Soninke, Wolof
(official), French
Mauritius:
English (official), Creole, French, Hindi, Urdu, Hakka,
Bojpoori
Mayotte:
Mahorian (a Swahili dialect), French (official language)
spoken by 35% of the population
Mexico:
Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional
indigenous languages
Micronesia, Federated States of:
English (official and common
language), Trukese, Pohnpeian, Yapese, Kosrean
Moldova:
Moldovan (official, virtually the same as the Romanian
language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect)
Monaco:
French (official), English, Italian, Monegasque
Mongolia:
Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian (1999)
Montserrat:
English
Morocco:
Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French often the
language of business, government, and diplomacy
Mozambique:
Portuguese (official), indigenous dialects
Namibia:
English 7% (official), Afrikaans common language of most of
the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%,
indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama
Nauru:
Nauruan (official, a distinct Pacific Island language),
English widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and
commercial purposes
Nepal:
Nepali (official; spoken by 90% of the population), about a
dozen other languages and about 30 major dialects; note - many in
government and business also speak English (1995)
Netherlands:
Dutch
Netherlands Antilles:
Dutch (official), Papiamento (a
Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect) predominates, English
widely spoken, Spanish
New Caledonia:
French (official), 33 Melanesian-Polynesian dialects
New Zealand:
English (official), Maori
Nicaragua:
Spanish (official)
note: English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast
Niger:
French (official), Hausa, Djerma
Nigeria:
English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani
Niue:
Polynesian closely related to Tongan and Samoan, English
Norfolk Island:
English (official), Norfolk a mixture of 18th
century English and ancient Tahitian
Northern Mariana Islands:
English, Chamorro, Carolinian
note: 86% of population speaks a language other than English at home
Norway:
Norwegian (official)
note: small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities
Oman:
Arabic (official), English, Baluchi, Urdu, Indian dialects
Pakistan:
Punjabi 48%, Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%,
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