CONTENT LANGUAGE & COUNTRY LIST Languages by countries World map (source: United States. United Nations. [ online] no dated. [cited July 2007] Available from: www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm) Multicultural Clinical Support Resource Language & country list Country Languages (official/national languages in bold) Country Languages (official/national languages in bold) Afghanistan Dari, Pashto, Parsi-Dari, Tatar, Farsi, Hazaragi Brunei Malay, English, Chinese, other minority languages Albania Tosk, Albanian Bulgaria Bulgarian, Turkish, Roma and other minority languages Algeria Arabic, French, Berber dialects Burkina Faso French, native African (Sudanic) languages 90% Andorra Catalán, French, Spanish, Portuguese Burundi Kirundi, French, Swahili, Rwanda Angola Portuguese, Koongo, Mbundu, Chokwe, Mbunda, Cambodia Khmer, French, English Antigua and English, local dialects, Arabic, Portuguese Cameroon French, English, 24 African language groups Barbuda Canada English, French, other minority languages Argentina Spanish, English, Italian, German, French Cape Verde Portuguese, Kabuverdianu, Criuolo Armenia Armenian, Yezidi, Russian Central French (official), Sangho (lingua franca, national), other minority Australia English, Indigenous and other minority languages African languages Austria German, Slovenian, Croatian, Hungarian, Republic Alemannisch, Bavarian, Sinte Romani, Walser Chad French, Arabic, Sara, more than 120 languages and dialects Azerbaijan Azerbaijani (Azeri), Russian, Armenian, other and minority languages Chile Spanish, Aymaran, Araucanian, Alacalufan, Quechuan, Rapa Nui, Bahamas English, Creole (among Haitian immigrants) China Standard Chinese (Mandarin/ Putonghua), Yue (Cantonese), Wu Bahrain Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, other minority languages Bangladesh Bengali, English, other minority languages inc. Hindi, Urdu Colombia Spanish, Catalan, Yagua, Yuhup Barbados English, Bajan Comoros Arabic, French, Shikomoro, other minority languages Belarus Belarusan, Russian, Baltic Romani, Eastern Yiddish, Lithuanian, Polish, Tatar, Ukrainian Congo French, Lingala, Kingwana, Kikongo, Tshiluba, Luba-Kasai, Congo Swahili Democratic other languages Belgium Dutch (Flemish), French, German, Limburgisch, Picard, Vlaams, Walloon Republic of Belize English, Spanish, Mayan, Garifuna (Carib), Creole Congo, French, Lingala, Monokutuba, Kikongo, many local languages and dialects Benin French, Fon, Yoruba, other minority languages Republic of Bhutan Dzongkha, Tibetan dialects, Nepalese,other minority languages Costa Rica Spanish, English, other languages Bolivia Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, Corsican, German, Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz Côte d'Ivoire French, Dioula and other languages Bosnia and Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Italian, Macedo Romanian, Albanian Croatia Croatian, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, German, Istriot, Romanian Herzegovina Cuba Spanish, Catalan, Corsican Botswana English, Setswana, Kalanga, Sekgalagadi, other minority languages Cyprus Greek, Turkish, English, Armenian Brazil Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, other minority languages Czech Czech, Bavarian, German, Polish, Romani, Silesian Multicultural Clinical Support Resource Language & country list Country Languages (official/national languages in bold) Country Languages (official/national languages in bold) Republic Guinea- Portuguese, Criolo, minority Denmark Danish, German, Faroese, Greenlandic (Inuit dialect), English Bissau Djibouti French, Arabic, Somali, Afar Guyana English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Hindi, Urdu, Portuguese, Saint Lucian Creole French, Chinese Dominica English, French patois Haiti Creole and French Dominican Spanish, English, Haitian Creole French Republic Honduras Spanish, Amerindian dialects, other minority languages East Timor Tetun, Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia, English; other indigenous Hungary Magyar (Hungarian), Armenian, Bulgarian, Eastern Yiddish, French, languages, including Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak Greek, Macedonian, Polish, Ukrainian, Western Yiddish Ecuador Spanish, Quechua, Cofan, other Indigenous languages Iceland Icelandic, English, Nordic languages, German, Danish Egypt Arabic, English,French and other minority languages India Hindi, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Kannada, Assamese, Sanskrit, Sindhi (all El Salvador Spanish, Nahua, other minority languages include Kekchí, Lenca, Pipil official); many other languages; 1,600+ dialects Equatorial Spanish, French, pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo, Batanga, Seki Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia, English, Dutch, Javanese, Portuguese, Tringgus, Guinea Uyghur, Western Cham, Arabic and 580 plus other languages and dialects Eritrea English, Arabic, Tigrinya, other minority languages Iran Farsi (Persian) dialects, Turkic dialects, Kurdish, Luri, Balochi, Arabic, Estonia Estonian, Russian, Armenian, Baltic Romani, Belarusan, Armenian, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Krudi/Sorani Ethiopia Amharic, English, Tigrinya, many minority languages Iraq Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian, Armenian, Fiji English, Fijian, Hindustani, other minority languages Syriac, Turkish, Turkmen, Turoyo, Kurdi/Sorani Finland Finnish, Swedish, Small Sami- (Lapp), other languages include English Ireland English, Irish (Gaelic), Shelta, Scots France French, rapidly declining regional dialects other minority languages Israel Hebrew, Standard Arabic, English, other minority languages Gabon French, Fang, Myene, Nzebi, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi, Punu, Italy Italian, other minority languages Gambia English, Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous languages Jamaica English, Jamaican Creole, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese Georgia Georgian, Russian, other minority languages Japan Japanese, English, Chinese Germany Germany, other minority languages Jordan Arabic, English, Greek, Kurdish, Azerbaijani Ghana English, minority languages Kazakhstan Kazak (Qazaq, state language); Russian (official, used in everyday Greece Greek, minority languages business), many minor and regional languages Grenada English, French patois Kenya English, Swahili (national), Arabic, Hindi, Borana, Garreh-Ajuran, Konkani, Maasai, Panjabi, Somali and numerous indigenous languages Guatemala Spanish, 23 officially recognized Amerindian languages Kiribati English, I-Kiribati (Gilbertese) Guinea French other minority languages Multicultural Clinical Support Resource Language & country list Country Languages (official/national languages in bold) Country Languages (official/national languages in bold) Korea, North Korean, Chinese Micronesia Chuukese, Kosraean, Pohnpeian, Yapese, English, Ulithian, Woleaian, Korea, South Korean, English, Sherpa, Chinese Nukuoro, Kapingamarangi Kuwait Arabic, English, Kurdish, Balochi, Mehri Moldova Romanian (Moldovan), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect), Belarusan, other minority languages Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz, Russian, many minor and regional languages Monaco French, English, Italian, Monégasque Laos Lao, French, English, Khmer, Chinese, Sedang Mongolia Halh Mongolian, Turkic, Russian, Japanese, Korean Latvia Latvian, Russian, Lithuanian, Belarusan, Estonian, Polish, Tatar, Ukrainian Montenegro Serbian/Montenegrin (Ijekavian dialect), Hungarian, Gheg Albanian, Lebanon Arabic, French, English, Armenian, Kurdish, Chaldean, Turoyo Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, Ukrainian Lesotho English, Sesotho, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Phuthi Morocco Arabic, Berber dialects, French Liberia English (Liberian), Bandi, Bassa, Grebo, Krahn, Kpelle and some 20 Mozambique Portuguese, Emakhuwa, Xichangana, Elomwe, Cisena , Echuwabo, ethnic-group languages Chinese and other Mozambican languages Libya Arabic, Italian, English widely understood in major cities Myanmar Burmese, Eastern Tamang, Geman Deng, Iu Mien, Malay, Sylheti, Liechtenstein German, Alemannisch, Walser, Italian Chinese and other minority languages Lithuania Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Belarusan, Yiddish, Latvian, Tatar, Ukrainian Namibia English, Afrikaans, German, Portuguese; indigenous languages: Luxembourg French, German, Luxembourgeois, Kabuverdianu, Portuguese, Italian Oshivambo, Herero, Nama and other regional languages Macedonia Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Roma, Serbian Nauru Nauruan, English, Fijian, Kiribati, Kosraean, Marshallese, Tuvaluan Madagascar Malagasy, French, Morisyen, Arabic, Chinese Nepal Nepali, Maithali, Bhojpuri, Tharu, Tamang, Kharia, Urdu, English Malawi Nyanja (Chewa), Tumbuka, English, other minority languages Netherlands Dutch, other minority languages Malaysia Bahasa Melayu (Malay), English, Chinese dialects,Tamil, Telugu, New Zealand English, Maori, other minority languages Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai, several indigenous languages Nicaragua Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, English and indigenous languages Maldives Maldivian Dhivehi, Sinhala, Arabic, English Niger French, Djerma, Arabic, other minority languages Mali French, many regional and minority languages Nigeria Edo, Efik, Adamawa Fulfulde, Hausa, Idoma, Igbo, Central Kanuri, Malta Maltese, English, Arabic Yoruba, English, Ibo, Fulani, and more than 200 others Marshall Marshallese, English Norway Bokmål Norwegian, Nynorsk Norwegian, (Sami is official in six Islands municipalities), other minority languages Mauritania Hassaniya, other minority languages Oman Arabic, English, Baluchi, Indian languages, Portuguese, Somali, Swahili Mauritius English, French, Creole, Bojpoori, Punjabi, Gujarati, Chinese,