word | | Languages |
Filipino
 map | Philippines | Filipino (official; based on Tagalog) and English (official); eight major dialects - Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinan |
Finnish
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 ... |
Finnish
map | Finland | Finnish 91.5% (official), Swedish 5.5% (official), other 3% (small Sami- and Russian-speaking minorities) (2006 ... |
Finnish
map | Norway | Bokmal Norwegian (official), Nynorsk Norwegian (official), small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities; note - Sami is official in six municipalities |
Finnish
map | Sweden | Swedish, small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities |
| Flemish | France | French 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish)
overseas departments: French, Creole patois |
| Fon | Benin | French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north) |
| Foochow | Malaysia | Bahasa Malaysia (official), English, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai
note: in East Malaysia there are several indigenous languages; most widely spoken are Iban and Kadazan |
| for "first language" speakers only | World | ... |
| foreign | Bolivia | ... 2.4%, other 1.2% (2001 census ... |
| foreign | Mozambique | ... unspecified 1.3% (1997 census ... |
French
map | Algeria | Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects |
French
map | Andorra | Catalan (official), French, Castilian, Portuguese |
French
map | Argentina | Spanish (official), Italian, English, German, French |
French
map | Belgium | Dutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%, legally bilingual (Dutch and French) |
French
map | Benin | French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north) |
French
map | Burkina Faso | French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population |
French
map | Burundi | Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area) |
French
map | Cambodia | Khmer (official) 95%, French, English |
French
map | Cameroon | 24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official) |
French
map | Canada | English (official) 59.3%, French (official) 23.2%, other 17.5% |
French
map | Central African Republic | French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), tribal languages |
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