Ever wondered what the most widely spoken languages are in the world?

Or may be, you would like to find out:

• how many languages are there;
• how many languages in India;
• how many languages are spoken in Africa;
• what languages are spoken in Canada;
• how many languages in China;
• etc

In this post, you will sure to find all the answers to your questions.

The CIA World Factbook about languages of the world

The list “Languages spoken in each country of the world” has been compiled based on the CIA World Factbook. It is considered to be a recognized source of data on countries around the globe.

This list covers all of the major languages in each country.

What language do they speak in Afghanistan?

• Afghan Persian or Dari (official) 80% (Dari functions as the lingua franca)
• Pashto (official) 47%
• Uzbek 11%
• English 5%
• Turkmen 2%
• Urdu 2%
• Pashayi 1%
• Nuristani 1%
• Arabic 1%
• Balochi
• Shughni
• Pamiri
• Hindi
• Russian
• German
• French <.5 each>
• don’t know/refused

note 1: data represent most widely spoken languages; shares sum to more than 100% because there is much bilingualism in the country and because respondents were allowed to select more than one language
note 2: the Turkic languages Uzbek and Turkmen, as well as Balochi, Pashayi, Nuristani, and Pamiri are the third official languages in areas where the majority speaks them (2017 est.)

Language spoken in Akrotiri

• English
• Greek

What language do they speak in Albania?

• Albanian 98.8% (official – derived from Tosk dialect)
• Greek 0.5%
• other 0.6% (including Macedonian, Romani, Vlach, Turkish, Italian, and Serbo-Croatian)
• unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.)

What language is spoken in 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 language

• Samoan 88.6% (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages)
• English 3.9%
• Tongan 2.7%
• other Pacific islander 3%
• other 1.8%

Note: most people are bilingual (2010 est.)

Andorra language

• Catalan (official)
• French
• Castilian
• Portuguese

What language do they speak in 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%
• other 3.6%

Note: most widely spoken languages; shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2014 est.)

Anguilla language

• English (official)

Antigua and Barbuda language

• English (official)
• Antiguan creole

What language do they speak in Argentina

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

What language do they speak in Armenia

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

Note: Russian is widely spoken (2011 est.)

What language do they speak in Aruba

• Papiamento (official) (a creole language that is a mixture of Portuguese
• Spanish
• Dutch
• English
• and
• to a lesser extent
• French
• as well as elements of African languages and the language of the Arawak) 69.4%
• Spanish 13.7%
• English (widely spoken) 7.1%
• Dutch (official) 6.1%
• Chinese 1.5%
• other 1.7%
• unspecified 0.4% (2010 est.)

The official language of Australia

• English 72.7%
• Mandarin 2.5%
• Arabic 1.4%
• Cantonese 1.2%
• Vietnamese 1.2%
• Italian 1.2%
• Greek 1%
• other 14.8%
• unspecified 6.5%

Note: data represent language spoken at home (2016 est.)

What language do they speak in Austria?

• German (official nationwide) 88.6%
• Turkish 2.3%
• Serbian 2.2%
• Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%
• other (includes Slovene, an official in South Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 est.)

What language do they speak in Azerbaijan?

• Azerbaijani (Azeri) (official) 92.5%
• Russian 1.4%
• Armenian 1.4%
• other 4.7% (2009 est.)

What language do they speak in the Bahamas

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

What language is spoken in Bahrain?

• Arabic (official)
• English
• Farsi
• Urdu

What language do they speak in Bangladesh

• Bangla 98.8% (official, also known as Bengali)
• other 1.2% (2011 est.)

Barbados official language

• English (official)
• Bajan (English-based creole language, widely spoken in informal settings)

What language do they speak in Belarus

• Russian (official) 70.2%
• Belarusian (official) 23.4%
• other 3.1% (includes small Polish- and Ukrainian-speaking minorities)
• unspecified 3.3% (2009 est.)

What language do they speak in Belgium

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

What language do they speak in Belize?

• English 62.9% (official)
• Spanish 56.6%
• Creole 44.6%
• Maya 10.5%
• German 3.2%
• Garifuna 2.9%
• other 1.8%
• unknown 0.3%
• none 0.2% (cannot speak)

Note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2010 est.)

What is the official language of Benin?

• French (official)
• Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south)
• tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)

What language do they speak in Bermuda

• English (official)
• Portuguese

Bhutan official language

• Sharchhopka 28%
• Dzongkha (official) 24%
• Lhotshamkha 22%
• other 26% (includes foreign languages) (2005 est.)

What language do they speak in Bolivia?

• Spanish (official) 60.7%
• Quechua (official) 21.2%
• Aymara (official) 14.6%
• foreign languages 2.4%
• Guarani (official) 0.6%
• other native languages 0.4%
• none 0.1%

Note: Bolivia’s 2009 constitution designates Spanish and all indigenous languages as official; 36 indigenous languages are specified, including a few that are extinct (2001 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina language

• Bosnian (official) 52.9%
• Serbian (official) 30.8%
• Croatian (official) 14.6%
• other 1.6%
• no answer 0.2% (2013 est.)

What language is spoken in 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% (2011 est.)

What is the official language of Brazil

• Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language)

Note: less common languages include Spanish (border areas and schools)

• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• English
• and a large number of minor Amerindian languages

What language do they speak in the Virgin Islands?

• English (official)

Brunei Language

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

What language do they speak in Bulgaria?

• Bulgarian (official) 76.8%
• Turkish 8.2%
• Romani 3.8%
• other 0.7%
• unspecified 10.5% (2011 est.)

Burkina Faso language

• French (official)
• native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population

What language do people from Burma speak?

• Burmese (official)

Note: minority ethnic groups use their own languages

Burundi language

• Kirundi 29.7% (official)
• Kirundi and other language 9.1%
• French (official); French and other language 0.3%
• Swahili; Swahili and other language 0.2% (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)
• English (official); English and other language 0.06%
• more than 2 languages 3.7%
• unspecified 56.9%

Note: data represent language read and written by people 10 years of age or older; spoken Kirundi is nearly universal (2008 est.)

Cape Verde language

• Portuguese (official)
• Crioulo (a blend of Portuguese and West African words)

Cambodia language

• Khmer (official) 96.3%
• other 3.7% (2008 est.)

Cameroon language

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

What language do they speak in 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%
• other 10.5% (2011 est.)

Cayman Islands language

• English (official) 90.9%
• Spanish 4%
• Filipino 3.3%
• other 1.7%
• unspecified 0.1% (2010 est.)

Central African Republic language

• French (official)
• Sangho (lingua franca and national language)
• tribal languages

Chad language

• French (official)
• Arabic (official)
• Sara (in south)
• more than 120 different languages and dialects

What do they speak in Chile?

• Spanish 99.5% (official)
• English 10.2%
• indigenous 1% (includes Mapudungun, Aymara, Quechua, Rapa Nui)
• other 2.3%
• unspecified 0.2%

note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2012 est.)

What language do they speak in China

• Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect)
• Yue (Cantonese)
• Wu (Shanghainese)
• Minbei (Fuzhou)
• Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese)
• Xiang
• Gan
• Hakka dialects
• minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry)

Note: Zhuang is official in Guangxi Zhuang

• Yue is official in Guangdong
• Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol
• Uighur is official in Xinjiang Uygur
• Kyrgyz is official in Xinjiang Uygur
• and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet)

What is the official language of Christmas Island?

• English (official) 27.6%
• Mandarin 17.2%
• Malay 17.1%
• Cantonese 3.9%
• Min Nan 1.6%
• Tagalog 1%
• other 4.5%
• unspecified 27.1%

Note: data represent language spoken at home (2016 est.)

Oficial language of Cocos Islands

• English 22.3%
• Malay (Cocos dialect) 68.8%
• unspecified 8.9%

• Note: data represent language spoken at home (2016 est.)

Colombia language

• Spanish (official)

Comorian language

• Arabic (official)
• French (official)
• Shikomoro (official; a blend of Swahili and Arabic) (Comorian)

What is the official language of Democratic Republic of Congo

• French (official)
• Lingala (a lingua franca trade language)
• Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili)
• Kikongo
• Tshiluba

Congo language

• French (official)
• Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages)
• many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread)

Cook Islands language

• English (official) 86.4%
• Cook Islands Maori (Rarotongan) (official) 76.2%
• other 8.3%

Note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2011 est.)

Costa Rica language

• Spanish (official)
• English

Cote d’Ivoire language

• French (official)
• 60 native dialects of which Dioula is the most widely spoken

What language do they speak in Croatia

• Croatian (official) 95.6%
• Serbian 1.2%
• other 3% (including Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Albanian)
• unspecified 0.2% (2011 est.)

Cuba language

• Spanish (official)

Curacao language

• Papiamento (official) (a creole language that is a mixture of Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English, and, to a lesser extent, French, as well as elements of African languages and the language of the Arawak) 81.2%
• Dutch (official) 8%
• Spanish 4%
• English (official) 2.9%
• other 3.9% (2001 census)

Cyprus language

• 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%
• other 4.3%
• unspecified 0.6%

Note: data represent only the government-controlled area of Cyprus (2011 est.)

Czechia official language

• Czech (official) 95.4%
• Slovak 1.6%
• other 3% (2011 census)

What language do they speak in Denmark

• Danish
• Faroese
• Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect)
• German (small minority)

Note: English is the predominant second language

Dhekelia language

• English
• Greek

Djibouti language

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

Dominica language

• English (official)
• French patois

Dominican Republic language

• Spanish (official)

What language is spoken in Ecuador

• Spanish (Castilian) 93% (official)
• Quechua 4.1%
• other indigenous 0.7%
• foreign 2.2%

Note: (Quechua and Shuar are official languages of intercultural relations; other indigenous languages are in official use by indigenous peoples in the areas they inhabit) (2010 est.)

Egypt language

• Arabic (official)
• English and French widely understood by educated classes

El Salvador language

• Spanish (official)
• Nawat (among some Amerindians)

Equatorial Guinea official language

• Spanish (official) 67.6%
• other (includes French (official), Fang, Bubi) 32.4% (1994 census)

Eritrea language

• Tigrinya (official)
• Arabic (official)
• English (official)
• Tigre
• Kunama
• Afar
• other Cushitic languages

What language is spoken in Estonia

• Estonian (official) 68.5%
• Russian 29.6%
• Ukrainian 0.6%
• other 1.2%
• unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.)

Eswatini official language

• English (official, used for government business)
• siSwati (official)

What language do they speak in 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 (2007 est.)

Most widely spoken native language in the 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

Note: only the 24 official languages are listed; German, the major language of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, is the most widely spoken mother tongue – about 16% of the EU population; English is the most widely spoken foreign language – about 38% of the EU population is conversant with it (2012)

Falkland Islands language

• English 89%
• Spanish 7.7%
• other 3.3% (2006 est.)

Faroe Islands language

• Faroese 93.8% (derived from Old Norse)
• Danish 3.2%
• other 3% (2011 est.)

What language is spoken in Fiji

• English (official)
• Fijian (official)
• Hindustani

What language do they speak in Finland?

• Finnish (official) 87.9%
• Swedish (official) 5.2%
• Russian 1.4%
• other 5.5% (2017 est.)

What language is spoken in Paris

• French (official) 100%
• declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish, Occitan, Picard)
  overseas departments: French, Creole patois, Mahorian (a Swahili dialect)

French Polynesia language

• French (official) 70%
• Polynesian (official) 28.2%
• other 1.8% (2012 est.)

Gabon language

• French (official)
• Fang
• Myene
• Nzebi
• Bapounou/Eschira
• Bandjabi

Gambia language

• English (official)
• Mandinka
• Wolof
• Fula
• other indigenous vernaculars

Gaza Strip language

• Arabic
• Hebrew (spoken by many Palestinians)
• English (widely understood)

What language do they speak in Georgia

• Georgian (official) 87.6%
• Azeri 6.2%
• Armenian 3.9%
• Russian 1.2%
• other 1%

Note: Abkhaz is the official language in Abkhazia (2014 est.)

Germany’s language

• German (official

Note: Danish, Frisian, Sorbian, and Romani are official minority languages; Low German, Danish, North Frisian, Sater Frisian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, and Romani are recognized as regional languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Ghana language

• 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%
• other 31.2%

Note: English is the official language (2010 est.)

Gibraltar language

• English (used in schools and for official purposes)
• Spanish
• Italian
• Portuguese

What language do they speak in Greece

• Greek (official) 99%
• other (includes English and French) 1%

What language does Greenland speak

• Greenlandic (East Inuit) (official)
• Danish (official)
• English

What language do they speak in Grenada

• English (official)
• French patois

What language is spoken in Guam

• English 43.6%
• Filipino 21.2%
• Chamorro 17.8%
• other Pacific island languages 10%
• Asian languages 6.3%
• other 1.1% (2010 est.)

What language do they speak in Guatemala

• Spanish (official) 68.9%
• Maya languages 30.9% (K’iche 8.7%
• Q’eqchi 7%
• Mam 4.6%
• Kaqchikel 4.3%
• other 6.3%)
• other 0.3% (includes Xinca and Garifuna)

Note: the 2003 Law of National Languages officially recognized 23 indigenous languages, including 21 Maya languages, Xinka, and Garifuna (2001 est.)

Guernsey language

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

Guinea language

• French (official)
• Pular
• Maninka
• Susu
• other native languages

Note: each ethnic group has its own language

Guinea bissau language

• Crioulo (lingua franca)
• Portuguese (official; largely used as a second or third language)
• Pular (a Fula language)
• Mandingo

Guyana language

• English (official)
• Guyanese Creole
• Amerindian languages (including Caribbean and Arawak languages)
• Indian languages (including Caribbean Hindustani
• a dialect of Hindi)
• Chinese (2014 est.)
• French (official)
• Creole (official)
• Italian
• Latin
• French
• various other languages

What languages do they speak in Honduras

• Spanish (official)
• Amerindian dialects

What language do they speak in Hong Kong?

• Cantonese (official) 88.9%
• English (official) 4.3%
• Mandarin (official) 1.9%
• other Chinese dialects 3.1%
• other 1.9% (2016 est.)

Language of Hungary

• Hungarian (official) 99.6%
• English 16%
• German 11.2%
• Russian 1.6%
• Romanian 1.3%
• French 1.2%
• other 4.2%

Note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census; Hungarian is the mother tongue of 98.9% of Hungarian speakers (2011 est.)

What language do they speak in Iceland

• Icelandic
• English
• Nordic languages
• German

Languages in 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%
• other 5.6%

Note: English enjoys the status of subsidiary official language but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; there are 22 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 spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language (2011 est.)

What language is spoken in Indonesia

• Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay)
• English
• Dutch
• local dialects (of which the most widely spoken is Javanese)

Note: more than 700 languages are used in Indonesia

What language do they speak in Iran

• Persian (official)
• Azeri Turkic and Turkic dialects
• Kurdish
• Gilaki and Mazandarani
• Luri
• Balochi
• Arabic
• other

What language is spoken in Iraq?

• Arabic (official)
• Kurdish (official)
• Turkmen (a Turkish dialect)
• Syriac (Neo-Aramaic), and Armenian are official in areas where native speakers of these languages constitute a majority of the population)

What language do they speak in Ireland

• English (official, the language generally used)
• Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (official, spoken by approximately 39.8% of the population as of 2016; mainly spoken in areas along Ireland’s western coast known as gaeltachtai, which are officially recognized regions where Irish is the predominant language)

Isle of Man language

• English
• Manx Gaelic (about 2% of the population has some knowledge)

What language do they speak in Israel

• Hebrew (official)
• Arabic (used officially for Arab minority)
• English (most commonly used foreign language)

All languages spoken in Italy

• Italian (official)
• German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German speaking)
• French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d’Aosta region)
• Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)

What language do they speak in Jamaica?

• English
• English patois

What language do they speak in Japan?

• Japanese

Jersey language

• English 94.5% (official)
• Portuguese 4.6%
• other 0.9% (2001 census)

What language do they speak in Jordan

• Arabic (official)
• English (widely understood among upper and middle classes)

What language do they speak in Kazakhstan?

• Arabic (official)
• English (widely understood among upper and middle classes)

What language do they speak in Kenya?

• English (official)
• Kiswahili (official)
• numerous indigenous languages

Kiribati language

• I-Kiribati
• English (official)

What language do they speak in North Korea?

• Korean

What language do they speak in South Korea?

• Korean
• English (widely taught in elementary, junior high, and high school)

Kosovo language

• Albanian (official) 94.5%
• Bosnian 1.7%
• Serbian (official) 1.6%
• Turkish 1.1%
• other 0.9% (includes Romani)
• unspecified 0.1%

Note: in municipalities where a community’s mother tongue is not one of Kosovo’s official languages, the language of that community may be given official status according to the 2006 Law on the Use of Languages (2011 est.)

Kuwait language

• Arabic (official)
• English widely spoken

Kyrgyzstan language

• Kyrgyz (official) 71.4%
• Uzbek 14.4%
• Russian (official) 9%
• other 5.2% (2009 est.)

Laos language

• Lao (official)
• French
• English
• various ethnic languages

What language is spoken in Latvia?

• Latvian (official) 56.3%
• Russian 33.8%
• other 0.6% (includes Polish
• Ukrainian
• and Belarusian)
• unspecified 9.4%

Note: data represent language usually spoken at home (2011 est.)

What language do they speak in Lebanon?

• Arabic (official)
• French
• English
• Armenian

Lesotho language

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

Liberia language

• English 20% (official)
• some 20 ethnic group languages few of which can be written or used in correspondence

Libya language

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

What is the official language of liechtenstein?

• German 91.5% (official) (Alemannic is the main dialect)
• Italian 1.5%
• Turkish 1.3%
• Portuguese 1.1%
• other 4.6% (2015 est.)

What language do they speak in Lithuania?

• Lithuanian (official) 82%
• Russian 8%
• Polish 5.6%
• other 0.9%
• unspecified 3.5% (2011 est.)

What language do they speak in Luxembourg?

• Luxembourgish (official administrative and judicial language and national language (spoken vernacular)) 55.8%
• Portuguese 15.7%
• French (official administrative, judicial, and legislative language) 12.1%
• German (official administrative and judicial language) 3.1%
• Italian 2.9%
• English 2.1%
• other 8.4% (2011 est.)

Macau language

• Cantonese 80.1%
• Mandarin 5.5%
• other Chinese dialects 5.3%
• Tagalog 3%
• English 2.8%
• Portuguese 0.6%
• other 2.8%

Note: Chinese and Portuguese are official languages (2016 est.)

Macedonia language

• Macedonian (official) 66.5%
• Albanian 25.1%
• Turkish 3.5%
• Romani 1.9%
• Serbian 1.2%
• other 1.8% (2002 est.)

Note: minority languages are co-official with Macedonian in municipalities where they are spoken by at least 20% of the population; Albanian is co-official in Tetovo, Brvenica, Vrapciste, and other municipalities; Turkish is co-official in Centar Zupa and Plasnica; Romani is co-official in Suto Orizari; Aromanian is co-official in Krusevo; Serbian is co-official in Cucer Sandevo

Official language of Madagascar

• French (official)
• Malagasy (official)
• English

What language is spoken in Malawi

• English (official)
• Chichewa (common)
• Chinyanja
• Chiyao
• Chitumbuka
• Chilomwe
• Chinkhonde
• Chingoni
• Chisena
• Chitonga
• Chinyakyusa
• Chilambya

What language do they speak in Malaysia?

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

Note: Malaysia has 134 living languages – 112 indigenous languages and 22 non-indigenous languages; in East Malaysia there are several indigenous languages; most widely spoken are Iban and Kadazan

Maldives language

• Dhivehi (official, dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic)
• English (spoken by most government officials)

Mali language

• French (official)
• Bambara 46.3%
• Peul/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%
• unspecified 0.7%
• other 6.3%

Note: Mali has 13 national languages in addition to its official language (2009 est.)

What language is spoken in Malta?

• Maltese (official) 90.1%
• English (official) 6%
• multilingual 3%
• other 0.9% (2005 est.)

Marshallese language

• Marshallese (official) 98.2%
• other languages 1.8% (1999 census)

Note: English (official), widely spoken as a second language

Mauritania language

• Arabic (official and national)
• Pular
• Soninke
• Wolof (all national languages)
• French

Note: the spoken Arabic in Mauritania differs considerably from the modern standard Arabic used for official written purposes or in the media; the Mauritanian dialect, which incorporates many Berber words, is referred to as Hassaniya

Mauritius language

• Creole 86.5%
• Bhojpuri 5.3%
• French 4.1%
• two languages 1.4%
• other 2.6% (includes English, the official language of the National Assembly, which is spoken by less than 1% of the population)
• unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.)

Mexico official language

• Spanish only 92.7%
• Spanish and indigenous languages 5.7%
• indigenous only 0.8%
• unspecified 0.8%

Note: indigenous languages include various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional languages (2005)

Micronesia language

• English (official and common language)
• Chuukese
• Kosrean
• Pohnpeian
• Yapese
• Ulithian
• Woleaian
• Nukuoro
• Kapingamarangi

Moldova language

• Moldovan/Romanian 80.2% (official) (56.7% identify their mother tongue as Moldovan, which is virtually the same as Romanian; 23.5% identify Romanian as their mother tongue)
• Russian 9.7%
• Gagauz 4.2% (a Turkish language)
• Ukrainian 3.9%
• Bulgarian 1.5%
• Romani 0.3%
• other 0.2% (2014 est.)

Note: data represent mother tongue

Monaco language

• French (official)
• English
• Italian
• Monegasque

Mongolia language

• Mongolian 90% (official) (Khalkha dialect is predominant)
• Turkic
• Russian (1999)

What language do they speak in Montenegro?

• Serbian 42.9%
• Montenegrin (official) 37%
• Bosnian 5.3%
• Albanian 5.3%
• Serbo-Croat 2%
• other 3.5%
• unspecified 4% (2011 est.)

Montserrat language

• English

Morocco language

• Arabic (official)
• Berber languages (Tamazight (official), Tachelhit, Tarifit)
• French (often the language of business, government, and diplomacy)

Note: the proportion of Berber speakers is disputed

What language do they speak in Mozambique?

• Emakhuwa 25.3%
• Portuguese (official) 10.7%
• Xichangana 10.3%
• Cisena 7.5%
• Elomwe 7%
• Echuwabo 5.1%
• other Mozambican languages 30.1%
• other 0.3%
• unspecified 3.7% (2007 est.)

Official language of Namibia

• Oshiwambo languages 49.7%
• Nama/Damara 11%
• Kavango languages 10.4%
• Afrikaans 9.4% (common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population)
• Herero languages 9.2%
• Zambezi languages 4.9%
• English (official) 2.3%
• other African languages 1.5%
• other European languages 0.7%
• other 1%

Note: Namibia has 13 recognized national languages, including 10 indigenous African languages and 3 Indo-European languages (2016 est.)

Nauru language

• Nauruan 93% (official, a distinct Pacific Island language)
• English 2% (widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes)
• other 5% (includes I-Kiribati 2% and Chinese 2%)

Note: percentages represent main language spoken at home; Nauruan is spoken by 95% of the population, English by 66%, and other languages by 12% (2011 est.)

What language do they speak in Nepal?

• Nepali (official) 44.6%
• Maithali 11.7%
• Bhojpuri 6%
• Tharu 5.8%
• Tamang 5.1%
• Newar 3.2%
• Magar 3%
• Bajjika 3%
• Urdu 2.6%
• Avadhi 1.9%
• Limbu 1.3%
• Gurung 1.2%
• other 10.4%
• unspecified 0.2%

Note: 123 languages reported as mother tongue in 2011 national census; many in government and business also speak English (2011 est.)

Language of the Netherlands

• Dutch (official)

Note: Frisian is an official language in Fryslan province; Frisian, Low Saxon, Limburgish, Romani, and Yiddish have protected status under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; Dutch is the official language of the three special municipalities of the Caribbean Netherlands; English is a recognized regional language on Sint Eustatius and Saba; Papiamento is a recognized regional language on Bonaire

New Caledonia language

• French (official)
• 33 Melanesian-Polynesian dialects

New Zealand language

• English (de facto official) 89.8%
• Maori (de jure official) 3.5%
• Samoan 2%
• Hindi 1.6%
• French 1.2%
• Northern Chinese 1.2%
• Yue 1%
• other or not stated 20.5%
• New Zealand Sign Language (de jure official)

Note: shares sum to 120.8% due to multiple responses on census (2013 est.)

Nicaragua language

• Spanish (official) 95.3%
• Miskito 2.2%
• Mestizo of the Caribbean coast 2%
• other 0.5%

Note: English and indigenous languages found on the Caribbean coast (2005 est.)

Official language of niger

• French (official)
• Hausa
• Djerma

Nigeria language

• English (official)
• Hausa
• Yoruba
• Igbo (Ibo)
• Fulani
• over 500 additional indigenous languages

Niue language

• Niuean (official) 46% (a Polynesian language closely related to Tongan and Samoan)
• Niuean and English 32%
• English (official) 11%
• Niuean and others 5%
• other 6% (2011 est.)

Official language of Norfolk Island

• English (official) 44.9%
• Norfolk (also known as Norfuk or Norf’k, which is a mixture of 18th century English and ancient Tahitian) 40.3%
• Fijian 1.8%
• other 6.8%
• unspecified 6.2%

Note: data represent language spoken at home (2016 est.)

Northern Mariana Islands language

• Philippine languages 32.8%
• Chamorro (official) 24.1%
• English (official) 17%
• other Pacific island languages 10.1%
• Chinese 6.8%
• other Asian languages 7.3%
• other 1.9% (2010 est.)

What language do they speak in Norway

• Bokmal Norwegian (official)
• Nynorsk Norwegian (official)
• small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities

Note: Sami has three dialects: Lule, North Sami, and South Sami; Sami is an official language in nine municipalities in Norway’s three northernmost countries: Finnmark, Nordland, and Troms

Language spoken in Oman

• Arabic (official)
• English
• Baluchi
• Urdu
• Indian dialects

What is Pakistan language

• 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; lingua franca of Pakistani elite and most government ministries)
• Burushaski
• and other 8%

What language do they speak in Palau?

• Palauan (official on most islands) 65.2%
• other Micronesian 1.9%
• English (official) 19.1%
• Filipino 9.9%
• Chinese 1.2%
• other 2.8%

Note: Sonsoralese is official in Sonsoral; Tobian is official in Tobi; Angaur and Japanese are official in Angaur (2015 est.)

What language do they speak in Panama?

• Spanish (official)
• indigenous languages (including Ngabere (or Guaymi), Buglere, Kuna, Embera, Wounaan, Naso (or Teribe), and Bri Bri)
• Panamanian English Creole (similar to Jamaican English Creole; a mixture of English and Spanish with elements of Ngabere; also known as Guari Guari and Colon Creole)
• English
• Chinese (Yue and Hakka)
• Arabic
• French Creole
• other (Yiddish, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese)

Note: many Panamanians are bilingual

What language do they speak in Papua New Guinea?

• Tok Pisin (official)
• English (official)
• Hiri Motu (official)
• some 839 indigenous languages spoken (about 12% of the world’s total); many languages have fewer than 1, 000 speakers

Note: Tok Pisin, a creole language, is widely used and understood; English is spoken by 1%-2%; Hiri Motu is spoken by less than 2%

Paraguay language

• Spanish (official)
• Guarani (official)

What language do they speak in Peru?

• Spanish (official) 82.9%
• Quechua (official) 13.6%
• Aymara (official) 1.6%
• other native languages (includes a large number of minor Amazonian languages) 0.8%
• other (includes foreign languages and sign language) 0.2%
• none 0.1%
• unspecified 0.7% (2017 est.)

Philippines language

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

Pitcairn Islands language

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

What language do they speak in Poland?

• Polish (official) 98.2%
• Silesian 1.4%
• other 1.1%
• unspecified 1.3%

Note: data represents the language spoken at home; shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census; Poland ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in 2009 recognizing Kashub as a regional language

• Czech
• Hebrew
• Yiddish
• Belarusian
• Lithuanian
• German
• Armenian
• Russian
• Slovak
• and Ukrainian as national minority languages
• and Karaim
• Lemko
• Romani (Polska Roma and Bergitka Roma)
• and Tatar as ethnic minority languages (2011 est.)

What language do they speak in Portugal?

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

What language does Puerto Rico speak?

• Spanish
• English

Qatar language

• Arabic (official)
• English commonly used as a second language

Romania language

• Romanian (official) 85.4%
• Hungarian 6.3%
• Romani 1.2%
• other 1%
• unspecified 6.1% (2011 est.)

What language does Russia speak

• Russian (official) 85.7%
• Tatar 3.2%
• Chechen 1%
• other 10.1%

Note: data represent native language spoken (2010 est.). In case you need Russian translation services, you can contact us directly.

Rwanda language

• Kinyarwanda (official, universal Bantu vernacular) 93.2%
• French (official) <.1>
• English (official) <.1>
• Swahili/Kiswahili (official, used in commercial centers) <.1 more than one language>
• other 6.3%
• unspecified 0.3%
• (2002 est.)

Saint Barthelemy – languages

• French (primary)
• English

Saint Helena – languages

• English

Saint Kitts and Nevis language

• English (official)

St Lucia language

• English (official)
• French patois

Saint Martin language

• French (official)
• English
• Dutch
• French Patois
• Spanish
• Papiamento (dialect of Netherlands Antilles)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon official language

• French (official)

St Vincent and the Grenadines language

• English
• Vincentian Creole English
• French patois

Samoa language

• Samoan (Polynesian) (official) 91.1%
• Somoan/English 6.7%
• English (official) 0.5%
• other 0.2%
• unspecified 1.6% (2006 est.)

San Marino language

• Italian

Official language of 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%
• other (including sign language) 2.4%

Note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2012 est.)

Saudi Arabia language

• Arabic (official)

Widely spoken language in Senegal

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

Serbia language

• Serbian (official) 88.1%
• Hungarian 3.4%
• Bosnian 1.9%
• Romani 1.4%
• other 3.4%
• undeclared or unknown 1.8%

Note: Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, Romanian, Croatian, and Ruthenian (Rusyn) are official in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina; most ethnic Albanians boycotted the 2011 census (2011 est.)

Seychelles language

• Seychellois Creole (official) 89.1%
• English (official) 5.1%
• French (official) 0.7%
• other 3.8%
• unspecified 1.4% (2010 est.)

Sierra Leone language

• English (official, regular use limited to literate minority)
• Mende (principal vernacular in the south)
• Temne (principal vernacular in the north)
• Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)

Singapore language

• English (official) 36.9%
• Mandarin (official) 34.9%
• other Chinese dialects (includes Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew) 12.2%
• Malay (official) 10.7%
• Tamil (official) 3.3%
• other 2%

Note:: data represent language most frequently spoken at home (2015 est.)

Sint Maarten language

• 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%
• other 3.5% (2001 census)

Slovakia language

• Slovak (official) 78.6%
• Hungarian 9.4%
• Roma 2.3%
• Ruthenian 1%
• other or unspecified 8.8% (2011 est.)

Slovenia language

• Slovenian (official) 91.1%
• Serbo-Croatian 4.5%
• other or unspecified 4.4%
• Italian (official, only in municipalities where Italian national communities reside)
• Hungarian (official, only in municipalities where Hungarian national communities reside) (2002 census)

Solomon Islands language

• Melanesian pidgin (in much of the country is lingua franca)
• English (official but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population)
• 120 indigenous languages

Somalia official language

• Somali (official, according to the 2012 Transitional Federal Charter)
• Arabic (official, according to the 2012 Transitional Federal Charter)
• Italian
• English

Language group of Southern Africa

• isiZulu (official) 22.7%
• isiXhosa (official) 16%
• Afrikaans (official) 13.5%
• English (official) 9.6%
• Sepedi (official) 9.1%
• Setswana (official) 8%
• Sesotho (official) 7.6%
• Xitsonga (official) 4.5%
• siSwati (official) 2.5%
• Tshivenda (official) 2.4%
• isiNdebele (official) 2.1%
• sign language 0.5%
• other 1.6% (2011 est.)

South Sudan language

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

Spain’s language

• Castilian Spanish (official nationwide) 74%
• Catalan (official in Catalonia, the 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,

Note: Aragonese, Aranese Asturian, Basque, Calo, Catalan, Galician, and Valencian are recognized as regional languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Sri Lanka language

• Sinhala (official and national language) 74%
• Tamil (official and national language) 18%
• other 8%

Note: English, spoken competently by about 10% of the population, is commonly used in government and is referred to as the link language in the constitution

Sudan language

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

Suriname language

• Dutch (official)
• English (widely spoken)
• Sranang Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is the native language of Creoles and much of the younger population and is lingua franca among others)
• Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi)
• Javanese

Svalbard language

• Norwegian
• Russian

Main language in Sweden

• Swedish (official)

Note: Finnish, Sami, Romani, Yiddish, and Meankieli are official minority languages

Switzerland language

• German (or Swiss German) (official) 63%
• French (official) 22.7%
• Italian (official) 8.1%
• English 4.9%
• Portuguese 3.7%
• Albanian 3%
• Serbo-Croatian 2.4%
• Spanish 2.2%
• Romansch (official) 0.5%
• other 7.1%

Note: German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all national and official languages; totals more than 100% because some respondents indicated more than one main language (2015 est.)

National languages of Syria

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

Taiwan language

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

Tajikistan language

• Tajik (official)
• Russian widely used in government and business

Note: different ethnic groups speak Uzbek, Kyrgyz, and Pashto

Tanzania language

• Kiswahili or Swahili (official)
• Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar)
• English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education)
• Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar)
• many local languages

Note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is 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; it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages

What language do they speak in Thailand?

• Thai (official) 90.7%
• Burmese 1.3%
• other 8%

Note: English is a secondary language of the elite (2010 est.)

Timor-Leste language

• 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%
• other 4.5%

Note: data represent population by mother tongue; Tetun and Portuguese are official languages; Indonesian and English are working languages; there are about 32 indigenous languages

Togo language

• French (official, the language of commerce)
• 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 language

• Tokelauan 88.1% (a Polynesian language)
• English 48.6%
• Samoan 26.7%
• Tuvaluan 11.2%
• Kiribati 1.5%
• other 2.8%
• none 2.8%
• unspecified 0.8%

Note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2016 ests.)

What language do they speak in Tonga

• Tongan and English 76.8%
• Tongan
• English
• and other language 10.6%
• Tongan only (official) 8.7%
• English only (official) 0.7%
• other 1.7%
• none 2.2%

Note: data represent persons aged 5 and older who can read and write a simple sentence in Tongan, English, or another language (2016 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago language

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

Tunisia language

• Arabic (official, one of the languages of commerce)
• French (commerce)
• Berber (Tamazight)

Note: despite having no official status, French plays a major role in the country and is spoken by about two-thirds of the population

What language do they speak in Turkey?

• Turkish (official)
• Kurdish
• other minority languages

Turkmenistan language

• Turkmen (official) 72%
• Russian 12%
• Uzbek 9%
• other 7%

Turks and Caicos Islands language

• English (official)

Tuvalu language

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

Uganda language

• English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts)
• Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school)
• other Niger-Congo languages
• Nilo-Saharan languages
• Swahili
• Arabic

Ukraine language

• Ukrainian (official) 67.5%
• Russian (regional language) 29.6%
• other (includes small Crimean Tatar-, Moldovan/Romanian-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities) 2.9% (2001 est.)

Note: in February 2018, the Constitutional Court ruled that 2012 language legislation entitling a language spoken by at least 10% of an oblast’s population to be given the status of regional language – allowing for its use in courts, schools, and other government institutions – was unconstitutional, thus making the law invalid; Ukrainian remains the country’s only official nationwide language. If you need Ukrainian translation service, you can contact us directly.

United Arab Emirates language

• Arabic (official)
• Persian
• English
• Hindi
• Urdu

United Kingdom language

• English

Note: the following are recognized regional languages: Scots (about 30% of the population of Scotland)

• Scottish Gaelic (about 60, 000 in Scotland)
• Welsh (about 20% of the population of Wales)
• Irish (about 10% of the population of Northern Ireland)
• Cornish (some 2, 000 to 3, 000 people in Cornwall) (2012 est.)

Official language of USA

• English 79%
• Spanish 13%
• other Indo-European 3.7%
• Asian and Pacific island 3.4%
• other 1% (2015 est.)

Note: data represent the language spoken at home; the US has no official national language, but English has acquired official status in 32 of the 50 states; Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii, and 20 indigenous languages are official in Alaska

Uruguay language

• Spanish (official)

Uzbekistan language

• Uzbek (official) 74.3%
• Russian 14.2%
• Tajik 4.4%
• other 7.1%

Note: in the Karakalpakstan Republic

• both the Karakalpak language and Uzbek have official status

Vanuatu language

• local languages (more than 100) 63.2%
• Bislama (official; creole) 33.7%
• English (official) 2%
• French (official) 0.6%
• other 0.5% (2009 est.)

Venezuela language

• Spanish (official)
• numerous indigenous dialects

What language do they speak in Vietnam?

• Vietnamese (official)
• English (increasingly favored as a second language)
• some French
• Chinese
• and Khmer
• mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)

Virgin Islands language

• English 71.6%
• Spanish or Spanish Creole 17.2%
• French or French Creole 8.6%
• other 2.5% (2010 est.)

Wallis and Futuna language

• Wallisian (indigenous Polynesian language) 58.9%
• Futunian 30.1%
• French (official) 10.8%
• other 0.2% (2003 census)

West Bank language

• Arabic
• Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers and many Palestinians)
• English (widely understood)

Western Sahara language

• Standard Arabic
• Hassaniya Arabic
• Moroccan Arabic
• Berber
• Spanish
• French

Most spoken language in the world

• Mandarin Chinese 12.3%
• Spanish 6%
• English 5.1%
• Arabic 5.1%
• Hindi 3.5%
• Bengali 3.3%
• Portuguese 3%
• Russian 2.1%
• Japanese 1.7%
• Punjabi
• Western 1.3%
• Javanese 1.1% (2018 est.)

Note