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Our list of languages spoken around the world can help you reach your target audience.Find out the official language of Senegal or what languages are spoken in Switzerland through our free list of languages which is listed by country. Using this country language list can help ensure that your documents are translated into the correct language(s) for your target market.
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COUNTRY |
LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN |
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Dari Persian, Pashtu (both official), other Turkic and minor languages |
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Albanian (Tosk is the official dialect), Greek |
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Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects |
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Catalán (official), French, Castilian, Portuguese |
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Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages |
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English (official), local dialects |
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Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French |
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Armenian, Yezidi, Russian |
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English, native and other languages |
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German (official nationwide); Slovene, Croatian, Hungarian (each official in one region) |
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Azerbaijani Turkic, Russian, Armenian |
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English (official), Creole (among Haitian immigrants) |
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Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu |
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Bangla (official), English |
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English |
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Belarusian, Russian, other |
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Dutch (Flemish), French, German (all official) |
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English (official), Spanish, Mayan, Garifuna (Carib), Creole |
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French (official), Fon, Yoruba, tribal languages |
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Dzongkha (official), Tibetan dialects (among Bhotes), Nepalese dialects (among Nepalese) |
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Spanish, Quechua, Aymara (all official) |
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Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian |
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English (official), Setswana, Kalanga, Sekgalagadi |
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Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French |
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Malay (official), English, Chinese |
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Bulgarian, Turkish, Roma |
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French (official); native African (Sudanic) languages |
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Kirundi and French (official), Swahili |
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Khmer (official), French, English |
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French, English (both official); 24 major African language groups |
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English, French (both official) |
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Portuguese, Criuolo |
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French (official), Sangho (lingua franca, national), tribal languages |
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French, Arabic (both official); Sara (in south), more than 120 different languages and dialects |
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Spanish |
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Standard Chinese (Mandarin/Putonghua), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages |
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Spanish |
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Arabic and French (both official), Shikomoro (Swahili/Arabic blend) |
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French (official), Lingala, Kingwana, Kikongo, Tshiluba |
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French (official), Lingala, Monokutuba, Kikongo, many local languages and dialects |
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Spanish (official), English |
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French (official) and African languages (Dioula esp.) |
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Croatian, Serbian, others (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) |
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Spanish |
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Greek, Turkish (both official); English |
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Czech, Slovak |
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Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (Inuit dialect), German; English is the predominant second language |
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French and Arabic (both official), Somali, Afar |
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English (official) and French patois |
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Spanish |
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Tetum, Portuguese (official); Bahasa Indonesia, English; other indigenous languages, including Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak |
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Spanish (official), Quechua, other Amerindian languages |
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Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes |
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Spanish, Nahua (among some Amerindians) |
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Spanish, French (both official); pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo |
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Afar, Arabic, Tigre and Kunama, Tigrinya, other Cushitic languages |
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Estonian (official), Russian |
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Amarigna, Oromigna, Tigrigna, Somaligna, Guaragigna, Sidamigna, Hadiyigna, English (major foreign language taught in schools) |
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English (official), Fijian, Hindustani |
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Finnish, Swedish (both official); small Sami- (Lapp) and Russian-speaking minorities |
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French, rapidly declining regional dialects (Provençal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish) |
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French (official), Fang, Myene, Nzebi, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi |
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English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous |
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Georgian (official), Russian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, others (Abkhaz is the official language in Abkhazia) |
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German |
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English (official), African languages (including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga) |
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Greek (official), others (includes English and French) |
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English (official), French patois |
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Spanish, Amerindian languages (23 officially recognized Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, and Xinca) |
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French (official), native tongues (Malinké, Susu, Fulani) |
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Portuguese (official), Criolo, African languages |
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English (official), Amerindian dialects, Creole, Hindi, Urdu |
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Creole and French (both official) |
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Spanish, Amerindian dialects |
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Magyar (Hungarian) |
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Icelandic, English, Nordic languages, German widely spoken |
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Hindi, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Kannada, Assamese, Sanskrit, Sindhi (all official); Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language |
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Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay), English, Dutch, local dialects (the most widely spoken of which is Javanese) |
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Persian and Persian dialects, Turkic and Turkic dialects, Kurdish, Luri, Balochi, Arabic, Turkish |
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Arabic (official), Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian, Armenian |
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English, Irish (Gaelic) (both official) |
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Hebrew (official), Arabic, English |
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Italian (official); German-, French-, and Slovene-speaking minorities |
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English, Jamaican Creole |
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Japanese |
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Arabic (official), English |
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Kazak (Qazaq, state language), Russian (official, used in everyday business) |
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English (official), Swahili (national), and numerous indigenous languages |
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English (official), I-Kiribati (Gilbertese) |
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Korean |
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Korean, English widely taught |
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Arabic (official), English |
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Kyrgyz, Russian (both official) |
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Lao (official), French, English, various ethnic languages |
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Latvian (official), Russian, Lithuanian |
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Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian |
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English, Sesotho (both official); Zulu, Xhosa |
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English (official), some 20 ethnic-group languages |
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Arabic, Italian, and English, all are widely understood in the major cities |
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German (official), Alemannic dialect |
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Lithuanian (official), Russian, Polish |
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Luxembourgish (national language), German (administrative language), French (administrative language) |
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Macedonian, Albanian (both official); Turkish, Roma, Serbian |
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Malagasy and French (both official) |
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Chichewa (official), Chinyanja, Chiyao%, Chitumbuka, Chisena, Chilomwe, Chitonga |
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Bahasa Melayu (Malay, official), English, Chinese dialects (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai; several indigenous languages (including Iban, Kadazan) in East Malaysia |
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Maldivian Dhivehi (official); English spoken by most government officials |
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French (official), Bambara 80%, numerous African languages |
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Maltese and English (both official) |
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Marshalles (two major dialects from the Malayo-Polynesian family), English widely spoken as a second language (both official); Japanese |
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Hassaniya Arabic (official), Pulaar, Soninke, French, Wolof |
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Creole, Bhojpuri, French, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population) |
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Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional indigenous languages |
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English (official and common language), Trukese, Pohnpeian, Yapese, Kosrean, Ulithian, Woleaian, Nukuoro, Kapingamarangi |
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Moldovan (official; virtually the same as Romanian), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect) |
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French (official), English, Italian, Monégasque |
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Khalkha Mongol, Turkic, Russian |
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Serbian/Montenegrin (Ijekavian dialect—official) |
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Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French often used for business, government, and diplomacy |
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Emakhuwa, Xichangana, Portuguese (official; spoken by 27% of population as a second language), Elomwe, Cisena, Echuwabo, other Mozambican languages |
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Burmese, minority languages |
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English (official), Afrikaans is common language of most of the population and of about 60% of the white population, German; indigenous languages (includes Oshivambo, Herero, Nama) |
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Nauruan (official), English |
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Nepali (official), Maithali, Bhojpuri, Tharu, Tamang, others. English spoken by many in government and business |
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Dutch, Frisian (both official) |
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English, Maori (both official) |
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Spanish (official); English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast |
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French (official), Hausa, Djerma |
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English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani |
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Bokmål Norwegian, Nynorsk Norwegian (both official); small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities (Sami is official in six municipalities) |
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Arabic (official), English, Baluchi, Urdu, Indian dialects |
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Urdu, English (both official); Punjabi, Sindhi, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant), Pashtu, Balochi, Hindko, Brahui, Burushaski |
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Palauan, English, Sonsoralese, Tobi, Angaur (each official on some islands), Filipino, Chinese, Carolinian, Japanese, other Asian 2.3%, other languages |
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Spanish (official), English 14%, many bilingual |
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Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2%, Motu spoken in Papua region |
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Spanish, Guaraní (both official) |
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Spanish, Quéchua (both official); Aymara; many minor Amazonian languages |
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Filipino (based on Tagalog), English (both official); eight major dialects: Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinense |
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Polish |
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Portuguese (official), Mirandese (official, but locally used) |
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Arabic (official); English a common second language |
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Romanian (official), Hungarian, German |
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Russian, many minority languages |
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Kinyarwanda, French, and English (all official); Kiswahili in commercial centers |
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English |
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English (official), French patois |
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English, French patois |
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Samoan, English |
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Italian |
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Portuguese (official) |
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Arabic |
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French (official); Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka |
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Serbian (official), Hungarian, Bosniak, Romany (Gypsy) |
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Creole, English (official) |
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English (official), Mende (southern vernacular), Temne (northern vernacular), Krio (lingua franca) |
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Mandarin, English, Malay, Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew, Tamil, other Chinese dialects |
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Slovak (official), Hungarian, Roma, Ukrainian |
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Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian |
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English (official), Melanesian pidgin (lingua franca), 120 indigenous languages |
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Somali (official), Arabic, English, Italian |
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IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, English, Setswana, Sesotho, Xitsonga |
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Castilian Spanish (official); Catalan, Galician, Basque (official regionally) |
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Sinhala (official and national), Tamil (national); English is commonly used in government and spoken competently by about 10% |
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Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English |
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Dutch (official), Surinamese (lingua franca), English widely spoken, Hindustani, Javanese |
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English, siSwati (both official) |
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Swedish, small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities |
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German, French, Italian (all official); Romansch (national) |
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Arabic (official); Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian widely understood; French, English somewhat understood |
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Chinese (Mandarin, official), Taiwanese (Min), Hakka dialects |
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Tajik (official), Russian widely used in government and business |
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Swahili, English (both official); Arabic; many local languages |
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Thai (Siamese), English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects |
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French (official, commerce); Ewé, Mina (south); Kabyé, Dagomba (north); and many dialects |
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Tongan (an Austronesian language), English |
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English (official), Hindi, French, Spanish, Chinese |
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Arabic (official, commerce), French (commerce) |
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Turkish (official), Kurdish, Dimli, Azeri, Kabardian |
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Turkmen, Russian; Uzbek |
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Tuvaluan, English, Samoan, Kiribati (on the island of Nui) |
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English (official), Ganda or Luganda, other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic |
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Ukrainian, Russian; Romanian-, Polish-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities |
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Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu |
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English, Welsh, Scottish form of Gaelic |
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English, Spanish |
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Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier) |
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Uzbek, Russian, Tajik |
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Bislama (a Melanesian pidgin English), English, French (all 3 official); more than 100 local languages |
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Spanish (official), numerous indigenous dialects |
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Vietnamese (official); English (increasingly favored as a second language); some French, Chinese, Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
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Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic |
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Arabic |
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English (official); major vernaculars: Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga; about 70 other indigenous languages |
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English (official), Shona, Ndebele (Sindebele), numerous minor tribal dialects |
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