word | | Languages |
| government | Morocco | Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French often the language of business, government, and diplomacy |
| government business conducted in English | Swaziland | English (official, government business conducted in English), siSwati (official) |
Greek
 map | Akrotiri | English, Greek |
Greek
map | Albania | Albanian (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects |
Greek
map | Cyprus | Greek, Turkish, English |
Greek
map | Dhekelia | English, Greek |
Greek
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 ... |
Greek
map | Greece | Greek 99% (official), other 1% (includes English and French) |
Greenlandic
map | Denmark | Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
note: English is the predominant second language |
Greenlandic
map | Greenland | Greenlandic (East Inuit), Danish, English |
| Guaragigna | Ethiopia | ... Tigrigna 6.1%, Somaligna 6%, Guaragigna 3.5%, Sidamigna 3.5%, Hadiyigna 1.7%, other 14.8%, English (major foreign language taught in schools) (1994 census ... |
| Guarani | Paraguay | Spanish (official), Guarani (official) |
| Gujarati | India | ... but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 21 other official languages: Assamese ... |
| Gypsy | Romania | Romanian 91% (official), Hungarian 6.7%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.1%, other 1.2% |
| Gypsy | Serbia | ... 3.8%, Bosniak 1.8%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.1%, other 4.1%, unknown 0.9% (2002 census)
note: Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Croatian all official in Vojvodina ... |
| Hadiyigna | Ethiopia | ... other 14.8%, English (major foreign language taught in schools) (1994 census ... |
| Hainan | 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 |
| Hakka | 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 |
Hakka dialects
map | China | Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry) |
Hakka dialects
map | Taiwan | Mandarin Chinese (official), Taiwanese (Min), Hakka dialects |
| Hamitic | Sudan | Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
note: program of "Arabization" in process |
| Hassaniya | Mauritania | Arabic (official), Pulaar, Soninke, French, Hassaniya, Wolof |
| Hassaniya Arabic | Western Sahara | Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic |
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