Languages by country

[sharonscott]

Afghanistan=Dari Persian, Pashtu both official, other Turkic and minor languages

Australia=English 79%, native and other languages

Bahrain=Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu

Brazil=Portuguese official, Spanish, English, French

Cambodia=Khmer 95% official, French, English

China=Standard Chinese Mandarin/Putonghua, Yue Cantonese, Wu Shanghaiese, Minbei Fuzhou, Minnan Hokkien-Taiwanese, Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages

Cuba=Spanish

Cyprus=Greek, Turkish both official; English

Denmark=Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic Inuit dialect, German; English is the predominant second language

Finland=Finnish 92%, Swedish 6% both official; small Sami- Lapp and Russian-speaking minorities

France=French 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects Provençal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish

Germany=German

India=Hindi 30%, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Kannada, Assamese, Sanskrit, Sindhi all official; Hindi/Urdu; 1,600+ dialects

Italy=Italian official; German-, French-, and Slovene-speaking minoriti

Japan=Japanese

Malaysia=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

New Zealand=English, Maori both official

Pakistan=Urdu 8%, English both official; Punjabi 48%, Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%, Pashtu 8%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%, Burushaski, and others 8%

South Africa=IsiZulu 23.8%, IsiXhosa 17.6%, Afrikaans 13.3%, Sepedi 9.4%, English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.9%, Xitsonga 4.4%, other 7.2% (2001)

Spain= Castilian Spanish 74% official nationwide; Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2% each official regionally
Sri Lanka=Sinhala 74% official and national, Tamil 18% national, other 8%; English is commonly used in government and spoken competently by about 10%

[BellaVega]

What language is the most spoken in the world? I always thought it was Spanish with English coming in second. I never realized English was spoken in so many countries.

[candie111]

but i think english is the most widely used language in the world
in my country the foreign language that students must learn is english

[Chrisss]

English is the most popular language in the world...

Chris

[sarahrbx]

Now my country is regulated to educate children to use Chinese as the third language.

[japo12]

Thanks for great information. i like it.

Lano

[romliviu]

thank you !

[pronabsaha]

What about Bangladesh and Bangali language?

[quikseo]

What about it?