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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 CIS |
| 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 |
| Indonesian |
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 |
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