1% (official) Kirundi and French 8.4% Kirundi, French, and English 2.4%, other language combinations 2%, unspecified 56.9% (2008 est.)
Kirundi only 29.7% (official) French only. Malay (Bahasa Melayu) (official), English, Chinese dialectsīulgarian (official) 76.8%, Turkish 8.2%, Romani 3.8%, other 0.7%, unspecified 10.5% (2011 est.)įrench (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language) Sharchhopka 28%, Dzongkha (official) 24%, Lhotshamkha 22%, other 26% (includes foreign languages) (2005 est.) Russian (official) 70.2%, Belarusian (official) 23.4%, other 3.1% (includes small Polish- and Ukrainian-speaking minorities), unspecified 3.3% (2009 est.)ĭutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%Įnglish 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) (2010 est.)įrench (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north) German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene, official in southern Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 est.)Īzerbaijani (Azeri) (official) 92.5%, Russian 1.4%, Armenian 1.4%, other 4.7% (2009 est.)īangla 98.8% (official, also known as Bengali), other 1.2% (2011 est.)Įnglish (official), Bajan (English-based creole language, widely spoken in informal settings) Spanish (official), Italian, English, German, French, indigenous (Mapudungun, Quechua)Īrmenian (official) 97.9%, Kurdish (spoken by Yezidi minority) 1%, other 1% (2011 est.)Įnglish 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% (2016 est.) CountryĪfghan Persian or Dari (official) 77% (Dari functions as the lingua franca), Pashto (official) 48%, Uzbek 11%, English 6%, Turkmen 3%, Urdu 3%, Pashayi 1%, Nuristani 1%, Arabic 1%, Balochi 1% (2017 est.)Īlbanian 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.)Īrabic (official), French (lingua franca), Berber or Tamazight (official) dialects include Kabyle Berber (Taqbaylit), Shawiya Berber (Tacawit), Mzab Berber, Tuareg Berber (Tamahaq)Ĭatalan (official), French, Castilian, Portuguese
This covers all of the major recognized languages in each country. In selected countries, the percent of the population that speaks each language is also given. The table below lists the official language of each country, if there is one, as well as other languages spoken. The list presented here comes from the CIA World Factbook, a widely recognized source of data on countries around the globe. We also offer a bit more context there on different language families, and how we distinguish between languages. This also isn't comprehensive with bilingual speakers or speakers of endangered languages, or speakers of relatively new languages like Esperanto that aren't the main languages of any community.īe sure to check out our list of the most popular languages of the world to see which language has the most native speakers (hint: it's Mandarin Chinese) out of the world's population.
There are also many different writing systems, although we don't cover those here. Ethnologue, the biggest authority on languages on the web, estimates that there are over 7,000 spoken languages in the world.