Guernsey:
English, French, Norman-French dialect spoken in country
districts
Guinea:
French (official), each ethnic group has its own language
Guinea-Bissau:
Portuguese (official), Crioulo, African languages
Guyana:
English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Hindi, Urdu
Haiti:
French (official), Creole (official)
Holy See (Vatican City):
Italian, Latin, French, various other
languages
Honduras:
Spanish, Amerindian dialects
Hong Kong:
Chinese (Cantonese), English; both are official
Hungary:
Hungarian 98.2%, other 1.8%
Iceland:
Icelandic
India:
English enjoys associate status but is the most important
language for national, political, and commercial communication,
Hindi the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people,
Bengali (official), Telugu (official), Marathi (official), Tamil
(official), Urdu (official), Gujarati (official), Malayalam
(official), Kannada (official), Oriya (official), Punjabi
(official), Assamese (official), Kashmiri (official), Sindhi
(official), Sanskrit (official), Hindustani (a popular variant of
Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India)
note: 24 languages each spoken by a million or more persons;
numerous other languages and dialects, for the most part mutually
unintelligible
Indonesia:
Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay),
English, Dutch, local dialects, the most widely spoken of which is
Javanese
Iran:
Persian and Persian dialects 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects
26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2%
Iraq:
Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian,
Armenian
Ireland:
English is the language generally used, Irish (Gaelic)
spoken mainly in areas located along the western seaboard
Israel:
Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially for Arab minority,
English most commonly used foreign language
Italy:
Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige
region are predominantly German speaking), French (small
French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene
(Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
Jamaica:
English, Creole
Japan:
Japanese
Jersey:
English (official), French (official), Norman-French dialect
spoken in country districts
Jordan:
Arabic (official), English widely understood among upper and
middle classes
Kazakhstan:
Ka
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