danic family spoken by 90% of the population
Burma
Burmese, minority ethnic groups have their own languages
Burundi
Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake
Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)
Cambodia
Khmer (official) 95%, French, English
Cameroon
24 major African language groups, English (official),
French (official)
Canada
English (official) 59.3%, French (official) 23.2%, other 17.5%
Cape Verde
Portuguese, Crioulo (a blend of Portuguese and West
African words)
Cayman Islands
English
Central African Republic
French (official), Sangho (lingua franca
and national language), tribal languages
Chad
French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), more
than 120 different languages and dialects
Chile
Spanish
China
Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing
dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan
(Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages
(see Ethnic groups entry)
Christmas Island
English (official), Chinese, Malay
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Malay (Cocos dialect), English
Colombia
Spanish
Comoros
Arabic (official), French (official), Shikomoro (a blend of
Swahili and Arabic)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
French (official), Lingala (a
lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or
Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba
Congo, Republic of the
French (official), Lingala and Monokutuba
(lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects
(of which Kikongo is the most widespread)
Cook Islands
English (official), Maori
Costa Rica
Spanish (official), English
Cote d'Ivoire
French (official), 60 native dialects with Dioula the
most widely spoken
Croatia
Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9%
(including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) (2001
census)
Cuba
Spanish
Cyprus
Greek, Turkish, English
Czech Republic
Czech
Denmark
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German
(small minority)
note: English is the predominant second language
Dhekelia
English, Greek
Djibouti
French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar
Dominica
English (official), French patois
Dominican Republic
Spanish
East Timor
Tetum (official), Portuguese (official), Indonesian,
English
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