.9%
  • Serbian (official) 30.8%
  • Croatian (official) 14.6%

 

Botswana

  • Setswana 77.3%
  • Sekalanga 7.4%
  • Shekgalagadi 3.4%
  • English (official) 2.8%
  • Zezuru/Shona 2%
  • Sesarwa 1.7%
  • Sembukushu 1.6%
  • Ndebele 1%
  • other 2.8%  

 

Brazil

 

British Virgin Islands

  • English (official)

 

Brunei

  • Malay (Bahasa Melayu) (official)
  • English
  • Chinese dialects

 

Bulgaria

  • Bulgarian (official) 76.8%
  • Turkish 8.2%
  • Romani 3.8%

 

Burkina Faso

  • French (official)

 

Burma

  • Burmese (official)

 

Burundi

  • Kirundi (official)
  • French (official)
  • Swahili 
  • English (official)

 

Cabo Verde

  • Portuguese (official)
  • Krioulo 
  • Khmer (official) 95.8%
  • minority languages 2.9%
  • Chinese 0.6%
  • Vietnamese 0.5%

 

Cameroon

  • 24 major African language groups
  • English (official)
  • French (official)

 

Canada

  • English (official) 58.7%
  • French (official) 22%
  • Punjabi 1.4%
  • Italian 1.3%
  • Spanish 1.3%
  • German 1.3%
  • Cantonese 1.2%
  • Tagalog 1.2%
  • Arabic 1.1%

 

Cayman Islands

  • English (official) 90.9%
  • Spanish 4%
  • Filipino 3.3%

 

Central African Republic

  • French (official)
  • Sangho

 

Chad

  • French (official)
  • Arabic (official)
  • Sara

 

Chile

  • Spanish 99.5% (official)
  • English 10.2%
  • Mapudungun
  • Aymara
  • Quechua
  • Rapa Nui

 

China

  • Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official)
  • Yue (Cantonese)
  • Wu (Shanghainese)
  • Minbei (Fuzhou)
  • Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese)
  • Xiang
  • Gan
  • Hakka dialects
  • Zhuang
  • Mongolian
  • lUighur
  • Kyrgyz
  • Tibetan

 

Christmas Island

  • English (official) 27.6%
  • Mandarin 17.2%
  • Malay 17.1%
  • Cantonese 3.9%
  • Min Nan 1.6%
  • Tagalog 1%

 

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

  • Malay (Cocos dialect) 68.8%
  • English 22.3%

 

Colombia

  • Spanish (official)

 

Comoros

  • Arabic (official)
  • French (official)
  • Shikomoro (official)
  • Comorian

 

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

  • French (official)
  • Lingala
  • Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili)
  • Kikongo
  • Tshiluba

 

Congo, Republic of the

  • French (official)
  • French Lingala
  • Monokutuba
  • Kikongo

 

Cook Islands

  • English (official) 86.4%
  • Cook Islands Maori (Rarotongan) (official) 76.2%

 

Costa Rica

  • Spanish (official)
  • English

 

Cote d’Ivoire

  • French (official)
  • Dioula

 

Croatia

  • Croatian (official) 95.6%
  • Serbian 1.2%
  • Hungarian
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Albanian

 

Cuba

  • Spanish (official)

 

Curacao

  • Papiamento (official)
  • Dutch (official) 8.8%
  • Spanish 5.6%
  • English (official) 3.1%

 

Cyprus

  • Greek (official) 80.9%
  • Turkish (official) 0.2%
  • English 4.1%
  • Romanian 2.9%
  • Russian 2.5%
  • Bulgarian 2.2%
  • Arabic 1.2%
  • Filipino 1.1%

 

Czechia

  • Czech (official) 88.4%
  • Slovak 1.5%

 

Denmark

  • Danish
  • Faroese
  • Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect)
  • German 
  • English

 

Dhekelia

  • English
  • Greek

 

Djibouti

  • French (official)
  • Arabic (official)
  • Somali
  • Afar

 

Dominica

  • English (official)
  • French patois

 

Dominican Republic

  • Spanish (official)

 

Ecuador

  • Spanish (Castilian) 93% (official)
  • Quechua 4.1%

 

Egypt

  • Arabic (official)
  • English
  • French

 

El Salvador

  • Spanish (official)
  • Nawat 

 

Equatorial Guinea

  • Spanish (official)
  • Fang
  • Bubi
  • Portuguese (official)
  • French (official)
  • Portuguese

 

Eritrea

  • Tigrinya (official)
  • Arabic (official)
  • English (official)
  • Tigre
  • Kunama
  • Afar

 

Estonia

  • Estonian (official) 68.5%
  • Russian 29.6%
  • Ukrainian 0.6%

 

Eswatini

  • English (official)
  • siSwati (official)

 

Ethiopia

  • Oromo (official working language in the State of Oromiya) 33.8%
  • Amharic (official national language) 29.3%
  • Somali (official working language of the State of Sumale) 6.2%
  • Tigrigna (Tigrinya) (official working language of the State of Tigray) 5.9%
  • Sidamo 4%
  • Wolaytta 2.2%
  • Gurage 2%
  • Afar (official working language of the State of Afar) 1.7%
  • Hadiyya 1.7%
  • Gamo 1.5%
  • Gedeo 1.3%
  • Opuuo 1.2%
  • Kafa 1.1%
  • other 8.1%
  • English (major foreign language taught in schools)
  • Arabic 

 

European Union

  • Bulgarian
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Maltese
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Slovak
  • Slovene
  • Spanish
  • Swedish

 

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

  • English 89%
  • Spanish 7.7%
  • other 3.3% (2006 est.)
  • Faroe Islands
  • Faroese 93.8% (derived from Old Norse)
  • Danish 3.2%

 

Fiji

  • English (official)
  • iTaukei (official)
  • Fiji Hindi (official)
  • Finland
  • Finnish (official) 86.5%
  • Swedish (official) 5.2%
  • Russian 1.6%

 

France

  • French (official) 100%
  • declining regional dialects and languages
    • Provencal
    • Breton
    • Alsatian
    • Corsican
    • Catalan
    • Basque
    • Flemish
    • Occitan
    • Picard;  
  • Mahorian (a Swahili dialect)

 

French Polynesia

  • French (official) 73.5%
  • Tahitian 20.1%
  • Marquesan 2.6%
  • Austral languages 1.2%
  • Paumotu 1%

 

Gabon

  • French (official)
  • Fang
  • Myene
  • Nzebi
  • Bapounou/Eschira
  • Bandjabi
  • Gambia
  • English (official)
  • Mandinka
  • Wolof
  • Fula

 

Gaza Strip

  • Arabic
  • Hebrew
  • English

 

Georgia

  • Georgian (official) 87.6%
  • Azeri 6.2%
  • Armenian 3.9%
  • Russian 1.2%

 

Germany

  • German (official); note – Danish
  • Frisian
  • Sorbian
  • Low German
  • Danish
  • North Frisian
  • Sater Frisian
  • Lower Sorbian
  • Upper Sorbian
  • Romani

 

Ghana

  • Asante 16%
  • Ewe 14%
  • Fante 11.6%
  • Boron (Brong) 4.9%
  • Dagomba 4.4%
  • Dangme 4.2%
  • Dagarte (Dagaba) 3.9%
  • Kokomba 3.5%
  • Akyem 3.2%
  • Ga 3.1%

 

Gibraltar

  • English 
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese

 

Greece

  • Greek (official) 99%
  • English
  • French

 

Greenland

  • Greenlandic (West Greenlandic or Kalaallisut is the official language)
  • Danish
  • English

 

Grenada

  • English (official)
  • French patois

 

Guam

  • English 43.6%
  • Filipino 21.2%
  • Chamorro 17.8%
  • Asian languages 6.3%

 

Guatemala

  • Spanish (official) 69.9%
  • Maya languages 29.7% 
    • Q’eqchi’ 8.3%
    • K’iche 7.8%
    • Mam 4.4%
    • Kaqchikel 3%
    • Q’anjob’al 1.2%
    • Poqomchi’ 1%
  • Xinca
  • Garifuna 

 

Guernsey

  • English
  • French
  • Norman-French dialect spoken in country districts

 

Guinea

  • French (official)
  • Pular
  • Maninka
  • Susuother native languages

 

Guinea-Bissau

  • Portuguese-based Creole
  • Portuguese (official)
  • Pular (a Fula language)
  • Mandingo

 

Guyana

  • English (official)
  • Guyanese Creole
  • Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi)
  • Chinese  

 

Haiti

  • French (official)
  • Creole (official)

 

Holy See (Vatican City)

  • Italian
  • Latin
  • French

 

Honduras

  • Spanish (official)
  • Amerindian dialects

 

Hong Kong

  • Cantonese (official) 88.9%
  • English (official) 4.3%
  • Mandarin (official) 1.9%

 

Hungary

  • Hungarian (official) 99.6%
  • English 16%
  • German 11.2%
  • Russian 1.6%
  • Romanian 1.3%
  • French 1.2%

 

Iceland

  • Icelandic
  • English
  • Nordic languages
  • German

 

India

  • Hindi 43.6%
  • Bengali 8%
  • Marathi 6.9%
  • Telugu 6.7%
  • Tamil 5.7%
  • Gujarati 4.6%
  • Urdu 4.2%
  • Kannada 3.6%
  • Odia 3.1%
  • Malayalam 2.9%
  • Punjabi 2.7%
  • Assamese 1.3%
  • Maithili 1.1%
  • English
  • 22 other officially recognized languages: 
    • Assamese
    • Bengali
    • Bodo
    • Dogri
    • Gujarati
    • Hindi
    • Kannada
    • Kashmiri
    • Konkani
    • Maithili
    • Malayalam
    • Manipuri
    • Nepali
    • Odia
    • Punjabi
    • Sanskrit
    • Santali
    • Sindhi
    • Tamil
    • Telugu
  • Urdu
  • Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu  

 

Indonesia

  • Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay)
  • English
  • Dutch

 

Iran

  • Persian Farsi (official)
  • Azeri 
  • Kurdish
  • Gilaki 
  • Mazandarani
  • Luri
  • Balochi
  • Arabic

 

Iraq

  • Arabic (official)
  • Kurdish (official)
  • Turkmen (a Turkish dialect)
  • Syriac 
  • Neo-Aramaic
  • Armenian

 

Ireland

  • English (official)
  • Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (officia)
  • Isle of Man
  • English
  • Manx Gaelic 

 

Israel

  • Hebrew (official)
  • Arabic (special status under Israeli law)
  • English

 

Italy

  • Italian (official)
  • German
  • French 
  • Slovene

 

Jamaica

  • English
  • English patois

 

Japan

  • Japanese

 

Jersey

  • English (official) 94.5%
  • Portuguese 4.6%
  • French (official)
  • Jerriais

 

Jordan

  • Arabic (official)
  • English

 

Kazakhstan

  • Kazakh (officialQazaq) 
  • Russian 
  • English

 

Kenya

  • English (official)
  • Kiswahili (official)

 

Korea, North

  • Korean

 

Korea, South

  • Korean
  • English

 

Kosovo

  • Albanian (official) 94.5%
  • Bosnian 1.7%
  • Serbian (official) 1.6%
  • Turkish 1.1%
  • Romani

 

Kuwait

  • Arabic (official)
  • English 

 

Kyrgyzstan

  • Kyrgyz (official) 71.4%
  • Uzbek 14.4%
  • Russian (official) 9%

 

Laos

  • Lao (official)
  • French
  • English

 

Latvia

  • Latvian (official) 56.3%
  • Russian 33.8%
  • Polish
  • Ukrainian
  • Belarusian

 

Lebanon

  • Arabic (official)
  • French
  • English
  • Armenian

 

Lesotho

  • Sesotho (official) (southern Sotho)
  • English (official)
  • Zulu
  • Xhosa

 

Liberia

  • English 20% (official)

 

Libya

  • Arabic (official)
  • Italian
  • English (all widely understood in the major cities); 
  • Berber 
    • Nafusi
    • Ghadamis
    • Suknah
    • Awjilah
    • Tamasheq

 

Liechtenstein

  • German 91.5% (official) (Alemannic is the main dialect)
  • Italian 1.5%
  • Turkish 1.3%
  • Portuguese 1.1%

 

Lithuania

  • Lithuanian (official) 85.3%
  • Russian 6.8%
  • Polish 5.1%

 

Luxembourg

  • Luxembourgish (official)
  • Portuguese 15.7%
  • French
  • German
  • Italian 2.9%
  • English 2.1%

 

Macau

 

Madagascar

  • Malagasy (official) 99.9%
  • French (official) 23.6%
  • English 8.2%

 

Malawi

  • English (official)
  • Chewa (common)
  • Lambya
  • Lomwe
  • Ngoni
  • Nkhonde
  • Nyakyusa
  • Nyanja
  • Sena
  • Tonga
  • Tumbuka
  • Yao

 

Malaysia

  • Bahasa Malaysia (official)
  • English
  • Chinese 
    • Cantonese
    • Mandarin
    • Hokkien
    • Hakka
    • Hainan
    • Foochow
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Malayalam
  • Panjabi
  • Thai; 

 

Maldives

  • Dhivehi (official)
  • English

 

Mali

  • French (official)
  • Bambara 46.3%
  • Peuhl/Foulfoulbe 9.4%
  • Dogon 7.2%
  • Maraka/Soninke 6.4%
  • Malinke 5.6%
  • Sonrhai/Djerma 5.6%
  • Minianka 4.3%
  • Tamacheq 3.5%
  • Senoufo 2.6%
  • Bobo 2.1%

 

Malta

  • Maltese (official) 90.1%
  • English (official) 6%

 

Marshall Islands

  • Marshallese (official) 98.2%

 

Mauritania

  • Arabic (official)
  • Pular
  • Soninke
  • Wolof 
  • French

 

Mauritius

  • Creole 86.5%
  • Bhojpuri 5.3%
  • French 4.1%
  • Englishone 

 

Mexico

  • Spanish
  • Mayan
  • Nahuatl

 

MicronesiaFederated States of

  • English (officia)
  • Chuukese
  • Kosrean
  • Pohnpeian
  • Yapese
  • Ulithian
  • Woleaian
  • Nukuoro
  • Kapingamarangi
  • Moldova

 

Monaco

  • French (official)
  • English
  • Italian
  • Monegasque

 

Mongolia

  • Mongolian 90% (official) (Khalkha dialect is predominant)
  • Turkic
  • Russian  

 

Montenegro

  • Serbian 42.9%
  • Montenegrin (official) 37%
  • Bosnian 5.3%
  • Albanian 5.3%
  • Serbo-Croat 2%

 

Montserrat

  • English

 

Morocco

  • Arabic (official)
  • Berber languages
    • Tamazight (official)
    • Tachelhit
    • Tarifit
  • French 

 

Mozambique

  • Makhuwa 26.1%
  • Portuguese (official) 16.6%
  • Tsonga 8.6%
  • Nyanja 8.1
  • Sena 7.1%
  • Lomwe 7.1%
  • Chuwabo 4.7%
  • Ndau 3.8%
  • Tswa 3.8%

 

Namibia

  • Oshiwambo languages 49.7%
  • Nama/Damara 11%
  • Kavango languages 10.4%
  • Afrikaans 
  • Herero languages 9.2%
  • Zambezi languages 4.9%
  • English (official) 2.3%

 

Nauru

  • Nauruan 93% 
  • English 2% 
  • Kiribati 
  • Chinese

 

Nepal

  • Nepali (official) 44.6%
  • Maithali 11.7%
  • Bhojpuri 6%
  • Tharu 5.8%
  • Tamang 5.1%
  • Newar 3.2%
  • Bajjika 3%
  • Magar 3%
  • Doteli 3%
  • Urdu 2.6%
  • Avadhi 1.9%
  • Limbu 1.3%
  • Gurung 1.2%
  • Baitadeli 1%

 

Netherlands

  • Dutch (official)
  • Frisian
  • Low Saxon
  • Limburgish
  • Romani
  • Yiddish
  • English
  • Papiamento

 

New Caledonia

  • French (official)

 

New Zealand

  • English (de facto official) 95.4%
  • Maori (de jure official) 4%
  • Samoan 2.2%
  • Northern Chinese 2%
  • Hindi 1.5%
  • French 1.2%
  • Yue 1.1%
  • New Zealand Sign Language (de jure official) 0.5%

 

Nicaragua

  • Spanish (official) 95.3%
  • Miskito 2.2%
  • Mestizo of the Caribbean coast 2%

 

Niger

  • French (official)
  • Hausa
  • Djerma

 

Nigeria

  • English (official)
  • Hausa
  • Yoruba
  • Igbo (Ibo)
  • Fulani

 

Niue

  • Niuean (official) 46%
  • English (official) 11%
  • Niuean

 

Norfolk Island

  • English (official) 44.9%
  • Norfolk (also known as Norfuk or Norf’k)
  • Fijian 1.8%

 

North Macedonia

  • Macedonian (official) 61.4%
  • Albanian (official) 24.3%
  • Turkish 3.4%
  • Romani 1.7%
  • Aromanian (Vlach)
  • Bosnian) 2%

 

Northern Mariana Islands

  • Philippine languages 32.8%
  • Chamorro (official) 24.1%
  • English (official) 17%
  • Carolinian (official)
  • Chinese 6.8%

 

Norway

  • Bokmal Norwegian (official)
  • Nynorsk Norwegian (official)
  • Sami
  • Sami has three dialects: 
    • Lule
    • North Sami
    • South Sami

 

Oman

  • Arabic (official)
  • English
  • Baluchi
  • Swahili
  • Urdu

 

Pakistan

  • Punjabi 48%
  • Sindhi 12%
  • Saraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%
  • Pashto (alternate name
  • Pashtu) 8%
  • Urdu (official) 8%
  • Balochi 3%
  • Hindko 2%
  • Brahui 1%
  • English (official)
  • Burushaski

 

Palau

  • Palauan (official on most islands) 65.2%
  • English (official) 19.1%
  • Filipino 9.9%
  • Chinese 1.2%

 

Panama

  • Spanish (official)
  • indigenous languages (including Ngabere (or Guaymi)
  • Buglere
  • Kuna
  • Embera
  • Wounaan
  • Naso (or Teribe)
  • and Bri Bri)
  • Panamanian English Creole 
  • English
  • Chinese (Yue and Hakka)
  • Arabic
  • French Creole
  • Yiddish
  • Hebrew
  • Korean
  • Japanese

 

Papua New Guinea

  • Tok Pisin (official)
  • English (official)
  • Hiri Motu (official)

 

Paraguay

  • Spanish (official)
  • Guarani 34%
  • Spanish 15.2%
  • Portuguese
  • German

 

Peru

Spanish (official) 82.9%

Quechua (official) 13.6%

Aymara (official) 1.6%

Ashaninka 0.3%

 

Philippines

  • Filipino (official); based on Tagalog
    • eight major dialects 
    • Tagalog
    • Cebuano
    • Ilocano
    • Hiligaynon or Ilonggo
    • Bicol
    • Waray
    • Pampango
    • Pangasinan
  • English (official)

 

Pitcairn Islands

  • English (official)
  • Pitkern (mixture of an 18th century English dialect and a Tahitian dialect)

 

Poland

  • Polish (official) 98.2%
  • Silesian 1.4%
  • Kashub
  • Czech
  • Hebrew
  • Yiddish
  • Belarusian
  • Lithuanian
  • German
  • Armenian
  • Russian
  • Slovak
  • Ukrainian
  • Karaim
  • Lemko
  • Romani (Polska Roma and Bergitka Roma)
  • Tatar

 

Portugal

  • Portuguese (official)
  • Mirandese (officialbut locally used)

 

Puerto Rico

  • Spanish
  • English

 

Qatar

  • Arabic (official)
  • English 

 

Romania

  • Romanian (official) 85.4%
  • Hungarian 6.3%
  • Romani 1.2%

 

Russia

  • Russian (official) 85.7%
  • Tatar 3.2%
  • Chechen 1%

 

Rwanda

  • Kinyarwanda (official universal Bantu vernacular) 93.2%
  • French (official) <0.1
  • English (official) <0.1
  • Swahili/Kiswahili (official)

 

Saint Barthelemy

  • French (primary)
  • English

 

Saint HelenaAscensionand Tristan da Cunha

  • English

 

Saint Kitts and Nevis

  • English (official)

 

Saint Lucia

  • English (official)
  • Saint Lucian Creole

 

Saint Martin

  • French (official)
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Guadeloupian Creole
  • Haitian Creole
  • Italian
  • Martiniquan Creole
  • Papiamento (dialect of Netherlands Antilles)
  • Spanish

 

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

  • French (official)

 

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

  • English
  • Vincentian Creole English
  • French patois

 

Samoa

  • Samoan (Polynesian) (official) 91.1%
  • Samoan/English 6.7%
  • English (official) 0.5%

 

San Marino

  • Italian

 

Sao Tome and Principe

  • Portuguese 98.4% (official)
  • Forro 36.2%
  • Cabo Verdian 8.5%
  • French 6.8%
  • Angolar 6.6%
  • English 4.9%
  • Lunguie 1%

 

Saudi Arabia

  • Arabic (official)

 

Senegal

  • French (official)
  • Wolof
  • Pular
  • Jola
  • Mandinka
  • Serer
  • Soninke

 

Serbia

  • Serbian (official) 88.1%, 
  • Hungarian 3.4%, 
  • Bosnian 1.9%, 
  • Romani 1.4%

 

Seychelles

  • Seychellois Creole (official) 89.1%
  • English (official) 5.1%
  • French (official) 0.7%

 

Sierra Leone

  • English (official)
  • Mende
  • Temne
  • Krio (English-based Creole)

 

Singapore

  • English (official) 48.3%
  • Mandarin (official) 29.9%
  • Chinese dialects 
    • Hokkien
    • Cantonese
  • Teochew
  • Hakka) 8.7%
  • Malay (official) 9.2%
  • Tamil (official) 2.5%

 

Sint Maarten

  • English (official) 67.5%
  • Spanish 12.9%
  • Creole 8.2%
  • Dutch (official) 4.2%
  • Papiamento (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect) 2.2%
  • French 1.5%

 

Slovakia

  • Slovak (official) 81.8%
  • Hungarian 8.5%
  • Roma 1.8%

 

Slovenia

  • Slovene (official) 87.7%
  • Croatian 2.8%
  • Serbo-Croatian 1.8%
  • Bosnian 1.6%
  • Serbian 1.6%
  • Hungarian
  • Italian 

 

Solomon Islands

  • Melanesian pidgin (in much of the country is lingua franca)
  • English (official)

 

Somalia

  • Somali (official) 
  • Arabic (official) 
  • Italian
  • English

 

South Africa

  • isiZulu (official) 25.3%
  • isiXhosa (official) 14.8%
  • Afrikaans (official) 12.2%
  • Sepedi (official) 10.1%
  • Setswana (official) 9.1%
  • English (official) 8.1%
  • Sesotho (official) 7.9%
  • Xitsonga (official) 3.6%
  • siSwati (official) 2.8%
  • Tshivenda (official) 2.5%
  • isiNdebele (official) 1.6%
  • Khoi
  • Nama
  • San languages

 

South Sudan

  • English (official)
  • Arabic (includes Juba and Sudanese variants)
  • ethnic languages include Dinka
  • Nuer
  • Bari
  • Zande
  • Shilluk

 

Spain

  • Castilian Spanish (official nationwide) 74%
  • Catalan (official in Cataloniathe Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community (where it is known as Valencian)) 17%
  • Galician (official in Galicia) 7%
  • Basque (official in the Basque Country and in the Basque-speaking area of Navarre) 2%
  • Aranese (official in the northwest corner of Catalonia (Vall d’Aran) along with Catalan)
  • Aragonese
  • Aranese Asturian
  • Basque
  • Calo
  • Catalan
  • Galician
  • Valencian

 

Sri Lanka

  • Sinhala (official and national language) 87%
  • Tamil (official and national language) 28.5%
  • English

 

Sudan

  • Arabic (official)
  • English (official)
  • Nubian
  • Ta Bedawie
  • Fur

 

Suriname

  • Dutch (official)
  • English
  • Sranang Tongo (Surinamesesometimes called Taki-Taki)
  • Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi)
  • Javanese

 

Svalbard

  • Norwegian
  • Russian

 

Sweden

  • Swedish (official)

 

Switzerland

  • German (or Swiss German) (official) 62.1%
  • French (official) 22.8%
  • Italian (official) 8%
  • English 5.7%
  • Portuguese 3.5%
  • Albanian 3.3%
  • Serbo-Croatian 2.3%
  • Spanish 2.3%
  • Romansh (official) 0.5%
  • German
  • French
  • Italian
  • L’Almanacco dei fatti del mondo
  • l’indispensabile fonte per le informazioni di base. (Italian)

 

Syria

  • Arabic (official)
  • Kurdish
  • Armenian
  • Aramaic
  • Circassian
  • French
  • English

 

Taiwan

  • Mandarin (official)
  • Taiwanese (Min Nan)
  • Hakka dialects

 

Tajikistan

  • Tajik (official) 84.4%
  • Uzbek 11.9%
  • Kyrgyz 0.8%
  • Russian 0.5%

 

Tanzania

  • Kiswahili or Swahili (official)
  • Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar)
  • English (official)
  • Arabic 
  • Kiswahili (Swahili)

 

Thailand

  • Thai (official) 90.7%
  • Thai
  • Malay
  • Burmese
  • English

 

Timor-Leste

  • Tetun Prasa 30.6%
  • Mambai 16.6%
  • Makasai 10.5%
  • Tetun Terik 6.1%
  • Baikenu 5.9%
  • Kemak 5.8%
  • Bunak 5.5%
  • Tokodede 4%
  • Fataluku 3.5%
  • Waima’a 1.8%
  • Galoli 1.4%
  • Naueti 1.4%
  • Idate 1.2%
  • Midiki 1.2%

 

Togo

  • French (official)
  • Ewe
  • Mina
  • Kabye (Kabiye) 
  • Dagomba 

 

Tokelau

  • Tokelauan 88.1%
  • English 48.6%
  • Samoan 26.7%
  • Tuvaluan 11.2%
  • Kiribati 1.5%

 

Tonga

  • Tongan and English 76.8%
  • Tongan
  • English
  • and other language 10.6%
  • Tongan only (official) 8.7%
  • English only (official) 0.7%

 

Trinidad and Tobago

  • English (official)
  • Trinidadian Creole English
  • Tobagonian Creole English
  • Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi)
  • Trinidadian Creole French
  • Spanish
  • Chinese

 

Tunisia

  • Arabic (official) 
  • French (commerce)
  • Berber (Tamazight)
  • French 

 

Turkey (Turkiye)

  • Turkish (official)
  • Kurdish

 

Turkmenistan

  • Turkmen (official) 72%
  • Russian 12%
  • Uzbek 9%

 

Turks and Caicos Islands

  • English (official)

 

Tuvalu

  • Tuvaluan (official)
  • English (official)
  • Samoan
  • Kiribati (on the island of Nui)

 

Uganda

  • English (official 
  • Ganda or Luganda
  • Nilo-Saharan languages
  • Swahili (official)
  • Arabic

 

Ukraine

  • Ukrainian (official) 67.5%
  • Russian 29.6%

 

United Arab Emirates

  • Arabic (official)
  • English
  • Hindi
  • Malayam
  • Urdu
  • Pashto
  • Tagalog
  • Persian

 

United Kingdom

  • English

 

United States

  • English only 78.2%
  • Spanish 13.4%
  • Chinese 1.1%

 

Uruguay

  • Spanish (official)

 

Uzbekistan

  • Uzbek (official) 74.3%
  • Russian 14.2%
  • Tajik 4.4%

 

Vanuatu

  • Bislama (official; creole) 33.7%
  • English (official) 2%
  • French (official) 0.6%

 

Venezuela

  • Spanish (official)

 

Vietnam

  • Vietnamese (official)
  • English
  • some French
  • Chinese
  • Khmer
  • Mon-Khmer 
  • Malayo-Polynesian

 

Virgin Islands

  • English 71.6%
  • Spanish or Spanish Creole 17.2%
  • French or French Creole 8.6%

 

Wallis and Futuna

  • Wallisian (indigenous Polynesian language) 58.9%
  • Futunian 30.1%
  • French (official) 10.8%

 

West Bank

  • Arabic
  • Hebrew 
  • English 

 

Yemen

  • Arabic (official) 
  • Socotri 
  • Archipelago; Mahri 

 

Zambia

  • Bemba 33.4%
  • Nyanja 14.7%
  • Tonga 11.4%
  • Lozi 5.5%
  • Chewa 4.5%
  • Nsenga 2.9%
  • Tumbuka 2.5%
  • Lunda (North Western) 1.9%
  • Kaonde 1.8%
  • Lala 1.8%
  • Lamba 1.8%
  • English (official) 1.7%
  • Luvale 1.5%
  • Mambwe 1.3%
  • Namwanga 1.2%
  • Lenje 1.1%
  • Bisa 1%

 

Zimbabwe

  • Shona (official)
  • Ndebele (official)
  • English (official)
  • Chewa
  • Chibarwe
  • Kalanga
  • Koisan
  • Nambya
  • Ndau
  • Shangani
  • sign language
  • Sotho
  • Tonga
  • Tswana
  • Venda
  • Xhosa