| Country | Languages |
| Laos | Lao (official), French, English, various ethnic languages |
| Latvia | Latvian (official) 58.2%, Russian 37.5%, Lithuanian and other 4.3% (2000 census) |
| Lebanon | Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian |
| Lesotho | Sesotho (official) (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa |
| Liberia | English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages few of which can be written or used in correspondence |
| Libya | Arabic (official), Italian, English
note: all are widely understood in the major cities |
| Liechtenstein | German (official), Alemannic dialect |
| Lithuania | Lithuanian (official) 82%, Russian 8%, Polish 5.6%, other and unspecified 4.4% (2001 census) |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourgish (national language), German (administrative language), French (administrative language) |
| Macau | Cantonese 85.7%, Hokkien 4%, Mandarin 3.2%, other Chinese dialects 2.7%, English 1.5%, Tagalog 1.3%, other 1.6%
note: Chinese and Portuguese are the official language (2001 census) |
| Macedonia | Macedonian (official) 66.5%, Albanian (official) 25.1%, Turkish 3.5%, Roma 1.9%, Serbian 1.2%, other 1.8% (2002 census) |
| Madagascar | French (official), Malagasy (official), English |
| Malawi | Chichewa (official) 57.2%, Chinyanja 12.8%, Chiyao 10.1%, Chitumbuka 9.5%, Chisena 2.7%, Chilomwe 2.4%, Chitonga 1.7%, other 3.6% (1998 census) |
| 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 |
| Maldives | Dhivehi (official, dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic), English (spoken by most government officials) |
| Mali | French (official), Bambara 80%, numerous African languages |
| Malta | Maltese (official) 90.2%, English (official) 6%, multilingual 3%, other 0.8% (2005 census) |
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