Most Spoken Languages 🌐

Countries where English is an official language or primary language:

• 🇦🇺 Australia
• 🇳🇿 New Zealand
• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (UK)
• 🇺🇸 United States of America (USA)
• 🇦🇬 Antigua & Barbuda
• 🇧🇸 Bahamas
• 🇧🇧 Barbados
• 🇧🇿 Belize
• 🇨🇰 Cook Islands
• 🇩🇲 Dominica
• 🇬🇩 Grenada
• 🇬🇾 Guyana
• 🇯🇲 Jamaica
• 🇱🇷 Liberia
• 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
• 🇰🇳 Saint Kitts & Nevis
• 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia
• 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent & Grenadines
• 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
• 🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago.

Countries where English is spoken as a minority language:

• 🇧🇼 Botswana
• 🇧🇮 Burundi
• 🇨🇲 Cameroon
• 🇨🇦 Canada (not in Quebec, Nunavut and northern New Brunswick)
• 🇸🇿 Eswatini
• 🇫🇯 Fiji (used as a “lingua franca” trade language)
• 🇬🇲 Gambia
• 🇬🇭 Ghana (used as a “lingua franca” trade language)
• 🇮🇳 India (used officially and for education)
• 🇮🇪 Ireland (co-official language with Irish)
• 🇰🇪 Kenya (used in business and education)
• 🇰🇮 Kiribati
• 🇰🇮 Lesotho
• 🇰🇮 Malawi
• 🇲🇹 Malta (used officially and for education and business)
• 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
• 🇲🇺 Mauritius
• 🇫🇲 Micronesia
• 🇳🇦 Namibia (used as a “lingua franca” trade language)
• 🇳🇷 Nauru (minority language but widely spoken)
• 🇳🇬 Nigeria (used as a “lingua franca” trade language)
• 🇳🇺 Niue
• 🇵🇰 Pakistan (minority language but used officially and for education)
• 🇵🇼 Palau
• 🇵🇭 Philippines (co-official language with Filipi)
• 🇷🇼 Rwanda (used officially and for education)
• 🇼🇸 Samoa
• 🇸🇨 Seychelles
• 🇸🇬 Singapore (used as a “lingua franca” trade language, widely spoken, used in education)
• 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands
• 🇿🇦 South Africa (used as a “lingua franca” for trade and used officially in education)
• 🇸🇸 South Sudan
• 🇸🇩 Sudan
• 🇹🇿 Tanzania
• 🇹🇴 Tonga
• 🇹🇻 Tuvalu
• 🇺🇬 Uganda (used officially for education)
• 🇻🇺 Vanuatu
• 🇿🇲 Zambia
• 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe (used as a “lingua franca” trade language).

Tops the list of the most spoken languages in the world.

• 🇨🇳 China (as Putonghua)
• 🇹🇼Taiwan (as Guoyu)
• 🇸🇬 Singapore (as Huayu)

Countries where Mandarin Chinese is spoken as a minority language:

• 🇲🇲 Myanmar (Wa State)
• 🇺🇸 United States of America (Minority language. Chinese is the third most spoken language in the USA).

Mandarin is second in the list of the most spoken languages in the world.

• 🇮🇳 India.

Hindu is third in the list of the most spoken languages in the world.

• 🇪🇸 Spain
• 🇦🇷 Argentina
• 🇧🇴 Bolivia
• 🇮🇨 Canary Islands
• 🇨🇱 Chile
• 🇨🇴 Colombia
• 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
• 🇨🇺 Cuba
• 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
• 🇪🇨 Ecuador
• 🇸🇻 El Salvador
• 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
• 🇬🇹 Guatemala
• 🇭🇳 Honduras
• 🇲🇽 Mexico
• 🇳🇮 Nicaragua
• 🇵🇦 Panama
• 🇵🇾 Paraguay
• 🇵🇪 Peru
• 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico (USA Territory)
• 🇺🇾 Uruguay
• 🇺🇸 United States of America. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the USA.
• 🇻🇪 Venezuela.

Spanish is widely spoken across Central & South America, apart from Brazil, and is foruth in the list of the most spoken languages in the world.

Countries where French is an official language or primary language:

• 🇫🇷 France
• 🇧🇪 Belgium
• 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
• 🇧🇮 Burundi
• 🇨🇲 Cameroon
• 🇨🇦 Canada
• 🇨🇫 Central African Republic
• 🇹🇩 Chad
• 🇰🇲 Comoros
• 🇨🇬 Congo / Congo Republic
• 🇩🇯 Djibouti
• 🇨🇩 DR Congo / Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
• 🇬🇦 Gabon
• 🇬🇳 Guinea
• 🇭🇹 Haiti
• 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
• 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
• 🇲🇬 Madagascar
• 🇲🇱 Mali
• 🇲🇨 Monaco
• 🇳🇪 Niger
• 🇷🇼 Rwanda
• 🇸🇳 Senegal
• 🇸🇨 Seychelles
• 🇨🇭 Switzerland
• 🇹🇬 Togo
• 🇻🇺 Vanuatu.

French Territories where French is an official language or primary language:

• Aosta Valley
• Clipperton
• 🇵🇫 French Polynesia
• 🇹🇫 French Southern Territories
• 🇳🇨 New Caledonia
• 🇧🇱 Saint Barthélemy
• 🇲🇫 Saint Martin
• Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
• 🇼🇫 Wallis & Futuna.

Fifth in the list of the most spoken languages in the world.

• 🇩🇿 Algeria
• 🇧🇭 Bahrain
• 🇹🇩 Chad
• 🇩🇯 Djibouti
• 🇪🇬 Egypt
• 🇮🇶 Iraq
• 🇯🇴 Jordan
• 🇰🇼 Kuwait
• 🇱🇧 Lebanon
• 🇱🇾 Libya
• 🇲🇦 Morocco
• 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
• 🇸🇴 Somalia
• 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
• 🇾🇪 Yemen.

Arabic is the most widely spoken language across the Middle East, Arabian Peninsula and North Africa.

• 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
• 🇮🇳 India (West Bengal, Tripura, Assam’s Barak Valley and Jharkhand).

Countries where Russian is an official language or primary language:

• 🇷🇺 Russia
• Abkhazia (disputed state, co-official)
• 🇧🇾 Belarus
• 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan (co-official)
• 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan (co-official)
• 🇲🇩 Moldova (Gagauzia (co-official), Transnistria (disputed state. co-official)
• South Ossetia (disputed state)
• 🇹🇯 Tajikistan
• 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan (inter-ethnic communication)

Countries where Russian is spoken as a minority language:

• 🇦🇲 Armenia
• 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
• 🇨🇳 China
• 🇨🇾 Cyprus
• 🇨🇿 Czechia / Czech Republic
• 🇮🇱 Israel
• 🇱🇻 Latvia
• 🇲🇩 Moldova
• 🇲🇳 Mongolia
• 🇰🇵 North Korea
• 🇵🇱 Poland
• 🇷🇴 Romania (regional and minority)
• 🇸🇰 Slovakia
• 🇺🇦 Ukraine (disputed Republic of Crimea)
• 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan (inter-ethnic communication).

Countries and territories where Portuguese is an official language:

• 🇵🇹 Portugal
• 🇧🇷 Brazil (most spoken language)
• 🇦🇴 Angola (minority and second language)
• 🇨🇻 Cape Verde / Cabo Verde (mostly spoken as a second language)
• 🇹🇱 East Timor / Timor-Leste (minority language)
• 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea (minority language)
• 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau (minority language)
• 🇨🇳 Macau China SAR (minority language)
• 🇲🇿 Mozambique (minority language)
• 🇸🇹 São Tomé & Príncipe (most spoken language).

• 🇮🇩 Indonesia
• 🇹🇱 East Timor / Timor-Leste.

• 🇮🇳 India (as Hindi, Urdu)
• 🇵🇰 Pakistan (as Urdu).

Countries and territories where German is an official language:

• 🇩🇪 Germany
• 🇦🇹 Austria (most spoken language)
• 🇧🇪 Belgium (minority language spoken in German communities)
• 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein (most spoken language)
• 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (co-official language with French and Luxembourgish)
• 🇨🇭 Switzerland (co-official language at federal level with French, Italian and Romansh).

• 🇯🇵 Japan
• 🇧🇷 Brazil
• 🇵🇼 Palau
• 🇺🇸 United States of America. Japanese is a minority language in the USA.

Countries and territories where Swahili is an official language:

• 🇨🇩 DR Congo / Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 🇰🇪 Kenya
• 🇷🇼 Rwanda
• 🇹🇿 Tanzania
• 🇺🇬 Uganda.

Countries where Swahili is spoken as a minority language:

• 🇧🇮 Burundi
• 🇲🇿 Mozambique.

• 🇮🇳 India (Primarily spoken in Maharashtra, Goa and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (DNHDD) union territory).

• 🇮🇳 India (primarily in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Yanam, Andaman and Nicobar Islands).

• 🇹🇷 Turkey
• Northern Cyprus (disputed territory)
• 🇨🇾 Cyprus.

Countries where Turkish is spoken as a minority language:

• 🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina
  🇬🇷 Greece
  🇮🇶 Iraq
  🇽🇰 Kosovo
  🇲🇰 North Macedonia
  🇷🇴 Romania.

• 🇨🇳China, Hong Kong as Chinese
• 🇨🇳 China, Macau as Chinese.

• 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
• 🇸🇬 Singapore
• 🇮🇳 India (Tamil Nadu, Puducherry)

Countries where Tamil is spoken as a minority language:

• 🇲🇾 Malaysia
• 🇲🇺 Mauritius
• 🇿🇦 South Africa

• 🇵🇰 Pakistan (spoken is Punjab, Azad Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions).

• 🇨🇳 China (Anhui, Fujian, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shanghai, Zhejiang and SAR Hong Kong and Macau
• Overseas Chinese communities worldwide with origins from Shanghai, Jiangsu and/or Zhejiang.

• 🇰🇵 North Korea
• 🇰🇷 South Korea
• 🇨🇳China (Yanbian Prefecture and Changbai County).

Countries where Korean is spoken as a minority language:

• 🇷🇺Russia (Primorsky Krai).

• 🇻🇳 Vietnam

Countries where Vietnamese is spoken as a minority language:

• 🇨🇿 Czechia / Czech Republic
• 🇰🇭 Cambodia (Kampong Luong, floating village)
• 🇫🇷 France
• 🇩🇪 Germany
• 🇺🇸 United States of America (USA).

• 🇳🇪 Niger
• 🇳🇬 Nigeria
• 🇬🇭 Ghana.

Countries where Hausa is spoken as a minority language:

• 🇧🇯 Benin
• 🇨🇲 Cameroon
• 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
• 🇱🇾 Libya
• 🇹🇬 Togo.

• 🇮🇩 Indonesia (Java island).

• 🇪🇬 Egypt.

• 🇮🇹 Italy
• 🇸🇲 San Marino
• 🇨🇭 Switzerland
• 🇻🇦 Vatican City / Holy See.

Countries where Italian is spoken as a minority language:

• 🇸🇮 Slovenia (Slovenian Istria region)
• 🇭🇷 Croatia (Istria County).

• 🇹🇭 Thailand

Countries where Thai is spoken as a minority language:

• 🇰🇭 Cambodia (Koh Kong province)
• 🇲🇾 Malaysia (Kedah, Kelantan states)
• 🇲🇲 Myanmar (Tanintharyi region).

• 🇮🇳 India (Primarily spoken in Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (DNHDD) union territory).

• 🇮🇳 India (Karnataka state).

• 🇮🇷 Iran
• 🇦🇫 Afghanistan (as Dari)
• 🇹🇯 Tajikistan (as Tajik).