NATIONS OF THE WORLD & THEIR LANGUAGES 2009-2010 COUNTRY AFGHANISTAN ALBANIA ALGERIA AMERICAN SAMOA (territory of U.S.) ANDORRA ANGOLA ANGUILLA (territory of U.K.) ANTIGUA & BARBUDA ARGENTINA ARMENIA ARUBA (territory of the Netherlands) AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN BAHAMAS BAHRAIN BANGLADESH BARBADOS BELARUS BELGIUM BELIZE BENIN BERMUDA (territory of U.K.) BHUTAN BOLIVIA BONAIRE (Netherland Antilles) BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA BOTSWANA BRAZIL BRUNEI DARUSSALAM BULGARIA BURKINA FASO BURMA, Union of Myanmar BURUNDI CAMBODIA CAMEROON CANADA CAPE VERDE CAYMAN ISLANDS (U.K.) CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC MAJOR LANGUAGES & DIALECTS Afghan Persian (Dari); Pastu/Pashtu (Pushto); Turk/Turkic languages (Uzbek & Turkmen); Farsi (Persian); Balochi & Pashai. Albanian, Tosk, & Greek Arabic, French, and Berber Dialects English & Samoan Catalan-Valencian-Baer, French Portuguese, Bantu, Kikongo [Kongo], Kimbundu, Kwanyama, & Umbundu English, Leeward Caribbean Creole English, Leeward Caribbean Creole Spanish Armenian, Assyrian, & Russian Dutch & Papiamento English (235 Other Living Languages) German, Slovenian Azerbaijani English, Bahamas Creole Arabic Bangla (Bengali, Sylhetti) English, Bajan Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian Dutch, French, German, Vlaams English, Creole, Kriol, Spanish, Hindustani French, Fon, & Yoruba Creole(English Based-Pidgin), English Dzongkha Spanish, Quechua, & Aymara Dutch & Papiamento Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Yugoslav English, Tswana Portuguese Malay, English, & Mandarin Bulgarian, Turkish French, Moore, Fulfulde, Jula Burmese French, Rundi Khmer, Cambodian French & English English & French Portuguese, Kabuverdianu English French & Sangho 1 CHAD CHILE CHINA, People’s Republic of CHRISTMAS ISLAND (territory of Australia) COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS (territory of Australia) COLOMBIA COMOROS CONGO CONGO, Democratic Republic of (Formerly Zaire) COOK ISLANDS (territory of New Zealand) COSTA RICA CROATIA CUBA CURACAO (territory of the Netherlands) CYPRUS CZECH REPUBLIC DENMARK DJIBOUTI DOMINICA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ECUADOR EGYPT, Arab Republic of EL SALVADOR ENGLAND EQUATORIAL GUINEA ERITREA ESTONIA ETHIOPIA FIJI FINLAND FRANCE FRENCH GUIANA FRENCH POLYNESIA GABON GAMBIA GEORGIA Arabic & French Spanish Mandarin (Putonghua), Cantonese (Yue, Toishan, Taishan), Chuang, Hakka dialects, Taiwanese, Uigur, Wu, Gan,Minjia, Kuoyu Chin, Minbei, Minnan, & other minority languages English English & Malay Spanish French, Arabic, & Comoran French, Lingala, Munukutuba French, Lingala, Luba-Kasai, Congoswahili English Spanish Croatian, Italian Spanish Dutch & Papiamento Greek & Turkish Czech & Slovak Danish, German French & Arabic English, Leeward Caribbean Creole, Lesser Antillean Creole French Spanish Spanish Arabic Spanish English Spanish, Fang, Bube Afar, Arabic, Hijaz Arabic, Tigringya Estonian Amharic, Tigrigna, English English, Fijian, & Hindi Finnish & Swedish French French French & Tahitian French English, Mandinka, Mandingo, Wolof Georgian, Russian, Armenian, Azeri, Abkhaz, Assyrian 2 GERMANY GHANA GIBRALTAR GREECE GREENLAND GRENADA GUADELOUPE GUAM GUATEMALA GUINEA, Republic of GUINEA-BISSAU, Republic of GUYANA HAITI HONDURAS HUNGARY ICELAND INDIA INDONESIA IRAN IRAQ IRELAND ISRAEL ITALY IVORY COAST (Côte d’Ivoire) JAMAICA JAPAN JORDAN KAZAKHSTAN KENYA KIRIBATI KOREA, North KOREA, South KUWAIT KYRGYZSTAN LAOS LATVIA LEBANON LESOTHO LIBERIA German Asante, Twi, Akuapin Twi, Fante, Ewe, Ga-Adangme, Nzema, Dagbani, Dagarri, Kasem, Frafra, Buli, Kusaal, Sisaala, Gonja, Akan, Agona, krobo, Akan English & Spanish Greek Danish English, Creole French French Chamorro & English Spanish Fuuta, French (each ethnic group has its own language) Portuguese, Crioulo, Mandingo, & African languages English, Hindi, Hindustani, Urdu, & Amerindian dialects French & Haitian-Creole Spanish Hungarian (Magyar) Icelandic Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Guajarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Panjabi (Punjabi), Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, & Urdu Indonesian & Javanese Farsi (Persian) Arabic & Kurdish (official in certain areas),Assyrian Irish Gaelic, English Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, & English Italian, French, German French, Krahn English, Patwa, Patois Japanese Arabic Kazakh English, Swahili, Kiembu English, Kiribati Korean Korean Arabic Kyrgyz (Kirghiz) Lao (Laotian) Latvian Arabic English, South Sotho Bassa, Dan, Klao, Kru, Kisi, Krahn, Creole(English Based-Pidgin) 3 LIBYA LIECHTENSTEIN LITHUANIA LUXEMBOURG MACAU (Administrative Region of China) MACEDONIA, The Former Yugoslav Republic of MADAGASCAR MALAWI MALAYSIA MALDIVES MALI MALTA MARSHALL ISLANDS MARTINIQUE MAURITANIA MAURITIUS MEXICO MICRONESIA MIDWAY ISLANDS (U.S. territory) MOLDOVA MONACO MONGOLIA MONTSERRAT (territory of U.K.) MOROCCO MOZAMBIQUE NAMIBIA NEPAL NETHERLANDS NEW ZEALAND NICARAGUA NIGER NIGERIA NORWAY OMAN PAKISTAN PALAU PANAMA Arabic German Lithuanian Luxembourgish, French, & German Portuguese & Cantonese Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, and Serbo-Croatian French & Malagasy English, Nyanja (Chewa), Tunbuka Malay Dhivehi (Sinhalese/Sinhala dialect) & English French, Bamanankan, Bomu, Bozo, Dogoso, Fulfulde, Hasanya, Mamara, Maninkakan, Sonoy, Syenara, Tamasayt, Xaasongaxanno English & Maltese English & Japanese French & Creole dialects Arabic, Hassaniyya Creole (common), French, English, Hindi, Urdu, Bhojpuri Spanish English , Chuuk, Kosraean, Ponapean, Yapase English Romanian (Moldovian), Gagauz, & Bulgarian French, English, Italian, & Monegasque Mongolian (Khalkha Mongol) English Arabic; French (language of business, government, & post-primary education) Portuguese & indigenous languages/dialects Afrikaans, English, German, Herero, & and indigenous languages Nepali (Pahari) Dutch, West Frisian, Drents, Gronings, Wester Wolds, Hindustani English & Maori Spanish French, Hausa, Djerma, Fula, Arabic Creole(English Based-Pidgin), Hausa, & others Norwegian Arabic Urdu, English, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pushtu, & Balochi English & Palauan Spanish 4 PAPAU NEW GUINEA PARAGUAY PERU PHILLIPINES PITCAIRN ISLANDS (territory of U.K.) POLAND PORTUGAL PUERTO RICO, Commonwealth of (Free Associated State of the U.S.) QATAR ROMANIA RUSSIA RWANDA SABA (territory of the Netherlands) SAINT HELENA (territory of U.K.) SAINT KITTS & NEVIS SAINT LUCIA SAINT MAARTEN (territory of the Netherlands) SAINT MARTIN (territory of France) SAINT PIERRE & MIQUELON (territory of France) SAINT VINCENT & THE GRENADINES SAMOA SAN MARINO SAO TOME & PRINCIPE SAUDI ARABIA SCOTLAND SENEGAL SERBIA & MONTENEGRO, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia SEYCHELLES SIERRA LEONE SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOLOMON ISLANDS SOMALIA SOUTH AFRICA Motu, English, Hiri, Motu, Tokpisin Spanish & Guarani Spanish & Quechua Pilipino (Tagalog), English, Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) English, Pitcairn-Norfolk Polish Portuguese Spanish & English Arabic Romanian Russian French, Rwanda, English Dutch & Papiamento English English, Leeward Caribbean Creole English, French Creole Dutch & Papiamento Papiamento, English, French, & Dutch French English, Windward Caribbean Creole Samoan & English Italian Portuguese, Saotomense, Principense Arabic English French, Wolof, Pulaar, Serer, Diola, Mandinka, Mandingo, Soninke, Halinke, Serer-Sine, Jola-Fogny Serbo-Croatian (Serbian) & Albanian English, French, & Seswela English, Bassa, Fuuta Jalon, Kono, Krio, Kuranko English, Mandarin & other Chinese dialects, Malay & Tamil, Bengali Slovak Slovenian, Hungarian, Italian English, Baelelea Cheke Holo Somali, Arabic, English Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, & Zulu 5 SPAIN SRI LANKA SUDAN SURINAME SWAZILAND SWEDEN SWITZERLAND SYRIA TAIWAN TAJIKISTAN TANZANIA THAILAND TIBET TOGO TONGA TRINIDAD & TOBAGO TUNISIA TURKEY TURKMENISTAN TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS (territory of U.K.) TUVALU (former Ellice Islands) UGANDA UKRAINE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNITED STATES OF AMERICA URUGUAY UZBEKISTAN VANUATU VENEZUELA VIETNAM VIRGIN ISLANDS (territory of U.K.) VIRGIN ISLANDS (St. Thomas, St.Criox, & St. John-territory of U.S.) WALES YEMEN YUGOSLAVIA, Federal Republic of (Serbia & Montenegro) ZAMBIA ZIMBABWE Spanish, Basque, Galician, Gascon, Catalan Sihala (Sinhalese) & English Arabic, Fulfulde, Fur, Hausa Dutch, Hindustani Swati, English Swedish German, French, & Italian Arabic Mandarin & Taiwanese (Fukien, Amoy, Min Swatow) Tajik Swahili, Arabic, English Thai Tibetan French, Ewe, Kabiye English & Tongan English, Hindustani, French Creole Arabic & French Turkish Turkmenistan English Tuvaluan English, Luganda, Swahili, Bantu, & Nilotic languages. Ukrainian Arabic English Spanish Uzbek English, French, and Bislama Spanish Vietnamese, Cambodian English, Creole English, Creole English & Welsh Arabic Serbo-Croatian (Serbian), Albanian, Hungarian, Yugoslav English, Bemba, Tonga, Nyanja, Lozi, Luvale, Ndembu (Lundu), & Kaonde. English, Shona, Sindebele, & tribal dialects NOTE: This list represents the major immigrant groups in New Jersey public schools but is not intended to be a complete listing of every nation and language group in the world. 6