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Top 20 countries by number of languages Share | Language statistics & facts | Top 30 languages | 20 countries with the most languages Language families: By speakers - By languages | Languages in the United States  While most countries have one or a handful of official or nationally recognized languages, there are typically groups of people residing in each country whose first language is something other than the nation's lingua franca. The numbers of such groups differ from country to country, and the size of these minority language "groups" can range from a single individual to millions of speakers. Top 20 Languages by Number of Languages Spoken Data source: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th ed. (2005) & CIA World Fact Book. Country # of languages % of world languages Official or national language(s) Total population (July 2005 est.) 1. Papua New Guinea 820 11.86% Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin, English 5,545,268 2. Indonesia 742 10.73% Indonesian 241,973,879 3. Nigeria 516 7.47% Edo, Efik, Adamawa Fulfulde, Hausa, Idoma, Igbo, Central Kanuri, Yoruba, English 128,771,988 4. India 427 6.18% Lingua franca: English & Hindi Official languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei, Nepali, Oriya, Eastern Panjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu. 1,080,264,388 5. USA 311 4.50% English Regional: Hawaiian (in Hawaii), Spanish (in New Mexico) 295,734,134 6. Mexico 297 4.30% Spanish 106,202,903 7. Cameroon 280 4.05% English, French 16,380,005 8. Australia 275 3.98% English 20,090,437 9. China 241 3.49% Mandarin Chinese Regional: Daur, Kalmyk-Oirat, Lu, Peripheral Mongolian, Central Tibetan, Uyghur, Xibe, Northern Zhuang 1,306,313,812 10. Democratic Republic of Congo 216 3.12% Koongo, Lingala, Luba-Kasai, Congo Swahili, French |
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