languages
Asia
Country
Official and national Languages
Other spoken Languages Afghanistan
Pashto (Pashtu, Pushtu) an Eastern Iranian language, it is the native language of the Pashtun people.
Dari Persian (Fārsī-ye Darī) also known as Afghan Persian. other Turkic and minor languages.
Armenia
Armenian (Hayeren) is an independent, one-language subgroup within the Indo-European language family.
The unique Armenian alphabet, which consists of 39 characters, was created in 405 AD by a monk named Mesrop Mashtots.
Russian widely used
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani (Azeri; a Turkic language of the Altaic family) 89%
Russian 3%, Armenian 2%, other 6%
Bahrain
Arabic (Arabiyya)
English, Farsi, Urdu
Bangladesh
Bengali (Bangla)
English
Bhutan
Bhutanese (Dzongkha)
The Bhotes (the principal ethnic majority 50%) speak various Tibetan dialects like Tshanglakha and Khenkha, Nepalese speak various Nepalese dialects like Lhotsamkha.
Brunei Darussalam
Malay, English
Chinese
Cambodia
Khmer spoken by more than 95% of the population (Khmer language is influenced by spoken and written Thai) some French still spoken, English increasingly popular as a second language.
China
Standard Chinese called also Putonghua (普通话) or Mandarin.
Wu 吴语 - spoken in Shanghai and in Zhejiang province and Jiangsu province.
Yue 粤 - Cantonese, official in Hong Kong and Macau.
Uyghur (Xinjiang)
English (Hong Kong), Portuguese (Macau), Tibetan (Tibet), Mongolian (Inner Mongolia).
Other Chinese dialects like Min, Hakka (Kejia), Gan and Xiang.
Cyprus
Greek, Turkish
English
EUROPE
Country
Official and national Languages
Other spoken Languages
Albania
Albanian (Shqip, Tosk (Toskë) is the official dialect)
Shqip-Gheg dialect (Gegë), Greek, Italian
Andorra
Catalan
French, Castilian, Portuguese
Austria
German, Slovene (official in Carinthia), Croatian and Hungarian (official in Burgenland) Belarus
Belarusian, Russian Belgium
Dutch 60%, French 40%, German less
Country
Official and national Languages
Other spoken Languages Afghanistan
Pashto (Pashtu, Pushtu) an Eastern Iranian language, it is the native language of the Pashtun people.
Dari Persian (Fārsī-ye Darī) also known as Afghan Persian. other Turkic and minor languages.
Armenia
Armenian (Hayeren) is an independent, one-language subgroup within the Indo-European language family.
The unique Armenian alphabet, which consists of 39 characters, was created in 405 AD by a monk named Mesrop Mashtots.
Russian widely used
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani (Azeri; a Turkic language of the Altaic family) 89%
Russian 3%, Armenian 2%, other 6%
Bahrain
Arabic (Arabiyya)
English, Farsi, Urdu
Bangladesh
Bengali (Bangla)
English
Bhutan
Bhutanese (Dzongkha)
The Bhotes (the principal ethnic majority 50%) speak various Tibetan dialects like Tshanglakha and Khenkha, Nepalese speak various Nepalese dialects like Lhotsamkha.
Brunei Darussalam
Malay, English
Chinese
Cambodia
Khmer spoken by more than 95% of the population (Khmer language is influenced by spoken and written Thai) some French still spoken, English increasingly popular as a second language.
China
Standard Chinese called also Putonghua (普通话) or Mandarin.
Wu 吴语 - spoken in Shanghai and in Zhejiang province and Jiangsu province.
Yue 粤 - Cantonese, official in Hong Kong and Macau.
Uyghur (Xinjiang)
English (Hong Kong), Portuguese (Macau), Tibetan (Tibet), Mongolian (Inner Mongolia).
Other Chinese dialects like Min, Hakka (Kejia), Gan and Xiang.
Cyprus
Greek, Turkish
English
EUROPE
Country
Official and national Languages
Other spoken Languages
Albania
Albanian (Shqip, Tosk (Toskë) is the official dialect)
Shqip-Gheg dialect (Gegë), Greek, Italian
Andorra
Catalan
French, Castilian, Portuguese
Austria
German, Slovene (official in Carinthia), Croatian and Hungarian (official in Burgenland) Belarus
Belarusian, Russian Belgium
Dutch 60%, French 40%, German less