91 | Guinea-Bissau | Crioulo 90.4%, Portuguese 27.1% (official), French 5.1%, English 2.9%, other 2.4%. Note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2008 est.) |
92 | Guinea | French (official). Note: each ethnic group has its own language |
93 | Guyana | English (official), Guyanese Creole, Amerindian languages (including Caribbean and Arawak languages), Indian languages (including Caribbean Hindustani, a dialect of Hindi), Chinese (2014 est.) |
94 | Haiti | French (official), Creole (official) |
95 | Holy See (Vatican City) | Italian, Latin, French, various other languages |
96 | Honduras | Spanish (official), Amerindian dialects |
97 | Hong Kong | Cantonese (official) 89.5%, English (official) 3.5%, Putonghua (Mandarin) 1.4%, other Chinese dialects 4%, other 1.6% (2011 est.) |
98 | Hungary | Hungarian (official) 99.6%, English 16%, German 11.2%, Russian 1.6%, Romanian 1.3%, French 1.2%, other 4.2%. Note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census Hungarian is the mother tongue of 98.9% of Hungarian speakers (2011 est.) |
99 | Iceland | Icelandic, English, Nordic languages, German widely spoken |
100 | India | Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%. Note: English enjoys the status of subsidiary official language but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication Hindi is the most widely spoken language and primary tongue of 41% of the people there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language (2001 census) |
101 | Indonesia | Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay), English, Dutch, local dialects (of which the most widely spoken is Javanese). Note: more than 700 languages are used in Indonesia |
102 | Iran | Persian (official), Azeri Turkic and Turkic dialects, Kurdish, Gilaki and Mazandarani, Luri, Balochi, Arabic, other |
103 | Iraq | Arabic (official), Kurdish (official), Turkmen (a Turkish dialect) and Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic) are official in areas where they constitute a majority of the population), Armenian |
104 | Ireland | English (official, the language generally used), Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (official, spoken by approximately 38.7% of the population as a first or second language in 2011 mainly spoken in areas along the western coast) |
105 | Isle of Man | English, Manx Gaelic (about 2% of the population has some knowledge) |
106 | Israel | Hebrew (official), Arabic (used officially for Arab minority), English (most commonly used foreign language) |
107 | Italy | Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German-speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area) |
108 | Jamaica | English, English patois |
109 | Japan | Japanese |
110 | Jersey | English 94.5% (official), Portuguese 4.6%, other 0.9% (2001 census) |
111 | Jordan | Arabic (official), English (widely understood among upper and middle classes) |
112 | Kazakhstan | Kazakh (official, Qazaq) 74% (understand spoken language), Russian (official, used in everyday business, designated the "language of interethnic communication") 94.4% (understand spoken language) (2009 est.) |
113 | Kenya | English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages |
114 | Kiribati | I-Kiribati, English (official) |
115 | Korea, North | Korean |
116 | Korea, South | Korean, English (widely taught in junior high and high school) |
117 | Kosovo | Albanian (official) 94.5%, Bosnian 1.7%, Serbian (official) 1.6%, Turkish 1.1%, other 0.9% (includes Romani), unspecified 0.1%. Note: in municipalities where a community's mother tongue is not one of Kosovo's official languages, the language of that community may be given official status according to the 2006 Law on the Use of Languages (2011 est.) |
118 | Kuwait | Arabic (official), English widely spoken |
119 | Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyz (official) 71.4%, Uzbek 14.4%, Russian (official) 9%, other 5.2% (2009 est.) |
120 | Laos | Lao (official), French, English, various ethnic languages |