word | | Languages |
| Bambara | Mali | French (official), Bambara 80%, numerous African languages |
| Bandjabi | Gabon | French (official), Fang, Myene, Nzebi, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi |
| Bangla | Bangladesh | Bangla (official, also known as Bengali), English |
| Bantu | Angola | Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages |
| Bapounou/Eschira | Gabon | French (official), Fang, Myene, Nzebi, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi |
| based Creole | Sierra Leone | English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) |
| based on Tagalog | Philippines | Filipino (official; based on Tagalog) and English (official); eight major dialects - Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinan |
| based on the Beijing | 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) |
Basque
 map | France | French 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish)
overseas departments: French, Creole patois |
Basque
map | Spain | Castilian Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2%, are official regionally |
| Belarusian | Belarus | Belarusian, Russian, other |
| belonging to Sudanic family spoken by | Burkina Faso | French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population |
| Bemba | Zambia | English (official), major vernaculars - Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages |
Bengali
map | India | Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%
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Bengali
map | World | ... 1.44%, French 1.2% (2005 est.)
note: percents are for "first language" speakers only ... |
Berber dialects
map | Algeria | Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects |
Berber dialects
map | Morocco | Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French often the language of business, government, and diplomacy |
Bhojpuri
map | Mauritius | Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3% (2000 census ... |
Bhojpuri
map | Nepal | Nepali 47.8%, Maithali 12.1%, Bhojpuri 7.4%, Tharu (Dagaura/Rana) 5.8%, Tamang 5.1%, Newar 3.6%, Magar 3.3%, Awadhi 2.4%, other 10%, unspecified 2.5% (2001 census)
note: many in government and ... |
| Bhotes speak various Tibetan dialects | Bhutan | Dzongkha (official), Bhotes speak various Tibetan dialects, Nepalese speak various Nepalese dialects |
| Bicol | Philippines | Filipino (official; based on Tagalog) and English (official); eight major dialects - Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinan |
| bilingual | American Samoa | ... English 2.9%, Tongan 2.4%, other Pacific islander 2.1%, other 2%
note: most people are bilingual (2000 census |
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