word | | Languages |
Urdu
 map | India | ... 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, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada |
Urdu
map | Oman | Arabic (official), English, Baluchi, Urdu, Indian dialects |
Urdu
map | Pakistan | ... 48%, Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%, Pashtu 8%, Urdu (official) 8%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 1%, English (official; lingua franca of Pakistani elite and most government ministries), Burushaski and ... |
Urdu
map | United Arab Emirates | Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu |
| used for most government | Nauru | Nauruan (official; a distinct Pacific Island language), English widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes |
| used in commercial centers | Rwanda | Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centers |
| used in correspondence | Liberia | English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence |
| used in courts of law | 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 |
| used in everyday business | Kazakhstan | Kazakh (Qazaq, state language) 64.4%, Russian (official, used in everyday business, designated the "language of interethnic communication") 95% (2001 est.) |
| used in schools | Gibraltar | English (used in schools and for official purposes), Spanish, Italian, Portuguese |
Uzbek
map | Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyz 64.7% (official), Uzbek 13.6%, Russian 12.5% (official), Dungun 1%, other 8.2% (1999 census ... |
Uzbek
map | Turkmenistan | Turkmen 72%, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, other 7% |
Uzbek
map | Uzbekistan | Uzbek 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1% |
| various | Holy See (Vatican City) | Italian, Latin, French, various other languages |
| various ethnic | Laos | Lao (official), French, English, and various ethnic languages |
| various Mayan | Mexico | Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional indigenous languages |
| Vietnamese | Vietnam | Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
| virtually the same as the Romanian language | Moldova | Moldovan (official, virtually the same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect) |
| Vlach | Albania | Albanian (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects |
| Wallisian | Wallis and Futuna | Wallisian 58.9% (indigenous Polynesian language), Futunian 30.1%, French 10.8%, other 0.2% (2003 census ... |
| Waray | Philippines | Filipino (official; based on Tagalog) and English (official); eight major dialects - Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinan |
| Welsh | United Kingdom | English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland) |
| West African words | Cape Verde | Portuguese, Crioulo (a blend of Portuguese and West African words) |
| widely spoken | Aruba | ... Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect) 66.3%, Spanish 12.6%, English (widely spoken) 7.7%, Dutch (official) 5.8%, other 2.2%, unspecified or unknown 5.3% (2000 census ... |
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