世界上所有國家多有兩種以上的語言流通,有的國家包含方言與原住民語言甚至超過百種,
也有外來移民帶來的語言,僅有一個語言流通的國家反而是少數。在全球化影響下原本強勢的語言更強勢,而強勢語言在不同國家流傳也會因為本身文化、民族性不同、時間長短以及與不同國家的外來語交流而產生地區性的變化如腔調與字彙等變化甚至變成不同的方言,而各國莫不積極保護其本國的原住民語言與本土語言以面對外來強勢語言的競爭,避免弱勢語言因而失傳。
也有外來移民帶來的語言,僅有一個語言流通的國家反而是少數。在全球化影響下原本強勢的語言更強勢,而強勢語言在不同國家流傳也會因為本身文化、民族性不同、時間長短以及與不同國家的外來語交流而產生地區性的變化如腔調與字彙等變化甚至變成不同的方言,而各國莫不積極保護其本國的原住民語言與本土語言以面對外來強勢語言的競爭,避免弱勢語言因而失傳。
世界國家官方與流通語言列表:
阿富汗
Afghanistan |
Dari
Persian(official)
Pashtu
(official)
other Turkic and minor
languages |
阿爾巴尼亞
Albania |
Albanian
(Tosk is the official dialect)
Greek |
阿爾及利亞
Algeria |
Arabic
(official)
French
Berber dialects |
安道爾
Andorra |
Catalán
(official)
French
Castilian
Portuguese |
安哥拉
Angola |
Portuguese
(official)
Bantu
other African languages |
安地卡及巴布達
Antigua and Barbuda |
English
(official)
local dialects |
阿根廷
Argentina |
Spanish
(official)
English
Italian
German
French |
亞美尼亞
Armenia |
Armenian
98%
Yezidi
Russian |
澳大利亞
Australia |
English
79%
native and other languages |
奧地利
Austria |
German
(official nationwide)
Slovene,Croatian,Hungarian
(each official in one region) |
亞塞拜然
Azerbaijan |
Azerbaijani
Turkic 89%
Russian
3%
Armenian
2%
other 6% (1995 est.) |
巴哈馬
Bahamas |
English
(official)
Creole (among Haitian
immigrants) |
巴林
Bahrain |
Arabic
English
Farsi
Urdu |
孟加拉
Bangladesh |
Bangla
(official)
English |
巴貝多
Barbados |
English |
白俄羅斯
Belarus |
Belorussian
(White Russian)
Russian
other |
比利時
Belgium |
Dutch
(Flemish) 60% (official)
French
40% (official)
German less than 1%
(official) |
貝里斯
Belize |
English
(official)
Spanish,
Mayan
Garifuna
(Carib)
Creole |
貝南
Benin |
French
(official)
Fon
Yoruba
tribal languages |
不丹
Bhutan |
Dzongkha
(official)
Tibetan
dialects (among Bhotes)
Nepalese dialects (among
Nepalese) |
波利維亞
Bolivia |
Spanish
(official)
Quechua
(official)
Aymara (official) |
波希尼亞與赫塞哥維那
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Bosnian
Croatian
Serbian |
波札納
Botswana |
English
2% (official)
Setswana
78%
Kalanga
8%
Sekgalagadi
3%
other (2001) |
巴西
Brazil |
Portuguese
(official)
Spanish
English
French |
汶萊
Brunei |
Malay
(official)
English
Chinese |
保加利亞
Bulgaria |
Bulgarian
85%
Turkish
10%
Roma 4% |
布吉納法索
Burkina Faso |
French
(official)
native African (Sudanic)
languages 90% |
蒲隆地
Burundi |
Kirundi
(official)
French
(official)
Swahili |
柬埔寨
Cambodia |
Khmer
95% (official)
French
English |
喀麥隆
Cameroon |
French
(official)
English
(official)
24 major African language
groups |
加拿大
Canada |
English
59.3% (official)
French
23.2% (official)
other 17.5% |
維德角
Cape Verde |
Portuguese
Criuolo |
中非共和國
Central African Republic |
French
(official)
Sangho
(lingua franca, national)
tribal languages |
查德
Chad |
French
(official)
Arabic
(official)
Sara
more than 120 languages and
dialects |
智利
Chile |
Spanish |
中國
China |
Standard
Chinese (Mandarin/Putonghua)
Yue
(Cantonese)
Wu
(Shanghaiese)
Minbei
(Fuzhou)
Minnan
(Hokkien)
Xiang
Gan
Hakka
dialects
minority languages |
哥倫比亞
Colombia |
Spanish |
葛摩
Comoros |
Arabic
(official)
French
(both official)
Shikomoro (Swahili/Arabic
blend) |
剛果民主共和國
Democratic Republic of the
Congo |
French
(official)
Lingala
Kingwana
Kikongo
Tshiluba |
剛果
Republic of Congo |
French
(official)
Lingala
Monokutuba
Kikongo
many local languages and
dialects |
哥斯大黎加
Costa Rica |
Spanish
(official)
English |
象牙海岸
Côte d'Ivoire |
French
(official)
African languages (Dioula
esp.) |
克羅埃西亞
Croatia |
Croatian
96% (official)
other 4% (including
Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, German) |
古巴
Cuba |
Spanish |
塞普勒斯
Cyprus |
Greek
(official)
Turkish
(official)
English |
捷克
Czech Republic |
Czech |
丹麥
Denmark |
Danish
Faroese
Greenlandic
(Inuit dialect)
German
English is the predominant
second language |
吉布地
Djibouti |
French
(official)
Arabic
(official)
Somali
Afar |
多米尼克
Dominica |
English
(official)
French patois |
多明尼加
Dominican Republic |
Spanish |
East Timor |
Tetum
Portuguese
(official)
Bahasa
Indonesia
English
other indigenous languages,
including Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak |
厄瓜多
Ecuador |
Spanish
(official)
Quechua
other Amerindian languages |
埃及
Egypt |
Arabic
(official)
English and French widely
understood by educated classes |
薩爾瓦多
El Salvador |
Spanish
Nahua (among some
Amerindians) |
赤道幾內亞
Equatorial Guinea |
Spanish
(official)
French
(official)
pidgin
English
Fang
Bubi
Ibo |
厄利垂亞
Eritrea |
Afar
Arabic
Tigre
and Kunama
Tigrinya
other Cushitic languages |
愛沙尼亞
Estonia |
Estonian
67% (official)
Russian
30%
other (2000) |
衣索匹亞
Ethiopia |
Amharic
Tigrigna
Orominga
Guaragigna
Somali
Arabic
English
over 70 others |
斐濟
Fiji |
English
(official)
Fijian
Hindustani |
芬蘭
Finland |
Finnish
92% (official)
Swedish
6% (official)
small Sami- (Lapp) and
Russian-speaking minorities |
法國
France |
French
100%
rapidly declining regional
dialects (Provençal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque,
Flemish) |
加彭
Gabon |
French
(official)
Fang
Myene
Nzebi
Bapounou/Eschira
Bandjabi |
甘比亞
Gambia |
English
(official)
Mandinka,
Wolof
Fula
other indigenous |
喬治亞
Georgia |
Georgian
71% (official)
Russian
9%
Armenian
7%
Azerbaijani
6%
other 7% (Abkhaz is the
official language in Abkhazia) |
德國
Germany |
German |
迦納
Ghana |
English
(official)
African languages
(including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga) |
希臘
Greece |
Greek
99% (official)
English
French |
格瑞納達
Grenada |
English
(official)
French patois |
瓜地馬拉
Guatemala |
Spanish
60%
Amerindian languages 40%
(23 officially recognized Amerindian languages, including Quiche,
Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, and Xinca) |
幾內亞
Guinea |
French
(official)
native tongues (Malinké,
Susu, Fulani) |
幾內亞比索
Guinea-Bissau |
Portuguese
(official)
Criolo
African languages |
圭亞那
Guyana |
English
(official)
Amerindian
dialects
Creole
Hindi
Urdu |
海地
Haiti |
Creole
(official)
French (official) |
宏都拉斯
Honduras |
Spanish
(official)
Amerindian
dialects
English is widely spoken in
business |
香港
Hong Kong |
Cantonese
English(official)
Traditional Chinese(official) |
匈牙利
Hungary |
Magyar
(Hungarian) 94%
other 6% |
冰島
Iceland |
Icelandic
English
Nordic
languages
German is widely spoken |
印度
India |
Hindi
30% (official)
English
(official)
Bengali
(official)
Gujarati
(official)
Kashmiri
(official)
Malayalam
(official)
Marathi
(official)
Oriya
(official)
Punjabi
(official)
Tamil
(official)
Telugu
(official)
Urdu
(official)
Kannada
(official)
Assamese
(official)
Sanskrit
(official)
Sindhi
(official)
Hindi/Urdu
1,600+ dialects |
印尼
Indonesia |
Bahasa
Indonesia (official)
English
Dutch
Javanese
and more than 580 other
languages and dialects |
伊朗
Iran |
Persian
and Persian dialects 58%
Turkic
and Turkic dialects 26%
Kurdish
9%
Luri
2%
Balochi
1%
Arabic
1%
Turkish
1%
other 2% |
伊拉克
Iraq |
Arabic
(official)
Kurdish
(official in Kurdish regions)
Assyrian
Armenian |
愛爾蘭
Ireland |
English
(official)
Irish (Gaelic) (official) |
以色列
Israel |
Hebrew
(official)
Arabic
English |
義大利
Italy |
Italian
(official)
German-, French-, and
Slovene-speaking minorities |
牙買加
Jamaica |
English
Jamaican Creole |
日本
Japan |
Japanese(The accents are different from Tokyo & Osaka.) |
約旦
Jordan |
Arabic
(official)
English |
Kazakhstan |
Kazak
(Qazaq, state language) 64%
Russian (official, used in
everyday business) 95% (2001 est.) |
肯亞
Kenya |
English
(official)
Swahili
(national)
and numerous indigenous
languages |
吉里巴斯
Kiribati |
English
(official)
I-Kiribati (Gilbertese) |
北韓
North Korea |
Korean |
大韓民國
South Korea |
Korean
English
|
科索沃
Kosovo |
Albanian
(official)
Serbian
(official)
Bosnian
Turkish
Roma |
科威特
Kuwait |
Arabic
(official)
English |
吉爾吉斯
Kyrgyzstan |
Kyrgyz
(official)
Russian (official) |
寮國
Laos |
Lao
(official)
French
English
various ethnic languages |
拉脫維亞
Latvia |
Latvian
58% (official)
Russian
38%
Lithuanian
other (2000) |
黎巴嫩
Lebanon |
Arabic
(official)
French
English
Armenian |
賴索托
Lesotho |
English
(official)
Sesotho
(official)
Zulu
Xhosa |
賴比瑞亞
Liberia |
English
20% (official)
some 20 ethnic-group
languages |
利比亞
Libya |
Arabic, Italian, and English widely understood in major cities |
列支敦斯登
Liechtenstein |
German
(official)
Alemannic dialect |
立陶宛
Lithuania |
Lithuanian
82% (official)
Russian
8%
Polish 6% (2001) |
盧森堡
Luxembourg |
Luxermbourgish
(national)
French
(administrative)
German (administrative) |
澳門
Macao |
Chinese(official) Portuguese(official) Cantonese |
馬其頓
Macedonia |
Macedonian
67% (official)
Albanian
25% (official)
Turkish
4%
Roma
2%
Serbian 1% (2002) |
馬達加斯加
Madagascar |
Malagasy
(official)
French (official) |
馬拉威
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) |
馬來西亞
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 |
馬爾地夫
Maldives |
Maldivian
Dhivehi (official)
English spoken by most
government officials |
馬利
Mali |
French
(official)
Bambara
80%
numerous African languages |
馬爾他
Malta |
Maltese
(official)
English (official) |
馬紹爾群島
Marshall Islands |
Marshallese
98% (two major dialects from the Malayo-Polynesian family),
English widely spoken as a second language (both official)
Japanese |
茅利塔尼亞
Mauritania |
Hassaniya
Arabic (official)
Pulaar
Soninke
French
Wolof |
Mauritius |
English
less than 1% (official)
Creole
81%
Bojpoori
12%
French 3% (2000) |
墨西哥
Mexico |
Spanish
various
Mayan
Nahuatl
other regional indigenous
languages |
密克羅尼西亞
Micronesia |
English
(official, common)
Chukese
Pohnpeian
Yapase
Kosrean
Ulithian
Woleaian
Nukuoro
Kapingamarangi |
摩爾多瓦
Moldova |
Moldovan
(official; virtually the same as Romanian)
Russian
Gagauz (a Turkish dialect) |
摩納哥
Monaco |
French
(official)
English
Italian
Monégasque |
蒙古
Mongolia |
Mongolian
90%
also Turkic and Russian
(1999) |
蒙特哥羅
Montenegro |
Serbian/Montenegrin (Ijekavian dialect—official) |
摩洛哥
Morocco |
Arabic
(official)
Berber
dialects
French often used for
business, government, and diplomacy |
莫三比克
Mozambique |
Portuguese
9% (official; second language of 27%)
Emakhuwa
26%
Xichangana
11%
Elomwe
8%
Cisena
7%
Echuwabo
6%
other Mozambican languages
32% (1997) |
緬甸
Myanmar |
Burmese
minority languages |
那米比亞
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 |
諾魯
Nauru |
Nauruan
(official)
English |
尼泊爾
Nepal |
Nepali
48% (official)
Maithali
12%
Bhojpuri
7%
Tharu
6%
Tamang
5%
others.
English spoken by many in
government and business (2001) |
荷蘭
Netherlands |
Dutch
(official)
Frisian (official) |
紐西蘭
New Zealand |
English
(official)
Maori (official) |
尼加拉瓜
Nicaragua |
Spanish
98% (official)
English and indigenous
languages on Atlantic coast (1995) |
尼日
Niger |
French
(official)
Hausa
Djerma |
奈及利亞
Nigeria |
English
(official)
Hausa
Yoruba
Ibo
Fulani
and more than 200 others |
挪威
Norway |
Bokmål
Norwegian (official)
Nynorsk
Norwegian (official)
small Sami- and
Finnish-speaking minorities (Sami is official in six
municipalities) |
阿曼
Oman |
Arabic
(official)
English
Baluchi
Urdu
Indian dialects |
巴基斯坦
Pakistan |
Urdu
8% (official)
English
(official)
Punjabi
48%
Sindhi
12%
Siraiki
(a Punjabi variant) 10%
Pashtu
8%
Balochi
3%
Hindko
2%
Brahui
1%
Burushaski
others 8% |
帛琉
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) |
巴勒斯坦
Palestinian State
(proposed) |
Arabic
Hebrew
English |
巴拿馬
Panama |
Spanish
(official)
English
14%
many bilingual |
巴布紐幾內亞
Papua New Guinea |
Tok
Pisin (Melanesian Pidgin, the lingua franca)
Hiri
Motu (in Papua region)
English
1%–2%
715 indigenous languages |
巴拉圭
Paraguay |
Spanish
(official)
Guaraní (official) |
秘魯
Peru |
Spanish
(official)
Quéchua
(official)
Aymara
many minor Amazonian
languages |
菲律賓
Philippines |
Filipino
(based on Tagalog) (official)
English
(both official)
eight major dialects:
Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray,
Pampango, and Pangasinense |
波蘭
Poland |
Polish 98% (2002) |
葡萄牙
Portugal |
Portuguese
(official)
Mirandese (official, but
locally used) |
卡達
Qatar |
Arabic
(official)
English a common second
language |
羅馬尼亞
Romania |
Romanian
(official)
Hungarian
German |
俄羅斯
Russia |
Russian
others |
盧安達
Rwanda |
Kinyarwanda
(official)
French
(official)
English
(official)
Kiswahili in commercial
centers |
聖克里斯多福與尼維斯
St. Kitts and Nevis |
English |
聖露西亞
St. Lucia |
English
(official)
French patois |
聖文森及格瑞那丁
St. Vincent and the
Grenadines |
English French patois |
薩摩亞
Samoa |
Samoan, English |
聖馬利諾
San Marino |
Italian |
聖多美和普林西比
São Tomé and Príncipe |
Portuguese (official) |
沙烏地阿拉伯
Saudi Arabia |
Arabic |
塞內加爾
Senegal |
French
(official)
Wolof
Pulaar
Jola
Mandinka |
賽爾維亞
Serbia |
Serbian
(official)
Romanian,Hungarian,Slovak,Croatian
(official in Vojvodina)
Albanian (official in
Kosovo) |
塞席爾
Seychelles |
Seselwa
Creole 92% (official)
English
5% (official)
French (official) (2002) |
獅子山
Sierra Leone |
English
(official)
Mende
(southern vernacular)
Temne
(northern vernacular)
Krio (lingua franca) |
新加坡
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) |
斯洛伐克
Slovakia |
Slovak
84% (official)
Hungarian
11%
Roma
2%
Ukrainian 1% (2001) |
斯洛維尼亞
Slovenia |
Slovenian
91%
Serbo-Croatian 5% (2002) |
索羅門群島
Solomon Islands |
English
1%–2% (official)
Melanesian
pidgin (lingua franca)
120 indigenous languages |
索馬利亞
Somalia |
Somali
(official)
Arabic
English
Italian |
南非
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% |
南蘇丹
South Sudan |
English
(official)
Arabic
(includes Juba and Sudanese variants) (official)
regional languages include
Dinka, Nuer, Bari, Zande, Shilluk |
西班牙
Spain |
Castilian
Spanish 74% (official nationwide)
Catalan
17% (official regionally)
Galician
7% (official regionally)
Basque 2% (official
regionally) |
斯里蘭卡
Sri Lanka |
Sinhala
74% (official and national)
Tamil
18% (national)
other 8%; English is
commonly used in government and spoken competently by about 10% |
蘇丹
Sudan |
Arabic
(official)
Nubian
Ta
Bedawie
diverse
dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages
English |
蘇利南
Suriname |
Dutch
(official)
Surinamese
(lingua franca)
English
widely spoken
Hindustani
Javanese |
史瓦濟蘭
Swaziland |
English
(official)
siSwati (official) |
瑞典
Sweden |
Swedish
small Sami- and
Finnish-speaking minorities |
瑞士
Switzerland |
German
64% (official)
French
20% (official)
Italian
7% (official)
Romansch 0.5% (national) |
敘利亞
Syria |
Arabic
(official)
Kurdish
Armenian
Aramaic
Circassian
widely understood
French, English somewhat
understood |
台灣
Taiwan |
Traditional Chinese (official)
Taiwanese
dialect
Hakka
dialect
indigenous
languages
English,Japanese,Korean &
European languages for commercial use |
塔吉克
Tajikistan |
Tajik
(official)
Russian widely used in
government and business |
坦尚尼亞
Tanzania |
Swahili
(official)
English
(official)
Arabic
many local languages |
泰國
Thailand |
Thai
(Siamese)
English
(secondary language of the elite)
ethnic and regional
dialects |
多哥
Togo |
French
(official, commerce)
Ewé,Mina
(south)
Kabyé,
Dagomba (north)
and many dialects |
東加
Tonga |
Tongan
(an Austronesian language)
English |
千里達及托巴哥
Trinidad and Tobago |
English
(official)
Hindi
French
Spanish
Chinese |
突尼西亞
Tunisia |
Arabic
(official, commerce)
French (commerce) |
土耳其
Turkey |
Turkish
(official)
Kurdish
Dimli
Azeri
Kabardian |
土庫曼
Turkmenistan |
Turkmen
72%
Russian
12%
Uzbek
9%
other 7% |
吐瓦魯
Tuvalu |
Tuvaluan
English
Samoan
Kiribati (on the island of
Nui) |
烏干達
Uganda |
English
(official)
Ganda
or Luganda
other
Niger-Congo languages
Nilo-Saharan
languages
Swahili
Arabic |
烏克蘭
Ukraine |
Ukrainian
67%
Russian
24%
Romanian
Polish
Hungarian |
阿拉伯聯合大公國
United Arab Emirates |
Arabic
(official)
Persian
English
Hindi
Urdu |
英國
United Kingdom |
English
Welsh
Scots Gaelic |
美國
United States |
English
82%
Spanish
11% (2000)
Immigrants bring lots of
languages from other countries. |
烏拉圭
Uruguay |
Spanish
Portunol
Brazilero |
烏茲別克
Uzbekistan |
Uzbek
74.3%
Russian
14.2%
Tajik
4.4%
other 7.1% |
萬那杜
Vanuatu |
Bislama
23% (a Melanesian pidgin English) (official)
English
2% (official)
French
1% (3 official)
more than 100 local
languages 73% |
教廷
Vatican City (Holy See) |
Italian
Latin
French
various other languages |
委瑞內拉
Venezuela |
Spanish
(official)
numerous indigenous
dialects |
越南
Vietnam |
Vietnamese
(official)
English
(increasingly favored as a second language)
some
French, Chinese, Khmer
mountain area languages
(Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
西薩哈拉
Western Sahara (proposed
state) |
Hassaniya
Arabic
Moroccan Arabic |
葉門
Yemen |
Arabic |
尚比亞
Zambia |
English
(official)
major vernaculars: Bemba,
Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga; about 70 other
indigenous languages |
辛巴威
Zimbabwe |
English
(official)
Shona
Ndebele
(Sindebele)
numerous minor tribal
dialects |
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