While the United States of America doesn’t have an official language on a national level, English is accepted as the country’s standard language. Almost 80% of Americans only speak English at home. Other common languages spoken in the USA are Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Arabic, … Read more
Fiji has three official languages: English, Fijian and Fiji Hindi. Fijian is spoken by the majority of indigenous Fijians, who represent around 54% of the population. Rotuman is another indigenous language spoken in Fiji. You will also hear other foreign and immigrant langauges, such as … Read more
Albanian is by far the most common language in Albania, with over 98% of the population able to speak and understand the language. Albanian is the only official language of Albania. There are still several minority languages spoken, including Greek, Aromanian, Romani, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, … Read more
Afghanistan has two nationally recognized official languages: Pashto and Dari Persian. Dari Persian is the most common language, with 78% of people in Afghanistan able to speak the language. Pashto is second, with 35% of Afghans speaking the language. A country ridden with wars and … Read more
Africa is home to a third of the world’s languages, with up to two thousand native languages spoken across the continent. Most of those fall into six language families: Afroasiatic, Austronesian, Indo-European, Khoisan, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan. Beyond these native languages, many African countries also have … Read more
Japanese is the most common language in Japan with around 99% of the population speaking it as their first language. The Rukyuan languages, also part of the same family, are spoken in Okinawa as well as in Kagoshima in the islands of Ryukyu. There are … Read more
The most commonly spoken languages in Antwerp are Dutch, French, and German. The dialect of Dutch used in Antwerp is called Flemish, named after the region of Flanders in Belgium. English and other trade languages are also spoken throughout the city, especially by migrant groups. … Read more
The primary language spoken in Budapest is Hungarian. Around 98% of Hungary’s population speaks the language, which is also the state’s official dialect. There are other foreign languages spoken in Budapest. Budapest is the capital city of Hungary, founded in 1873. The city was created … Read more
The most common language spoken in Argentina is Spanish, with nearly all Argentinians speaking it as a first or second language. Over one million people speak at least one of the fifteen tribal languages of Argentina. Other foreign languages were imported during and after the … Read more
The official language in Croatia is none other than Croatian. 95% of the population speaks the language. Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin all take influence from Croatian. There are also minor languages spoken in Croatia. For example: Serbian, English, Italian, German, Hungarian, Slovak and Romani are all … Read more