English-Speaking Countries
Year 2006 aggregate estimates suggest approximately 375 million native English speakers, and a combined native and non-native number of English speakers of over 1.5 billion worldwide.
Where
English is Official
| COUNTRY | LANGUAGES |
| Antigua and Barbuda | English (official), local dialects |
| Argentina | Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French |
| Australia | English 79%, native and other languages |
| Austria | German, English
58%, French 10%, Croatian, Slovene,
Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Romani, Turkish |
| Bahamas | English (official), Creole (among Haitian immigrants) |
| Bahrain | Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu |
| Bangladesh | Bangla (official), English |
| Barbados | English |
| Belgium | Dutch, English 59%, French 48%, German 27%, Walloon, Picard, Champenois, Lorrain, Yiddish, Arabic, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese, Italian |
| Belize | English (official), Spanish, Mayan, Garifuna (Carib), Creole |
| Benin | French (official), Fon, Yoruba, tribal languages |
| Botswana | English 2% (official), Setswana 78%, Kalanga 8%, Sekgalagadi 3%, other (2001) |
| Brazil | Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French |
| Brunei | Malay (official), English, Chinese |
| Cambodia | Khmer 95% (official), French, English |
| Cameroon | French, English (both official); 24 major African language groups |
| Canada | English 59.3%, French 23.2% (both official); other 17.5% |
| China | Mandarin 70%, English 23%, Wu (Shanghainese), Yue (Cantonese), Min, Xiang, Gan, Hakka, Zhuang (Thai), Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur (Turkic), Hmong, Korean |
| Costa Rica | Spanish (official), English |
| Cyprus | Greek, Turkish (both official); English |
| Denmark | Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (Inuit dialect), German; English is the predominant second language |
| Dominica | English (official) and French patois |
| East Timor | Tetum, Portuguese (official); Bahasa Indonesia, English; other indigenous languages, including Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak |
| Egypt | Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes |
| Equatorial Guinea | Spanish, French (both official); pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo |
| Ethiopia | Amharic, Tigrigna, Orominga, Guaragigna, Somali, Arabic, English, over 70 others |
| Fiji | English (official), Fijian, Hindustani |
| Finland | Finnish, English 63%, Swedish 47%, German 18%, French 3%, Sami, Romani, Finnish Sign Language, Russian |
| France | French, English 36%, Spanish 13%, German 8%, Alsatian Basque, Breton, Franco-Provençal, Catalan, Corsican, Flemish, Occitan, Oïl languages (except French), Maghrebi Arabic, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish |
| Gambia | English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous |
| Germany | German, English 51%, French 15%, Danish, Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian, North Frisian, Saterland Frisian, Romani, Low German, Alemanic, Turkish |
| Ghana | English (official), African languages (including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga) |
| Greece | Greek 99% (official), English, French |
| Grenada | English (official), French patois |
| Guyana | English (official), Amerindian dialects, Creole, Hindi, Urdu |
| Honduras | Spanish (official), Amerindian dialects; English widely spoken in business |
| Iceland | Icelandic, English, Nordic languages, German widely spoken |
| India | Hindi 30%, English 31%, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Kannada, Assamese, Sanskrit, Sindhi (all official); Hindi/Urdu; 1,600+ dialects |
| Indonesia | Bahasa Indonesia (official), English, Dutch, Javanese, and more than 580 other languages and dialects |
| Ireland | English, Irish (Gaelic) (both official) |
| Israel | Hebrew (official), Arabic, English |
| Italy | Italian, English 29%, French 14%, German 5%, Sardinian, Friulian (Rhaeto-Romance), Occitan, Romany, Albanian, Franco-Provençal, Slovenian, Ladin, Griko, Alguerese (Catalan), Molise Slavic dialect (Croatian), Corsican, Sicilian, Eastern Lombard, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Insubric Lombard, Ligurian, Piedmontese, Venetian, Neapolitan, Arbëresh, Sinti, Albanian |
| Jamaica | English, Jamaican Creole |
| Jordan | Arabic (official), English |
| Kenya | English (official), Swahili (national), and numerous indigenous languages |
| Kiribati | English (official), I-Kiribati (Gilbertese) |
| Korea, South | Korean, English widely taught |
| Kuwait | Arabic (official), English |
| Laos | Lao (official), French, English, various ethnic languages |
| Lebanon | Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian |
| Lesotho | English, Sesotho (both official); Zulu, Xhosa |
| Liberia | English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic-group languages |
| Malawi | Chichewa 57.2% (official), Chinyanja 12.8%, Chiyao 10.1%, Chitumbuka 9.5%, Chisena 2.7%, Chilomwe 2.4%, Chitonga 1.7%, other 3.6% (1998) |
| Malaysia | Bahasa Melayu (Malay, official), English, Chinese dialects (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai; several indigenous languages (including Iban, Kadazan) in East Malaysia |
| Maldives | Maldivian Dhivehi (official); English spoken by most government officials |
| Malta | Maltese and English (both official) |
| Marshall Islands | Marshallese 98% (two major dialects from the Malayo-Polynesian family), English widely spoken as a second language (both official); Japanese |
| Mauritius | English less than 1% (official), Creole 81%, Bojpoori 12%, French 3% (2000) |
| Micronesia | English (official, common), Chukese, Pohnpeian, Yapase, Kosrean, Ulithian, Woleaian, Nukuoro, Kapingamarangi |
| Monaco | French (official), English, Italian, Monégasque |
| Mozambique | Portuguese 9% (official; second language of 27%), Emakhuwa 26%, Xichangana 11%, Elomwe 8%, Cisena 7%, Echuwabo 6%, other Mozambican languages 32% (1997) |
| Namibia | English 7% (official), Afrikaans is common language of most of the population and of about 60% of the white population, German 32%; indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama |
| Nauru | Nauruan (official), English |
| Nepal | Nepali 48% (official), Maithali 12%, Bhojpuri 7%, Tharu 6%, Tamang 5%, others. English spoken by many in government and business (2001) |
| Netherlands | Dutch, English 70%, German 59%, French 19%, Frisian, Turkish, Arabic |
| New Zealand | English, Maori (both official) |
| Nicaragua | Spanish 98% (official); English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast (1995) |
| Nigeria | English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo, Fulani, and more than 200 others |
| Oman | Arabic (official), English, Baluchi, Urdu, Indian dialects |
| Pakistan | Urdu 8%, English (both official); Punjabi 48%, Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%, Pashtu 8%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%, Burushaski, and others 8% |
| Palau | Palauan 64.7%, English 9.4%, Sonsoralese, Tobi, Angaur (each official on some islands), Filipino 13.5%, Chinese 5.7%, Carolinian 1.5%, Japanese 1.5%, other Asian 2.3%, other languages 1.5% (2000) |
| Palestinian State (proposed) | Arabic, Hebrew, English |
| Panama | Spanish (official), English 14%, many bilingual |
| Papua New Guinea | Tok Pisin (Melanesian Pidgin, the lingua franca), Hiri Motu (in Papua region), English 1%–2%; 715 indigenous languages |
| Philippines | Filipino (based on Tagalog), English (both official); eight major dialects: Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinense |
| Poland | Polish, English 24%, German, Kashubian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Lithuanian, Slovakian, Russian, Armenian, Yiddish, Tatar, Greek, Czech, Karaim |
| Qatar | Arabic (official); English a common second language |
| Romania | Romanian, English 29%, German 6%, Hungarian, Romani, Ukrainian, German, Serbian, Russian |
| Rwanda | Kinyarwanda, French, and English (all official); Kiswahili in commercial centers |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | English |
| St. Lucia | English (official), French patois |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | English, French patois |
| Samoa | Samoan, English |
| Seychelles | Seselwa Creole 92%, English 5%, French (all official) (2002) |
| Sierra Leone | English (official), Mende (southern vernacular), Temne (northern vernacular), Krio (lingua franca) |
| Singapore | Mandarin 35%, English 23%, Malay 14.1%, Hokkien 11.4%, Cantonese 5.7%, Teochew 4.9%, Tamil 3.2%, other Chinese dialects 1.8%, other 0.9% (2000) |
| Solomon Islands | English 1%–2% (official), Melanesian pidgin (lingua franca), 120 indigenous languages |
| Somalia | Somali (official), Arabic, English, Italian |
| South Africa | IsiZulu 23.8%, IsiXhosa 17.6%, Afrikaans 13.3%, Sepedi 9.4%, English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.9%, Xitsonga 4.4%, other 7.2% (2001) |
| Spain | Spanish, English 27%, Catalan/Valencian, French 12%, German 2%, Basque, Galician, Aranese, Aragonese, Astur-Leonese (Asturian, Leonese, Cantabrian, Extremaduran), Eonavian, Fala, Maghrebi Arabic, Romanian |
| Sri Lanka | Sinhala 74% (official and national), Tamil 18% (national), other 8%; English is commonly used in government and spoken competently by about 10% |
| Sudan | Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English |
| Suriname | Dutch (official), Surinamese, English widely spoken, Hindustani, Javanese |
| Swaziland | English, siSwati (both official) |
| Sweden | Swedish, English 89%, German 30%, French 11%, Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sami, Yiddish, Älvdalsmål, Jamtlandic, Scanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Arabic, Persian, Spanish |
| Syria | Arabic (official); Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian widely understood; French, English somewhat understood |
| Tanzania | Swahili, English (both official); Arabic; many local languages |
| Thailand | Thai (Siamese), English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects |
| Tonga | Tongan (an Austronesian language), English |
| Trinidad and Tobago | English (official), Hindi, French, Spanish, Chinese |
| Tuvalu | Tuvaluan, English, Samoan, Kiribati (on the island of Nui) |
| Uganda | English (official), Ganda or Luganda, other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic |
| United Arab Emirates | Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu |
| United Kingdom | English, Welsh, Scots Gaelic |
| United States | English 82%, Spanish 11% (2000) |
| Vanuatu | Bislama 23% (a Melanesian pidgin English), English 2%, French 1% (all 3 official); more than 100 local languages 73% |
| Vietnam | Vietnamese (official); English (increasingly favored as a second language); some French, Chinese, Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
| Zambia | English (official); major vernaculars: Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga; about 70 other indigenous languages |
| Zimbabwe | English (official), Shona, Ndebele (Sindebele), numerous minor tribal dialects |