| Country | Languages |
| Afghanistan | Afghan 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 |
| Akrotiri | English, Greek |
| Albania | Albanian (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects |
| Algeria | Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects |
| American Samoa | Samoan 90.6% (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), English 2.9%, Tongan 2.4%, other Pacific islander 2.1%, other 2%
note: most people are bilingual (2000 census) |
| Andorra | Catalan (official), French, Castilian, Portuguese |
| Angola | Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages |
| Anguilla | English (official) |
| Antarctica | void |
| Antigua and Barbuda | English (official), local dialects |
| Arctic Ocean | void |
| Argentina | Spanish (official), Italian, English, German, French |
| Armenia | Armenian 97.7%, Yezidi 1%, Russian 0.9%, other 0.4% (2001 census) |
| Aruba | Papiamento (a Spanish-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) |
| Ashmore and Cartier Islands | void |
| Atlantic Ocean | void |
| Australia | English 79.1%, Chinese 2.1%, Italian 1.9%, other 11.1%, unspecified 5.8% (2001 Census) |
| Austria | German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene, official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census) |
| Azerbaijan | Azerbaijani (Azeri) 90.3%, Lezgi 2.2%, Russian 1.8%, Armenian 1.5%, other 3.3%, unspecified 1% (1999 census) |
| Bahamas, The | English (official), Creole (among Haitian immigrants) |
| Bahrain | Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu |
| Bangladesh | Bangla (official, also known as Bengali), English |
| Barbados | English |
| Belarus | Belarusian, Russian, other |
| Belgium | Dutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%, legally bilingual (Dutch and French) |
| Belize | Spanish 46%, Creole 32.9%, Mayan dialects 8.9%, English 3.9% (official), Garifuna 3.4% (Carib), German 3.3%, other 1.4%, unknown 0.2% (2000 census) |
| Benin | French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north) |
| Bermuda | English (official), Portuguese |
| Bhutan | Dzongkha (official), Bhotes speak various Tibetan dialects, Nepalese speak various Nepalese dialects |
| Bolivia | Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara (official) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian |
| Botswana | Setswana 78.2%, Kalanga 7.9%, Sekgalagadi 2.8%, English 2.1% (official), other 8.6%, unspecified 0.4% (2001 census) |
| Bouvet Island | void |
| 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 |
| British Indian Ocean Territory | void |
| British Virgin Islands | English (official) |
| Brunei | Malay (official), English, Chinese |
| Bulgaria | Bulgarian 84.5%, Turkish 9.6%, Roma 4.1%, other and unspecified 1.8% (2001 census) |
| Burkina Faso | French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population |
| Burma | Burmese, minority ethnic groups have their own languages |
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