word | | Languages |
| English somewhat understood | Syria | Arabic (official); Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian widely understood; French, English somewhat understood |
| English spoken by | Papua New Guinea | Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2%, Motu spoken in Papua region
note: 820 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth of the world's total) |
| English spoken by most government officials | Maldives | Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic), English spoken by most government officials |
| English widely spoken | Kuwait | Arabic (official), English widely spoken |
| English widely taught in junior high | Korea, South | Korean, English widely taught in junior high and high school |
| English widely understood | Nauru | Nauruan (official; a distinct Pacific Island language), English widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes |
| English widely understood among upper | Jordan | Arabic (official), English widely understood among upper and middle classes |
| especially Quechua | Ecuador | Spanish (official), Amerindian languages (especially Quechua) |
Estonian
 map | Estonia | Estonian (official) 67.3%, Russian 29.7%, other 2.3%, unknown 0.7% (2000 census ... |
Estonian
map | European Union | Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish
note: only official languages are listed ... |
| ethnic | Thailand | Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects |
| ethnic group | Liberia | English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence |
| European | United States | English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census)
note: Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii ... |
Ewe
map | Ghana | Asante 14.8%, Ewe 12.7%, Fante 9.9%, Boron (Brong) 4.6%, Dagomba 4.3%, Dangme 4.3%, Dagarte (Dagaba) 3.7%, Akyem 3.4%, Ga 3.4%, Akuapem 2.9%, other 36.1% (includes English (official)) (2000 census ... |
Ewe
map | Togo | French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north) |
Fang
map | Equatorial Guinea | Spanish 67.6% (official), other 32.4% (includes French (official), Fang, Bubi) (1994 census) |
Fang
map | Gabon | French (official), Fang, Myene, Nzebi, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi |
| Fante | Ghana | Asante 14.8%, Ewe 12.7%, Fante 9.9%, Boron (Brong) 4.6%, Dagomba 4.3%, Dangme 4.3%, Dagarte (Dagaba) 3.7%, Akyem 3.4%, Ga 3.4%, Akuapem 2.9%, other 36.1% (includes English (official)) (2000 census ... |
Faroese
map | Denmark | Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
note: English is the predominant second language |
Faroese
map | Faroe Islands | Faroese (derived from Old Norse), Danish |
| Farsi | Bahrain | Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu |
| Fijian | Fiji | English (official), Fijian (official), Hindustani |
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