minority - Languages

word	Country	Languages
minority	Denmark	Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) note: English is the predominant second language
minority ethnic groups have their own	Burma	Burmese, minority ethnic groups have their own languages
Mirandese	Portugal	Portuguese (official), Mirandese (official - but locally used)
Miskito	Nicaragua	Spanish 97.5% (official), Miskito 1.7%, other 0.8% (1995 census) note: English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast
mixture of an	Pitcairn Islands	English (official), Pitkern (mixture of an 18th century English dialect and a Tahitian dialect)
modified form of Malay	Indonesia	Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay), English, Dutch, local dialects (the most widely spoken of which is Javanese)
Moldovan	Moldova	Moldovan (official, virtually the same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect)
Mon	Vietnam	Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Monegasque	Monaco	French (official), English, Italian, Monegasque
Monokutuba	Congo, Republic of the	French (official), Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread)
Montenegrin	Montenegro	Montenegrin (official), Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, Croatian
more than	Chad	French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), more than 120 different languages and dialects
more than	Vanuatu	local languages (more than 100) 72.6%, pidgin (known as Bislama or Bichelama) 23.1%, English 1.9%, French 1.4%, other 0.3%, unspecified 0.7% (1999 Census ...
Moroccan Arabic	Western Sahara	Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic
most common vernaculars in south	Benin	French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
most government ministries	Pakistan	... official) 8%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%, English (official; lingua franca of Pakistani elite and most government ministries), Burushaski and other 8
most people	American Samoa	... English 2.9%, Tongan 2.4%, other Pacific islander 2.1%, other 2% note: most people are bilingual (2000 census
most widely spoken	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
most widely spoken language	Brazil	Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language); note - less common languages include Spanish (border areas and schools), German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindian languages
most widely used of the Niger	Uganda	English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
Motu spoken in Papua region	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)
mountain area	Vietnam	Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Mozambican	Mozambique	... languages 32%, other foreign languages 0.3%, unspecified 1.3% (1997 census ...
much bilingualism	Afghanistan	... Persian or Dari (official) 50%, Pashto (official) 35%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11%, 30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai) 4%, much bilingualism

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