Below is an outline guide to what languages you can hear around the countries of the world. There is a wonderful myriad of regional and local languages which are not mentioned on the list - including Fang spoken in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, Berber (Morocco), Mon-Kher (Thailand) and Bhojpuri (Nepal). Distribution of language also reflects the history of each region of the world.
| Europe | |
| Albania | Albanian, Greek |
| Andorra | Catalan, Spanish, French |
| Austria | German |
| Azores | Portuguese |
| Belgium | Dutch (Flemish), French, German |
| Boznia-Herzegovina | Serbo-Croat |
| Bulgaria | Bulgarian |
| Croatia | Croatian |
| Cyprus | Greek, Turkish, English |
| Czech Republic | Czech |
| Denmark | Danish |
| Estonia | Estonian |
| Faeroes | Danish, Faeroese |
| Finland | Finnish, Swedish |
| FYROM (Macedonia) | Macedonian |
| France | French, Arabic |
| Georgia | Georgian, Russian |
| Germany | German |
| Gibraltar | English, Spanish |
| Greece | Greek |
| Greenland | Greenlandic, Danish |
| Guernsey | English, French |
| Hungary | Hungarian |
| Iceland | Icelandic |
| Italy | Italian |
| Jersey | English, French |
| Latvia | Latvian, Russian |
| Liechtenstein | German |
| Lithuania | Lithuanian, Russian |
| Luxembourg | Letzeburgish, German, French |
| Madeira | Portuguese |
| Malta | Maltese, English |
| Moldova | Romanian, Russian, Ukranian, Gagauz |
| Monaco | French, Monegasque, Italian |
| Netherlands | Dutch |
| Norway | Norwegian |
| Poland | Polish |
| Portugal | Portuguese |
| Republic of Ireland | English, Irish |
| Romania | Romanian |
| Russia | Russian |
| San Marino | Italian |
| Slovakia | Slovak |
| Slovenia | Slovene, Serbo-Croat |
| Spain | Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque |
| Sweden | Swedish |
| Switzerland | German, French, Italian |
| Ukraine | Ukranian, Russian |
| United Kingdom | English, Welsh |
| Vatican City | Italian |
| Yugoslavia | Serbo-Croat |
| North & Central America | |
| Antigua & Barbuda | English |
| Argentina | Spanish |
| Aruba | Dutch, Papiamento, English |
| Bahamas | English |
| Barbados | English |
| Belize | English |
| Bermuda | English |
| Canada | English, French |
| Cayman Islands | English |
| Costa Rica | Spanish |
| Cuba | Spanish |
| Dominica | English, French |
| Dominican Republic | Spanish |
| El Salvador | Spanish |
| Grenada | English |
| Guadeloupe | French |
| Guatemala | Spanish |
| Guyana | English |
| Haiti | French |
| Honduras | Spanish |
| Jamaica | English |
| Martinique | French |
| Mexico | Spanish |
| Montserrat | English |
| Netherlands Antilles | Dutch |
| Nicaragua | Spanish |
| Panama | Spanish |
| Puerto Rico | Spanish, English |
| St Kitts-Nevis | English |
| St Lucia | English |
| St Pierre & Miquelon | French |
| St Vincent & Grenadines | English |
| Trinidad & Tobago | English |
| Turks & Caicos Islands | English |
| USA | English |
| Virgin Islands (UK) | English |
| Virgin Islands (USA) | English, Spanish |
| South America | |
| Bolivia | Spanish |
| Brazil | Portuguese |
| Chile | Spanish |
| Columbia | Spanish |
| Ecuador | Spanish |
| Falkland Islands | English |
| French Guiana | French |
| Paraguay | Spanish |
| Peru | Spanish |
| Surinam | Dutch, Surinamese |
| Uruguay | Spanish |
| Venezuela | Spanish |
| Africa | |
| Algeria | Arabic, French |
| Angola | Portuguese |
| Benin | French |
| Botswana | English |
| Burkina | French |
| Burundi | Kirundi (Hutu, Tutsi), French |
| Cameroon | French, English |
| Cape Verde | Portuguese |
| Central African Republic | French |
| Chad | Arabic, French |
| Comoros | Comorian, French, Arabic |
| Congo | French |
| Côte d’Ivoire | French |
| Djibouti | Somali, French, Arabic |
| Egypt | Arabic |
| Equatorial Guinea | Spanish |
| Eritrea | Tigrinya, Arabic, Tigre, English |
| Ethiopia | Amharic, English, French |
| Gabon | French |
| Gambia | English |
| Ghana | English |
| Guinea | French |
| Guinea-Bissau | Portuguese |
| Kenya | Swahili, English |
| Lesotho | Sesotho, English, Zulu |
| Liberia | English |
| Libya | Arabic |
| Madagascar | Malagasy, French |
| Malawi | English, Chichewa |
| Mali | French |
| Mauritania | Arabic, French |
| Mauritius | English, Hindi |
| Mayotte | Mahorian (Swahili), French |
| Morocco | Arabic, French, Spanish |
| Mozambique | Portuguese |
| Namibia | English, Afrikaans, German, Ovambo |
| Niger | French |
| Nigeria | English |
| Réunion | French, French Creole |
| Rwanda | Kinyarwanda, French |
| St Helena | English |
| São Tomé & Príncipe | Portuguese |
| Senegal | French |
| Seychelles | Seychellois, English, French |
| Sierra Leone | English |
| Somalia | Somali, Arabic, English |
| South Africa | Afrikaans, English, 9 official local languages |
| Sudan | Arabic, English |
| Swaziland | Swazi, English |
| Tanzania | Swahili |
| Togo | French, Ewe, Kabye |
| Tunisia | Arabic, French |
| Uganda | English, Swahili |
| Western Sahara | Arabic |
| Zaire | French, Lingala, Swahili |
| Zambia | English |
| Zimbabwe | English |
| Asia | |
| Afghanistan | Dari, Pushtu |
| Armenia | Armemian, Russian |
| Azerbaijan | Azeri, Russian, Lezgian |
| Bahrain | Arabic, English |
| Bangladesh | Bengali, English |
| Belarus | Belorussian, Russian, Ukranian |
| Bhutan | Dzongkha, Nepali, Assamese, English |
| Brunei | Malay, English, Chinese |
| Cambodia | Khmer, Vietnamese |
| China | Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese) |
| Guam | Chamorra, English, Tagalog |
| Hong Kong | Chinese (Cantonese), English |
| India | Hindi, English |
| Indonesian | Indonesian, English, Dutch |
| Iran | Farsi (Persian) |
| Iraq | Arabic, Kurdish, Turkmen |
| Israel | Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, English |
| Japan | Japanese |
| Jordan | Arabic |
| Kazakhstan | Kazakh, Russian, German, Ukranian, Uzbek, Tatar |
| Kuwait | Arabic |
| Kyrgyzstan | Kirghiz, Russian |
| Lao | Lao, French, English |
| Laos | Vientiane |
| Lebanon | Arabic, French, English |
| Macau | Cantonese, Portuguese |
| Malaysia | Malay, English, Chinese |
| Maldives | Divehi (Maldivian) |
| Mongolia | Khalka (Mongolian) |
| Myanmar | Burmese |
| Nepal | Nepali |
| North Korea | Korean |
| North Mariana Islands | English, Chamorro |
| Oman | Arabic |
| Pakistan | Urdu, Punjabi, English |
| Palau | Palauan, English |
| Philippines | English, Filipino (Tagalog) |
| Qatar | Arabic |
| Saudi Arabia | Arabic |
| Singapore | Chinese (Mandarin), English, Malay, Tamil |
| South Korea | Korean |
| Sri Lanka | Sinhalese, Tamil, English |
| Syria | Arabic |
| Taiwan | Chinese (Manderin) |
| Tajikistan | Tajik, Uzbek, Russian |
| Thailand | Thai |
| Turkey | Turkish |
| Turkmenistan | Turkmen, Russian |
| United Arab Emirates | Arabic, English |
| Uzbekistan | Uzbeck, Russian |
| Vietnam | Vietnamese |
| Yemen | Arabic |
| Australasia | |
| American Samao | Samoan, English |
| Australia | English |
| Christmas Island | English |
| Cocos Islands | English |
| Cook Islands | English, Maori |
| Fiji | English, Fijian |
| French Polynesia | French, Polynesian |
| Kiribati | I-Kiribati, English |
| Marshall Islands | Marshallese, English |
| Micronesia | English, Trukese |
| Naura | Nauruan, Gilbertese, English |
| New Caledonia | French |
| New Zealand | English, Maori |
| Niue | English, Polynesian (Niuean) |
| Norfolk Island | English |
| Papua New Guinea | English, Tok Pisin (Pidgin) |
| Pitcairn Island | English |
| Solomon Islands | English, Pidgin |
| Tokelau | English, Tokelauan |
| Tonga | Tongan, English |
| Tuvalu | Tuvaluan, English |
| Vanuata | English, Bislama, French |
| Wallis & Futuna | French, Polynesian |
| Western Samao | Samoan, English |