zakh (Qazaq, state language) 40%, Russian (official,
used in everyday business) 66%

Kenya:
English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous
languages

Kiribati:
English (official), I-Kiribati

Korea, North:
Korean

Korea, South:
Korean, English widely taught in junior high and high
school

Kuwait:
Arabic (official), English widely spoken

Kyrgyzstan:
Kirghiz (Kyrgyz) - official language, Russian - official
language

note: in May 2000, the Kyrgyzstani legislature made Russian an
official language, equal in status to Kirghiz

Laos:
Lao (official), French, English, and various ethnic languages

Latvia:
Latvian or Lettish (official), Lithuanian, Russian, other

Lebanon:
Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian

Lesotho:
Sesotho (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa

Liberia:
English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of
which a few can be written and are used in correspondence

Libya:
Arabic, Italian, English, all are widely understood in the
major cities

Liechtenstein:
German (official), Alemannic dialect

Lithuania:
Lithuanian (official), Polish, Russian

Luxembourg:
Luxembourgish (national language), German
(administrative language), French (administrative language)

Macau:
Portuguese, Chinese (Cantonese)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
Macedonian 70%, Albanian
21%, Turkish 3%, Serbo-Croatian 3%, other 3%

Madagascar:
French (official), Malagasy (official)

Malawi:
English (official), Chichewa (official), other languages
important regionally

Malaysia:
Bahasa Melayu (official), English, Chinese dialects
(Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil,
Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai; note - in addition, in East
Malaysia several indigenous languages are spoken, the largest of
which are Iban and Kadazan

Maldives:
Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala, script derived from
Arabic), English spoken by most government officials

Mali:
French (official), Bambara 80%, numerous African languages

Malta:
Maltese (official), English (official)

Man, Isle of:
English, Manx Gaelic

Marshall Islands:
English (universally spoken and is the official
language), two major Marshallese dialects from the Malayo-Polynesian
family, Japanese

Martinique:
French, Creole patois

Mauritania:
Hasaniya Arabic (official), Pular,