Language by Countries
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| # | Country | Languages (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afghanistan | Afghan Persian or Dari (official) 50%, Pashto (official) 35%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11%, 30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai) 4%, much bilingualism |
| 2 | Akrotiri | English, Greek |
| 3 | Albania | Albanian (official – derived from Tosk dialect), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects |
| 4 | Algeria | Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects |
| 5 | American Samoa | Samoan 90.6% (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), English 2.9%, Tongan 2.4%, other Pacific islander 2.1%, other 2% |
| 6 | Andorra | Catalan (official), French, Castilian, Portuguese |
| 7 | Angola | Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages |
| 8 | Anguilla | English (official) |
| 9 | Antigua and Barbuda | English (official), local dialects |
| 10 | Argentina | Spanish (official), Italian, English, German, French |
| 11 | Armenia | Armenian (official) 97.7%, Yezidi 1%, Russian 0.9%, other 0.4% (2001 census) |
| 12 | Aruba | Papiamento (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect) 66.3%, Spanish 12.6%, English (widely spoken) 7.7%, Dutch (official) 5.8%, other 2.2%, unspecified or unknown 5.3% (2000 census) |
| 13 | Australia | English 78.5%, Chinese 2.5%, Italian 1.6%, Greek 1.3%, Arabic 1.2%, Vietnamese 1%, other 8.2%, unspecified 5.7% (2006 Census) |
| 14 | Austria | German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene, official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census) |
| 15 | Azerbaijan | Azerbaijani (Azeri) (official) 90.3%, Lezgi 2.2%, Russian 1.8%, Armenian 1.5%, other 3.3%, unspecified 1% (1999 census) |
| 16 | Bahamas, The | English (official), Creole (among Haitian immigrants) |
| 17 | Bahrain | Arabic (official), English, Farsi, Urdu |
| 18 | Bangladesh | Bangla (official, also known as Bengali), English |
| 19 | Barbados | English |
| 20 | Belarus | Belarusian (official) 36.7%, Russian (official) 62.8%, other 0.5% (includes small Polish- and Ukrainian-speaking minorities) (1999 census) |
| 21 | Belgium | Dutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%, legally bilingual (Dutch and French) |
| 22 | Belize | Spanish 46%, Creole 32.9%, Mayan dialects 8.9%, English 3.9% (official), Garifuna 3.4% (Carib), German 3.3%, other 1.4%, unknown 0.2% (2000 census) |
| 23 | Benin | French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north) |
| 24 | Bermuda | English (official), Portuguese |
| 25 | Bhutan | Sharchhopka 28%, Dzongkha (official) 24%, Lhotshamkha 22%, other 26% (2005 Census) |
| 26 | Bolivia | Spanish (official) 60.7%, Quechua (official) 21.2%, Aymara (official) 14.6%, foreign languages 2.4%, other 1.2% (2001 census) |
| 27 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnian (official), Croatian (official), Serbian |
| 28 | Botswana | Setswana 78.2%, Kalanga 7.9%, Sekgalagadi 2.8%, English (official) 2.1%, other 8.6%, unspecified 0.4% (2001 census) |
| 29 | Brazil | Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language) |
| 30 | British Virgin Islands | English (official) |
| 31 | Brunei | Malay (official), English, Chinese |
| 32 | Bulgaria | Bulgarian (official) 84.5%, Turkish 9.6%, Roma 4.1%, other and unspecified 1.8% (2001 census) |
| 33 | Burkina Faso | French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population |
| 34 | Burma | Burmese (official) |
| 35 | Burundi | Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area) |
| 36 | Cambodia | Khmer (official) 95%, French, English |
| 37 | Cameroon | 24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official) |
| 38 | Canada | English (official) 58.8%, French (official) 21.6%, other 19.6% (2006 Census) |
| 39 | Cape Verde | Portuguese (official), Crioulo (a blend of Portuguese and West African words) |
| 40 | Cayman Islands | English (official) 95%, Spanish 3.2%, other 1.8% (1999 census) |
| 41 | Central African Republic | French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), tribal languages |
| 42 | Chad | French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), more than 120 different languages and dialects |
| 43 | Chile | Spanish (official), Mapudungun, German, English |
| 44 | China | Standard Chinese or Mandarin (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) |
| 45 | Christmas Island | English (official), Chinese, Malay |
| 46 | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Malay (Cocos dialect), English |
| 47 | Colombia | Spanish (official) |
| 48 | Comoros | Arabic (official), French (official), Shikomoro (a blend of Swahili and Arabic) |
| 49 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba |
| 50 | Congo, Republic of the | French (official), Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread) |
| 51 | Cook Islands | English (official), Maori |
| 52 | Costa Rica | Spanish (official), English |
| 53 | Cote d’Ivoire | French (official), 60 native dialects of which Dioula is the most widely spoken |
| 54 | Croatia | Croatian (official) 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) 2.9% (2001 census) |
| 55 | Cuba | Spanish (official) |
| 56 | Curacao | Papiamentu (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect) 81.2%, Dutch (official) 8%, Spanish 4%, English 2.9%, other 3.9% (2001 census) |
| 57 | Cyprus | Greek (official), Turkish (official), English |
| 58 | Czech Republic | Czech 94.9%, Slovak 2%, other 2.3%, unidentified 0.8% (2001 census) |
| 59 | Denmark | Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) |
| 60 | Dhekelia | English, Greek |
| 61 | Djibouti | French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar |
| 62 | Dominica | English (official), French patois |
| 63 | Dominican Republic | Spanish (official) |
| 64 | Ecuador | Spanish (official), Amerindian languages (especially Quechua) |
| 65 | Egypt | Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes |
| 66 | El Salvador | Spanish (official), Nahua (among some Amerindians) |
| 67 | Equatorial Guinea | Spanish (official) 67.6%, other (includes French (official), Fang, Bubi) 32.4% (1994 census) |
| 68 | Eritrea | Tigrinya (official), Arabic (official), English (official), Tigre, Kunama, Afar, other Cushitic languages |
| 69 | Estonia | Estonian (official) 67.3%, Russian 29.7%, other 2.3%, unknown 0.7% (2000 census) |
| 70 | Ethiopia | Amarigna (Amharic) (official) 32.7%, Oromigna (official regional) 31.6%, Tigrigna (official regional) 6.1%, Somaligna 6%, Guaragigna 3.5%, Sidamigna 3.5%, Hadiyigna 1.7%, other 14.8%, English (official) (major foreign language taught in schools), Arabic (official) (1994 census) |
| 71 | European Union | Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish |
| 72 | Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | English |
| 73 | Faroe Islands | Faroese (derived from Old Norse), Danish |
| 74 | Fiji | English (official), Fijian (official), Hindustani |
| 75 | Finland | Finnish (official) 91.2%, Swedish (official) 5.5%, other (small Sami- and Russian-speaking minorities) 3.3% (2007) |
| 76 | France | French (official) 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish) |
| 77 | French Polynesia | French (official) 61.1%, Polynesian (official) 31.4%, Asian languages 1.2%, other 0.3%, unspecified 6% (2002 census) |
| 78 | Gabon | French (official), Fang, Myene, Nzebi, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi |
| 79 | Gambia, The | English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars |
| 80 | Gaza Strip | Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by many Palestinians), English (widely understood) |
| 81 | Georgia | Georgian (official) 71%, Russian 9%, Armenian 7%, Azeri 6%, other 7% |
| 82 | Germany | German |
| 83 | Ghana | Asante 14.8%, Ewe 12.7%, Fante 9.9%, Boron (Brong) 4.6%, Dagomba 4.3%, Dangme 4.3%, Dagarte (Dagaba) 3.7%, Akyem 3.4%, Ga 3.4%, Akuapem 2.9%, other (includes English (official)) 36.1% (2000 census) |
| 84 | Gibraltar | English (used in schools and for official purposes), Spanish, Italian, Portuguese |
| 85 | Greece | Greek (official) 99%, other (includes English and French) 1% |
| 86 | Greenland | Greenlandic (East Inuit) (official), Danish (official), English |
| 87 | Grenada | English (official), French patois |
| 88 | Guam | English 38.3%, Chamorro 22.2%, Philippine languages 22.2%, other Pacific island languages 6.8%, Asian languages 7%, other languages 3.5% (2000 census) |
| 89 | Guatemala | Spanish (official) 60%, Amerindian languages 40% |
| 90 | Guernsey | English, French, Norman-French dialect spoken in country districts |
| 91 | Guinea | French (official) |
| 92 | Guinea-Bissau | Portuguese (official), Crioulo, African languages |
| 93 | Guyana | English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), Urdu |
| 94 | Haiti | French (official), Creole (official) |
| 95 | Holy See (Vatican City) | Italian, Latin, French, various other languages |
| 96 | Honduras | Spanish (official), Amerindian dialects |
| 97 | Hong Kong | Cantonese (official) 90.8%, English (official) 2.8%, Putonghua (Mandarin) 0.9%, other Chinese dialects 4.4%, other 1.1% (2006 census) |
| 98 | Hungary | Hungarian 93.6%, other or unspecified 6.4% (2001 census) |
| 99 | Iceland | Icelandic, English, Nordic languages, German widely spoken |
| 100 | India | Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9% |
| 101 | Indonesia | Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay), English, Dutch, local dialects (of which the most widely spoken is Javanese) |
| 102 | Iran | Persian and Persian dialects (official) 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2% |
| 103 | Iraq | Arabic (official), Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Turkoman (a Turkish dialect), Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic), Armenian |
| 104 | Ireland | English (official,the language generally used), Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) official, spoken mainly in areas along the western coast |
| 105 | Isle of Man | English, Manx Gaelic (about 2% of the population has some knowledge) |
| 106 | Israel | Hebrew (official), Arabic (used officially for Arab minority), English (most commonly used foreign language) |
| 107 | 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) |
| 108 | Jamaica | English, English patois |
| 109 | Japan | Japanese |
| 110 | Jersey | English 94.5% (official), Portuguese 4.6%, other 0.9% (2001 census) |
| 111 | Jordan | Arabic (official), English (widely understood among upper and middle classes) |
| 112 | Kazakhstan | Kazakh (Qazaq, state language) 64.4%, Russian (official, used in everyday business, designated the “language of interethnic communication”) 95% (2001 est.) |
| 113 | Kenya | English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages |
| 114 | Kiribati | I-Kiribati, English (official) |
| 115 | Korea, North | Korean |
| 116 | Korea, South | Korean, English (widely taught in junior high and high school) |
| 117 | Kosovo | Albanian (official), Serbian (official), Bosnian, Turkish, Roma |
| 118 | Kuwait | Arabic (official), English widely spoken |
| 119 | Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyz (official) 64.7%, Uzbek 13.6%, Russian (official) 12.5%, Dungun 1%, other 8.2% (1999 census) |
| 120 | Laos | Lao (official), French, English, various ethnic languages |
| 121 | Latvia | Latvian (official) 58.2%, Russian 37.5%, Lithuanian and other 4.3% (2000 census) |
| 122 | Lebanon | Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian |
| 123 | Lesotho | Sesotho (official) (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa |
| 124 | Liberia | English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages few of which can be written or used in correspondence |
| 125 | Libya | Arabic (official), Italian, English |
| 126 | Liechtenstein | German (official), Alemannic dialect |
| 127 | Lithuania | Lithuanian (official) 82%, Russian 8%, Polish 5.6%, other and unspecified 4.4% (2001 census) |
| 128 | Luxembourg | Luxembourgish (national language), German (administrative language), French (administrative language) |
| 129 | Macau | Cantonese 85.7%, Hokkien 4%, Mandarin 3.2%, other Chinese dialects 2.7%, English 1.5%, Tagalog 1.3%, other 1.6% |
| 130 | Macedonia | Macedonian (official) 66.5%, Albanian (official) 25.1%, Turkish 3.5%, Roma 1.9%, Serbian 1.2%, other 1.8% (2002 census) |
| 131 | Madagascar | French (official), Malagasy (official), English |
| 132 | Malawi | Chichewa (official) 57.2%, Chinyanja 12.8%, Chiyao 10.1%, Chitumbuka 9.5%, Chisena 2.7%, Chilomwe 2.4%, Chitonga 1.7%, other 3.6% (1998 census) |
| 133 | Malaysia | Bahasa Malaysia (official), English, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai |
| 134 | Maldives | Dhivehi (official, dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic), English (spoken by most government officials) |
| 135 | Mali | French (official), Bambara 80%, numerous African languages |
| 136 | Malta | Maltese (official) 90.2%, English (official) 6%, multilingual 3%, other 0.8% (2005 census) |
| 137 | Marshall Islands | Marshallese (official) 98.2%, other languages 1.8% (1999 census) |
| 138 | Mauritania | Arabic (official and national), Pulaar, Soninke, Wolof (all national languages), French, Hassaniya |
| 139 | Mauritius | Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3% (2000 census) |
| 140 | Mexico | Spanish only 92.7%, Spanish and indigenous languages 5.7%, indigenous only 0.8%, unspecified 0.8% |
| 141 | Micronesia, Federated States of | English (official and common language), Chuukese, Kosrean, Pohnpeian, Yapese, Ulithian, Woleaian, Nukuoro, Kapingamarangi |
| 142 | Moldova | Moldovan (official, virtually the same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect) |
| 143 | Monaco | French (official), English, Italian, Monegasque |
| 144 | Mongolia | Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian (1999) |
| 145 | Montenegro | Serbian 63.6%, Montenegrin (official) 22%, Bosnian 5.5%, Albanian 5.3%, unspecified 3.7% (2003 census) |
| 146 | Montserrat | English |
| 147 | Morocco | Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French (often the language of business, government, and diplomacy) |
| 148 | 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 4% (2007 census) |
| 149 | Namibia | English (official) 7%, Afrikaans (common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population), German 32%, indigenous languages (includes Oshivambo, Herero, Nama) 1% |
| 150 | Nauru | Nauruan (official, a distinct Pacific Island language), English (widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes) |
| 151 | Nepal | Nepali (official) 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% (2001 census) |
| 152 | Netherlands | Dutch (official), Frisian (official) |
| 153 | New Caledonia | French (official), 33 Melanesian-Polynesian dialects |
| 154 | New Zealand | English (official) 91.2%, Maori (official) 3.9%, Samoan 2.1%, French 1.3%, Hindi 1.1%, Yue 1.1%, Northern Chinese 1%, other 12.9%, New Zealand Sign Language (official) |
| 155 | Nicaragua | Spanish (official) 97.5%, Miskito 1.7%, other 0.8% (1995 census) |
| 156 | Niger | French (official), Hausa, Djerma |
| 157 | Nigeria | English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani, over 500 additional indigenous languages |
| 158 | Niue | English (official), Niuean (a Polynesian language closely related to Tongan and Samoan) |
| 159 | Norfolk Island | English (official), Norfolk (a mixture of 18th century English and ancient Tahitian) |
| 160 | Northern Mariana Islands | Philippine languages 24.4%, Chinese 23.4%, Chamorro 22.4%, English 10.8%, other Pacific island languages 9.5%, other 9.6% (2000 census) |
| 161 | Norway | Bokmal Norwegian (official), Nynorsk Norwegian (official), small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities |
| 162 | Oman | Arabic (official), English, Baluchi, Urdu, Indian dialects |
| 163 | Pakistan | Punjabi 48%, Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%, 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% |
| 164 | Palau | Palauan (official on most islands) 64.7%, Filipino 13.5%, English 9.4%, Chinese 5.7%, Carolinian 1.5%, Japanese 1.5%, other Asian 2.3%, other languages 1.5% (2000 census) |
| 165 | Panama | Spanish (official), English 14% |
| 166 | Papua New Guinea | Tok Pisin (official), English (official), Hiri Motu (official), some 860 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth of the world’s total) |
| 167 | Paraguay | Spanish (official), Guarani (official) |
| 168 | Peru | Spanish (official) 84.1%, Quechua (official) 13%, Aymara 1.7%, Ashaninka 0.3%, other native languages (includes a large number of minor Amazonian languages) 0.7%, other 0.2% (2007 Census) |
| 169 | Philippines | Filipino (official; based on Tagalog) and English (official); eight major dialects – Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinan |
| 170 | Pitcairn Islands | English (official), Pitkern (mixture of an 18th century English dialect and a Tahitian dialect) |
| 171 | Poland | Polish (official) 97.8%, other and unspecified 2.2% (2002 census) |
| 172 | Portugal | Portuguese (official), Mirandese (official, but locally used) |
| 173 | Puerto Rico | Spanish, English |
| 174 | Qatar | Arabic (official), English commonly used as a second language |
| 175 | Romania | Romanian (official) 91%, Hungarian 6.7%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.1%, other 1.2% |
| 176 | Russia | Russian (official), many minority languages |
| 177 | Rwanda | Kinyarwanda (official, universal Bantu vernacular), French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili, used in commercial centers) |
| 178 | Saint Barthelemy | French (primary), English |
| 179 | Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha | English |
| 180 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | English (official) |
| 181 | Saint Lucia | English (official), French patois |
| 182 | Saint Martin | French (official), English, Dutch, French Patois, Spanish, Papiamento (dialect of Netherlands Antilles) |
| 183 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | French (official) |
| 184 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | English, French patois |
| 185 | Samoa | Samoan (Polynesian) (official), English |
| 186 | San Marino | Italian |
| 187 | Sao Tome and Principe | Portuguese (official) |
| 188 | Saudi Arabia | Arabic (official) |
| 189 | Senegal | French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka |
| 190 | Serbia | Serbian (official) 88.3%, Hungarian 3.8%, Bosniak 1.8%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.1%, other 4.1%, unknown 0.9% (2002 census) |
| 191 | Seychelles | Creole 91.8%, English (official) 4.9%, other 3.1%, unspecified 0.2% (2002 census) |
| 192 | Sierra Leone | 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%) |
| 193 | Singapore | Mandarin (official) 35%, English (official) 23%, Malay (official) 14.1%, Hokkien 11.4%, Cantonese 5.7%, Teochew 4.9%, Tamil (official) 3.2%, other Chinese dialects 1.8%, other 0.9% (2000 census) |
| 194 | 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%, other 3.5% (2001 census) |
| 195 | Slovakia | Slovak (official) 83.9%, Hungarian 10.7%, Roma 1.8%, Ukrainian 1%, other or unspecified 2.6% (2001 census) |
| 196 | Slovenia | 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) |
| 197 | Solomon Islands | Melanesian pidgin (in much of the country is lingua franca), English (official but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population), 120 indigenous languages |
| 198 | Somalia | Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English |
| 199 | South Africa | IsiZulu (official) 23.8%, IsiXhosa (official) 17.6%, Afrikaans (official) 13.3%, Sepedi (offcial) 9.4%, English (official) 8.2%, Setswana (official) 8.2%, Sesotho (official) 7.9%, Xitsonga (official) 4.4%, other 7.2%, isiNdebele (official), Tshivenda (official), siSwati (official) (2001 census) |
| 200 | South Sudan | English (official), Arabic (includes Juba and Sudanese variants) (official), regional languages include Dinka, Nuer, Bari, Zande, Shilluk |
| 201 | Spain | Castilian Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, and Basque 2% (official regionally) |
| 202 | Sri Lanka | Sinhala (official and national language) 74%, Tamil (national language) 18%, other 8% |
| 203 | Sudan | Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, Fur |
| 204 | Suriname | Dutch (official), English (widely spoken), Sranang Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population and is lingua franca among others), Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), Javanese |
| 205 | Svalbard | Norwegian, Russian |
| 206 | Swaziland | English (official, used for government business), siSwati (official) |
| 207 | Sweden | Swedish (official), small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities |
| 208 | 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%, Romansch (official) 0.5%, other 2.8% (2000 census) |
| 209 | Syria | Arabic (official), Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian (widely understood); French, English (somewhat understood) |
| 210 | Taiwan | Mandarin Chinese (official), Taiwanese (Min), Hakka dialects |
| 211 | Tajikistan | Tajik (official), Russian widely used in government and business |
| 212 | Tanzania | 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 |
| 213 | Thailand | Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects |
| 214 | Timor-Leste | Tetum (official), Portuguese (official), Indonesian, English |
| 215 | Togo | 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) |
| 216 | Tokelau | Tokelauan (a Polynesian language), English |
| 217 | Tonga | Tongan (official), English (official) |
| 218 | Trinidad and Tobago | English (official), Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), French, Spanish, Chinese |
| 219 | Tunisia | Arabic (official, one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce) |
| 220 | Turkey | Turkish (official), Kurdish, other minority languages |
| 221 | Turkmenistan | Turkmen (official) 72%, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, other 7% |
| 222 | Turks and Caicos Islands | English (official) |
| 223 | Tuvalu | Tuvaluan (official), English (official), Samoan, Kiribati (on the island of Nui) |
| 224 | Uganda | 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 |
| 225 | Ukraine | Ukrainian (official) 67%, Russian 24%, other (includes small Romanian-, Polish-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities) 9% |
| 226 | United Arab Emirates | Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu |
| 227 | United Kingdom | English |
| 228 | United States | English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census) |
| 229 | Uruguay | Spanish (official), Portunol, Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier) |
| 230 | Uzbekistan | Uzbek (official) 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1% |
| 231 | Vanuatu | local languages (more than 100) 72.6%, pidgin (known as Bislama or Bichelama) 23.1%, English (official) 1.9%, French (official) 1.4%, other 0.3%, unspecified 0.7% (1999 Census) |
| 232 | Venezuela | Spanish (official), numerous indigenous dialects |
| 233 | Vietnam | Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer, mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
| 234 | Virgin Islands | English 74.7%, Spanish or Spanish Creole 16.8%, French or French Creole 6.6%, other 1.9% (2000 census) |
| 235 | Wallis and Futuna | Wallisian (indigenous Polynesian language) 58.9%, Futunian 30.1%, French (official) 10.8%, other 0.2% (2003 census) |
| 236 | West Bank | Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers and many Palestinians), English (widely understood) |
| 237 | Western Sahara | Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic |
| 238 | World | Mandarin Chinese 12.44%, Spanish 4.85%, English 4.83%, Arabic 3.25%, Hindi 2.68%, Bengali 2.66%, Portuguese 2.62%, Russian 2.12%, Japanese 1.8%, Standard German 1.33%, Javanese 1.25% (2009 est.) |
| 239 | Yemen | Arabic (official) |
| 240 | Zambia | Bemba (official) 30.1%, Nyanja (official) 10.7%, Tonga (official) 10.6%, Lozi (official) 5.7%, Chewa 4.9%, Nsenga 3.4%, Tumbuka 2.5%, Lunda (official) 2.2%, Kaonde (official) 2%, Lala 2%, Luvale (official) 1.7%, English (official) 1.7%, other 22.5% (2000 Census) |
| 241 | Zimbabwe | English (official), Shona, Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele, sometimes called Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects |