Countries and languages

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Below, we provide a list of the countries of the world and their majority languages – not including the many dialects and minority languages – for you to use as a marketing tool.

European Union

AUSTRIA

  • German (Austrian)

BELGIUM

  • Dutch (Flemish), French (Walloon) and German

BULGARIA

  • Bulgarian

CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Czech and Slovak

CYPRUS

  • Greek and Turkish

DENMARK

ESTONIA

  • Estonian, Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and Belarusian

FINLAND

  • Finnish, Swedish, Lappish and Russian

FRANCE

  • French, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Breton and Occitan

GERMANY

GREAT BRITAIN

GREECE

  • Greek, Turkish, Macedonian and Albanian

IRELAND

ITALY

  • Italian, German, Ladin, Istriot, Sardinian

LATVIA

  • Latvian, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian

LITHUANIA

  • Lithuanian, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Latvian and Polish

LUXEMBOURG

  • French, Luxembourgish and German

MALTA

NETHERLANDS

POLAND

PORTUGAL

ROMANIA

  • Romanian and Moldavian

SLOVAKIA

SLOVENIA

SPAIN

  • Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician

SWEDEN

HUNGARY

Europe

ALBANIA

  • Albanian and Greek

ANDORRA

  • Catalan, Spanish and French

ARMENIA

  • Armenian and Russian

AZERBAIJAN

  • Azerbaijani (Azeri), Russian and Armenian

BELARUS

  • Belarusian and Russian

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

  • Bosnian (a variant of Serbian-Croatian)

VATICAN CITY

  • Latin and Italian

CROATIA

  • Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Istriot

GEORGIA

  • Georgian, Russian, Armenian and Azerbaijani (Azeri)

ICELAND

LIECHTENSTEIN

  • German

MACEDONIA

  • Macedonian, Albanian, Serbian and Turkish

MOLDOVA

  • Moldavian, Russian and Gagauz

MONACO

  • French, Monegasque and Italian

MONTENEGRO

  • Montenegrin, Serbian, Croatian, Albanian and Bosnian

NORWAY

RUSSIA

  • Russian, Finno-Ugric, Altaic, Samoyedic, Caucasian, Paleo-Asian languages and others

SAN MARINO

  • Italian

SERBIA

  • Serbian

SWITZERLAND

  • Swiss German, French, Italian and Romansh

TURKEY

  • Turkish and Kurdish

UKRAINE

  • Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, Polish and Hungarian

Africa

ALGERIA

  • Arabic (Algerian), French and Berber

ANGOLA

  • Portuguese and Bantu languages

BENIN

  • French, Bariba, Fulani, Fon and Yoruba

BOTSWANA

BURKINA FASO

  • French, Mossi and Dyula

BURUNDI

  • French, Kirundi and Swahili

CAMEROON

  • French, English, Fulani, Fang, Bulu (and others)

CAPE VERDE

  • Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

  • French‎, Sango, Gbaya and others

CHAD

  • French, Arabic, Sara, Maba, Teda and Mbum

COMOROS

  • French, Arabic and Comorian

CONGO

  • French, Lingala, Kikongo and Kituba

CONGO (ZAIRE)

  • French, Kiswahili, Kiluba, Kikongo, Lingala and others

IVORY COAST

  • French, Dyula, Senufo and others

EGYPT

  • Arabic (Egyptian)

ERITREA

  • Ethiopian (Amharic or Amarinya), Arabic, Tigrinya, Afar, Italian and others

ETHIOPIA

  • Ethiopian (Amharic or Amarinya), Galla, Tigrinya, Sidama, Somali and others

GABON

  • French, Fang, Myene and Bantu languages

THE GAMBIA

  • English, Mandinka, Fula, Wolof and others

GHANA

  • English, Gur, Kwa, Twi, Fanti and others

DJIBOUTI

  • French, Arabic and Cushitic languages

GUINEA

  • French, Sussu, Malinke, Fulbe, Fulani and others

GUINEA-BISSAU

  • Portuguese, Creole-Portuguese and Sudanese languages

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

  • Spanish, Fang, Bube and Creole-English

KENYA

  • Swahili, Kikuyu, Luo, Kamba, English and others

LESOTHO

LIBERIA

LIBYA

  • Libyan Arabic, Berber and Italian

MADAGASCAR

  • Malagasy and French

MALAWI

MALI

  • French, Bambara, Fulfulde, Songhai, Soninke and Dogon

MOROCCO

  • Arabic (Moroccan), French and Berber dialects

MAURITANIA

  • Hassaniya Arabic, Wolof, Soninke, Fulani and French

MAURITIUS

  • French, Creole-French, English, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tamil and others

MOZAMBIQUE

  • Portuguese and Bantu languages

NAMIBIA

  • Ambo, Herero, Nama, English, Afrikaans, Bantu languages, Bushman (Bushmen) and Hottentot

NIGER

  • French, Hausa, Tamasheq, Zarma, Fulani and others

NIGERIA

  • English, Hausa, Ibo, Yoruba and others

RWANDA

  • French, Kinyarwanda and Swahili

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

  • Portuguese and Creole-Portuguese

SENEGAL

  • French, Wolof, Fulani, Dyola, Maninka and Serer

SEYCHELLES

  • Creole-French, French and English

SIERRA LEONE

  • English, Creole-English, Mende, Limba and Temne

SOMALIA

  • Somali, Arabic, English and Italian

SOUTH AFRICA

  • Afrikaans, English, Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, Zulu, Venda, Swazi, Ndebele, Pedi and Tsonga

SUDAN

  • Arabic, Hamitic, Nilotic and Sudanese languages

SWAZILAND

TANZANIA

  • Swahili, English, Sukuma, Nyamwezi and Bantu languages

TOGO

  • French, Ewe, Kabiye, Mina and Dagbani

TUNISIA

  • Tunisian Arabic, French and Berber

UGANDA

  • English, Swahili, Luganda, Nilotic, Chiga and others

ZAMBIA

  • English, Nyanja, Bemba, Tonga, Lunda, Lozi, Luvale and others

ZIMBABWE

  • English, Shona, Zimbabwean Ndebele and others

America

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

ARGENTINA

  • Spanish (Argentinian), Araucanian and Guarani

THE BAHAMAS

BARBADOS

BELIZE

  • English, Spanish, Creole-English and other minor languages

BOLIVIA

  • Spanish (Bolivian), Quechua, Aymara and Takana

BRAZIL

  • Portuguese(Brazilian), Tupi, Araucanian, Cariban, Guarani and other Native American languages

CANADA

  • English (Canadian), French (Canadian) and Amerindian languages

CHILE

  • Spanish (Chilean) and Araucanian

COLOMBIA

  • Spanish (Colombian), Araucanian and Cariban

COSTA RICA

  • Spanish (Costa Rican) and others

CUBA

  • Spanish (Cuban)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

  • Spanish (Dominican)

ECUADOR

  • Spanish, Quechua, Huaorani and others

EL SALVADOR

  • Spanish (Salvadoran)

JAMAICA

GRENADA

GUATEMALA

  • Spanish and Mayan languages

GUYANA

  • English, Hindi, Urdu, Creole-English, Araucanian and Cariban

HAITI

  • French and Haitian Creole

HONDURAS

  • Spanish and others

MEXICO

  • Spanish (Mexican) and Amerindian languages

NICARAGUA

  • Spanish and Miskito

PANAMA

  • Spanish, English, Guaymi and Kuna

PARAGUAY

  • Spanish and Guarani

PERU

  • Spanish, Quechua and Aymara

PUERTO RICO

SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS

SAINT LUCIA

SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

  • English, French and Creole-French

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SURINAME

  • Dutch, English, Creole-English, Hindi and Javanese

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

  • English, Creole-French, Spanish and Hindi

URUGUAY

  • Spanish

VENEZUELA

  • Spanish, Araucanian and Cariban

Asia

AFGHANISTAN

  • Dari and Pashto (known as Afghan), Farsi, Uzbek and Turkmen

SAUDI ARABIA

  • Arabic (Saudi)

BAHRAIN

  • Arabic

BANGLADESH

  • Bengali (Bangla)

BURMA

  • Burmese

BRUNEI

  • Malaysian (Malay), English and Chinese

BHUTAN

  • Nepalese (Nepali) and Bhutanese (Dzongkha)

CAMBODIA

  • Cambodian (Khmer), Chinese and Vietnamese

CHINA

  • Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Wu, Min-Bei, Min-Nan, Hakka, Xiang, Gan, Yue and others

NORTH KOREA

SOUTH KOREA

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

  • Arabic, Persian and Indian languages

PHILIPPINES

  • Filipino (Tagalog), Cebuano, Ilocano, English and others

JAPAN

JORDAN

  • Arabic (Jordanian)

INDIA

  • Hindi, English, Nepalese (Nepali), Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Bengali (Bangla), Assamese, Odia, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and others

INDONESIA

  • Indonesian, Malaysian (Malay), Madurese, Javanese, Sundanese and others

IRAN

  • Persian, Gilaki, Mazanderani, Farsi and others

IRAQ

  • Arabic, Kurdish and others

ISRAEL

KAZAKHSTAN

  • Kazakh, Russian, German, Ukrainian, Uzbek and others

KYRGYZSTAN

  • Kyrgyz and Russian

KUWAIT

  • Arabic

LAOS

  • Lao, French, Meo

LEBANON

  • Lebanese Arabic, French, Armenian and Assyrian

MALAYSIA

  • Malaysian (Malay), English, Chinese, Tamil and others

MALDIVES

MONGOLIA

  • Mongolian, Russian, Chinese and Kazakh

NEPAL

  • Nepalese (Nepali), Bihari, Newari, and others

OMAN

  • Arabic

PAKISTAN

  • Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto and others

QATAR

  • Arabic

SINGAPORE

  • English, Malaysian (Malay), Chinese and Tamil

SYRIA

  • Syrian Arabic and Kurdish

SRI LANKA

  • Sinhala/Sinhalese, Tamil and English

TAJIKISTAN

  • Tajik and Russian

TAIWAN

  • Chinese (Mandarin), Fukienese and Taiwanese

THAILAND

  • Thai, Chinese and others

TURKMENISTAN

  • Turkmen, Russian, Uzbek and others

UZBEKISTAN

  • Uzbek, Russian, Tajik and others

VIETNAM

  • Vietnamese, Chinese, Khmer and others

YEMEN

  • Arabic (Yemeni)

Oceania

AUSTRALIA

  • English (Australian) and Aboriginal languages

FIJI

KIRIBATI

  • Gilbertese and English

MARSHALL

MICRONESIA

NAURU

NEW ZEALAND

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