Alphabetized by Language
| LANGUAGE | COUNTRY(IES) |
|---|---|
| Adangme | Ghana |
| Afrikaans | South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi |
| Aiku | New Guinea |
| Akan | Ghana |
| Albanian | Albania |
| Algonquin | United States Canada |
| Amharic (aka Ethiopian) | Ethopia |
| Amoy (aka Fukienese) | Taiwan, China |
| Arabic | An official language of Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanan, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and the Republic of Yemen. |
| Araucanian | Chile |
| Arawak | Guyana |
| Armenian | Armenia |
| Assamese | India |
| Aymara | Bolivia, Peru |
| Azeri | Iran, Azerbaijan |
| Baharlu (dialect of | Iran (17.2 percent of the population speak Azerbaijani) Azerbaijani) |
| Balante | Guinea-Bissau |
| Balinese | Indonesia |
| Baluchi | Iran, Pakistan |
| Bambara | Mali |
| Basque | Spoken by the Basque people in Spain and France. |
| Belorussian | Belorussia |
| Bemba | Zambia |
| Bengali | Bangladesh, India |
| Bhili | India |
| Bihari (official spelling Birhor, Bihor) |
India |
| Bongo Talk | Jamaica |
| Brahui | Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Bangladesh |
| Breton | France |
| Bulgarian | Bulgaria |
| Burmese | Burma (now known as the Union of Myanmar) |
| Camboge (aka Khmer) | Cambodia (also known as Kampuchea) |
| Catal | Spoken in Spain, parts of France |
| Cebuan | Phillippines |
| Cham | Cambodia |
| Chamor (also called Chamorro) | Guam, Northern Mariana Islands |
| Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese) | China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand |
| Czech | Czech Republic |
| Dagomba (aka Dagbane) | Ghana |
| Danish | Denmark |
| Dari (called Farsi in Iran) | Afghanistan |
| Dejula | Burkina Faso |
| Dutch | Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles |
| Estonian | Estonia |
| Ethiopian (aka Amharic) | Ethiopia |
| Ewe | Ghana, Togo |
| Fante (aka Fanti) | Ghana |
| Fanti | Ghana |
| Farsi (called Dari in Afghanistan) | Iran |
| Finnish | Finland |
| Flemish | Belgium |
| Fon | Dahomey |
| French | France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Haiti, and French dependencies. It is also spoken in many African and Asian nations. |
| Fukienese (aka Amoy) | Taiwan, China |
| Fulani | Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Cameroon |
| Ga | Ghana |
| Galician | Spain (Galicia) |
| Galla | Ethiopia, Kenya |
| Garifuna | Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicarauga |
| Georgian | Georgia |
| German | Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Switzerland |
| Grebo | Liberia |
| Greek | Greece, Cyprus |
| Guarani | Paraguay |
| Gujarati | India |
| Gurma | Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso |
| Haitian Creole | Haiti |
| Hausa | Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Dahomey |
| Hebrew | Israel |
| Hindi | India |
| Hmong | China, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Kampuchea |
| Hungarian | Hungary |
| Ibo | Nigeria |
| Icelandic | Iceland |
| Ilocano | Philippines |
| Indonesian (aka Bahasa Indonesian) | Indonesia |
| Irish Gaelic | Ireland |
| Italian | Italy, Switzerland |
| Itonama (aka Saramo) | Bolivia |
| Jamaican Creole English | Jamaica |
| Jamaican Patwa | Jamaica |
| Japanese | Japan |
| Javanese | Indonesia |
| Johkha | Bhutan |
| Kabyle | Algeria |
| Kafiri | India |
| Kamba | Kenya |
| Kanarese (aka Kannada) | India |
| Kanuri | Nigeria |
| Karen | Burma |
| Kashmiri | India, Pakistan |
| Kazakh | Kazakhstan |
| Khmer (aka Camboge) | Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) |
| Khowan | India |
| Kikuya | Kenya |
| Korean | Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North) Republic of Korea (South) |
| Kpelle | Liberia |
| Kurdish | Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria |
| Lakota | United States |
| Lao | Laos |
| Latvian | Latvia |
| Lithuanian | Lithuania |
| Luba | Zaire |
| Luganda | Uganda, Tanzania |
| Luo | Kenya |
| Macedonian | Macedonia |
| Malagasy | Malagasy Republic |
| Malay | Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia |
| Malayalam | India |
| Malinke | Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia |
| Maltese | Malta |
| Marathi | India |
| Mende | Sierra Leone, Liberia |
| Mohawk | United States |
| Mossi (aka More) | Burkina Faso |
| Nahuatl | Mexico |
| Navajo | United States |
| Ndebele | Zimbabwe |
| Nepali | Nepal, India, Bhutan, Sikkim |
| Norwegian | Norway |
| Nyanja (aka Chinyanja) | Zambia |
| Oneida | United States |
| Orija | India |
| Ossetian | Georgia |
| Palenque (aka Palenquero) | Colombia |
| Pampa (aka Puelche) | Argentina |
| Papiamento | Netherlands Antilles |
| Pashto (aka Pushto) | Afghanistan, Pakistan |
| Persian | Iran, Afghanistan (called Farsi in Iran; Dari in Afghanistan) |
| Pilipino (aka Tagalog) | Philippines |
| Polish | Poland |
| Portuguese | Brazil, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau |
| ProvenHal | France |
| Punjabi (aka Panjabi) | Pakistan, India |
| Quashie Talk | Jamaica |
| Quechua | Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador |
| Quiche | Guatemala |
| Rajasthani | India |
| Romanian | Romania, Moldava |
| Romansch | Switzerland |
| Rundi | Burundi |
| Russian | Russia, Former Soviet Republics |
| Rwanda | Rwanda |
| Samoan | Samoa |
| Sanskrit | India (a literary and classical language spoken by scholars) |
| Saramo (aka Itonama) | Bolivia |
| Sari | Cameroon (no scripture) |
| Scottish Gaelic | Scotland |
| Seneca | United States |
| Serbo-Croatian | Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia |
| Seri | Mexico |
| Shan | Burma (now known as the Union of Myanmar) |
| Shona | Zimbabwe |
| Shua Arabic (Arabic,Shua - a variant of Arabic) |
Chad (30 percent of the population) Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger (Spoken by less than 1/4 million people in these three countries) |
| Shina | India, Pakistan |
| Shluh | Morocco |
| Sidamo | Ethiopia |
| Sindhi | India, Pakistan |
| Sinhalese | Sri Lanka |
| Slovak | Slovakia |
| Slovenian | Slovenia |
| Somali | Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya |
| Sotho-Northern | South Africa |
| Sotho-Southern | South Africa, Lesotho |
| South Arabic | Saudi Arabia, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Oman |
| Spanish | An official language of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela. |
| Sudanese Arabic (not intelligible to speakers of modern Arabic) |
Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia (spoken by less than 1 percent of the population in these countries) |
| Sukuma | Tanzania |
| Sundanese | Indonesia |
| Swahili (aka Kiswahili) | Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire |
| Swazi | Swaziland |
| Swedish | Sweden |
| Tajik | Tajikistan |
| Tagalog (aka Pilipino) | Philippines |
| Tamazight | Morocco |
| Tamil | Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore |
| Telugu | India |
| Thai | Thailand |
| Tibetan | Tibet Autonomous Region of China |
| Tigre | Ethiopia |
| Tigrinya | Ethiopia |
| Tonga | Zambia |
| Tuareg | Burkina Faso |
| Turkish | Turkey, Cyprus |
| Turkman (aka Turkoman) | Afghanistan, Turkmenistan |
| Twi | Ghana |
| Ukrainian | Ukraine |
| Urdu | Pakistan, India |
| Uzbek | Uzbekistan, Afghanistan |
| Vietnamese | Vietnam |
| Visayak (aka Bisaya) | Brunei |
| Western Caribbean Creole English | Jamaica |
| Wolof | Senegal |
| Yiddish | Israel, Poland, Germany, Romania, former Soviet Republics |
| Yonba | Nigeria |
| Yoruba | Nigeria, Dahomey |
| Zulu | South Africa; Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland |
Last Updated:
February 9, 2012