Languages

In many instances, effective communication requires the identification of the language spoken - and the dialect used. For example, the “Chinese” language embraces a number of dialects including Hakka, Hokkien and Fukkien, in addition to the mainstream languages of Cantonese and Mandarin. The following list offers you general information regarding major languages, dialects and other languages spoken in particular countries.

Countries and their Main Languages

| A - K | | L - Z | Country Languages Used Afghanistan Pushtu, Dari, Uzbeki, Tajik, Turkmani Albania Albanian, Greek Algeria Arabic, Berber dialects, French Argentina Spanish, Italian, German, Native American Indian languages Armenia Armenian, Arabic, Turkish, French, Russian, Azeri Austria German Azerbaijan Azerbaijani (Azeri), Russian, Armenian, Lezgin Bahrain Arabic Bangladesh Bengali, English, Urdu, Assamese Belarus (Byelorussia) Belarusian (Byelorussian), Russian, Ukrainian, Polish Bolivia Spanish, Quechua, Aymara Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian Botswana English, Setswana Brazil Portuguese, Spanish, German, Native American Indian languages Bulgaria Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Turkish, Romani, Greek Burma Burmese, Kachin, Karen, Chin, Naga, Arkanese Byelorussia See Belarus Cambodia (Kampuchea) Khmer, Mandarin, Teo Chiew, Vietnamese, French Central African Republic French, Sangho, Arabic, Hausa, Swahili Chad Arabic, French, African languages Chile Spanish, Native American Indian languages China Cantonese, Mandarin, Hakka, Hokkien, Fukkien, Teo Chiew, Tibetan, Mongolian and over 500 other languages Christmas Island Malay, English C.I.S.(Commonwealth of Independent States Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Moldavian, Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani (Azeri), Kazakh, Kyrgiz, Uzbeck, Turkmani, Tajik, Bashkirian, Buryat, Carelian, Chechenian, Ingu-shian, Chuvashian, Yakutian, Karbardinian, Balkarian, Kalmuk, Komi, Mari, Mordvinian, Ossetian, Tatar, Tuvinian, Udmurtian, Yiddish Cocos Islands Malay, English Colombia Spanish, Native American Indian languages Commonwealth of Independent States See C.I.S. Croatia Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Italian, Slovak Cuba Spanish Cyprus Greek, Turkish Czech Republic Czech, Slovak, German Denmark Danish Dominican Republic Spanish East Timor Tetum, Portuguese Ecuador Spanish, Quechua Egypt Arabic (Egyptian), Armenian El Salvador Spanish Eritrea Arabic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Afar Estonia Estonian, Russian Ethiopia Amharic, Tigre, Tigrinya, Oromo (Galla), Guraghe, Somali Fiji Fijian, Hindi, English Finland Finnish, Swedish Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Macedonian, Albanian, Bulgarian Former Yugoslavia Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Slovene, Slovak, Albanian, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian France French, Breton, Basque, Corsican French Guinea French Georgia Georgian, Russian, Armenian Germany German Greece Greek Greenland Inuit, Danish Hungary Hungarian, Slovak, German, Rumanian Iceland Icelandic India Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, Persian, English, Kasmiri, Malayam, Oriya, Teluga, Kannada, Assamese, Konkani, Manipari Indonesia Indonesian, Malay, Chinese dialects, Dutch, Javanese, Sudanese, Madurese, Achinese, Minangkabau, Batak, Dayak, Menadonese, Buginese, Macassarese, Sasak, Toraja, Balinese Iran Farsi, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Kurdish, Pushtu, Baluchi Iraq Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Kurdish, Pushtu, Chaidean Israel Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, Russian, Romanian Italy Italian, French, German Japan Japanese Jordan Arabic Kampuchea See Cambodia Kazakhstan Kazakh, Russian Korea Korean Kuwait Arabic Laos Laotian, Miao/Meo, Hmong, Teo Chiew, Mandarin Latvia Latvian, Russian Lebanon Arabic (Lebanese), Assyrian, Armenian Libya Arabic Liechtenstein German Lithuania Lithuanian, Russian, Polish Luxembourg Luxembourgish, French, German Macau Cantonese, Portuguese Macedonia See Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Malaysia Malaysian, Mandarin, Hokkien, Tamil Malta Maltese, English Mexico Spanish Monaco French, Italian Mongolia Mongolian Morocco Arabic, Berber, French Mozambique Portuguese, Bantu languages Namibia Afrikaans, German, English, African languages Nauru Nauruan, English Nepal Nepalese, Newari, Bhutia, Maithali Netherlands Dutch, Frisian New Caledonia French, Melanesian languages, Tahitian, Wallisian Nicaragua Spanish Nigeria English, Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo Norway Norwegian Oman Arabic Pakistan Urdu, Punjabi, English Papua New Guinea English, Melanesian Pidgin, Hiri Motu Paraguay Spanish, Guarani Peru Spanish, Quechua, Ayamara Philippines Tagalog, Cebuano Poland Polish Portugal Portuguese Puerto Rico Spanish, English Qatar Arabic Romania Romanian, Serbian, German, Hungarian Rwanda Kinyarwanda, French Saudi Arabia Arabic Senegal French, Wolof, Serer Seychelles French, Creole, English Singapore Mandarin, Cantonese, Malaysian, English, Tamil Slovakia Slovak, Czech, Hungarian Slovenia Slovene Solomon Islands English Pidgin Somalia Somali, Arabic, English, Italian South Africa Afrikaans, English, Xhosa, Zulu, Swahili Spain Spanish, Catalan, Bzsque, Galician Sri Lanka Sinhalese, Tamil Sudan Arabic, English, Dinka, Nuer Sweden Swedish Switzerland German, French, Italian Syria Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian Taiwan Chinese dialects Tajikistan Tajik, Russian Tanzania Swahili, English Thailand Thai, Hokkien, Mandarin, Teo Chiew, Laotian, Malay, Khmer Tunisia Arabic, French Turkey Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish Turkmenistan Turkmani, Russian, Uzbeck Uganda English, Swahili, Luganda, Ateso, Luo Ukraine Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, Polish United Arab Emirates Arabic, Farsi, English Uruguay Spanish Vanuatu Bislama, French, English, Pidgin Vatican City State Latin, Italian Venezuela Spanish, Native American Indian languages Vietnam Vietnamese, Cantonese, Teo Chiew, Mandarin Yemen Arabic Yugoslavia See Former Yugoslavia Zambia English, Tonga, Nyanja and other African dialects Zimbabwe English, Shone and other African languages and dialects