Chinese languages

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%

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.

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

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

Chris

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

Thanks for great information. i like it.

Lano

thank you !

What about Bangladesh and Bangali language?

What about it?