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Countries Using Easiest LanguagesCountries Using Easiest Languages are listed below. So when you travel, you will find Easiest Foreign Languages helpful in the following countries: The Easiest Foreign Languages for English speakers are official languages in the country or countries listed under each Easiest Language below. --------- DANISH: Denmark Faroe Islands (with Faroese) Greenland (with Kalaallisut) -------- DUTCH: Belgium (sole official language in Flanders, with French in Brussels) The Netherlands (sole official language in every province except Friesland, where West Frisian is co-official) Aruba (with Papiamento) Netherlands Antilles (with English and Papiamento) Suriname -------- ENGLISH: Antigua and Barbuda Australia (considered de facto as no official language is mentioned in the Australian Constitution, with many other Aboriginal languages) Bahamas Barbados Belize Botswana (but the national language is Tswana) Canada (with French) Cameroon (with French) Dominica Fiji (with Bau Fijian and Hindustani) Hong Kong (with Chinese) The Gambia Ghana Grenada (with French creole) Guernsey (with French) Guyana India (with 22 other official languages) Israel (with Hebrew and Arabic) Republic of Ireland (with Irish) Jamaica Jersey (with French) Kenya (with Swahili) Kiribati Lesotho (with Sotho) Liberia Madagascar (with Malagasy and French) Malawi (with Chichewa) Malta (with Maltese) Isle of Man (with Manx Gaelic) Marshall Islands (with Marshallese) Mauritius Micronesia Namibia (Afrikaans, German, and Oshiwambo are regional spoken) Nauru (with Nauruan) Netherlands Antilles (with Dutch and Papiamento) New Zealand (with Māori and New Zealand Sign Language) Nigeria Pakistan (with Urdu as the national language) Philippines (with Filipino) Palau (with Palauan and Japanese) Papua New Guinea (with Tok Pisin and Motu) Rwanda (with French and Kinyarwanda) St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia (with French creole) St. Vincent and the Grenadines (with French creole) Samoa (with Samoan) Seychelles (with Creole, French) Sierra Leone Singapore (with Chinese, Malay, Tamil) Solomon Islands South Africa (with Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu) Sudan (with Arabic) Swaziland (with Swati) Tanzania (with Swahili) Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tuvalu Uganda (with Swahili) United Kingdom (along with Irish, Ulster Scots, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish and Welsh) United States (de facto) Vanuatu (with Bislama and French) Zambia Zimbabwe -------- FRENCH: Belgium (with Dutch and German) Benin Burkina Faso Burundi (with Kirundi) Cameroon (with English) Canada (with English) Central African Republic Chad (with Arabic) Comoros (with Arabic and Comorian) Côte d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti (with Arabic) Equatorial Guinea (with Spanish and Portuguese) France French Guyana French Polynesia French Loyalty Islands French Southern and Antarctic Lands Scattered islands in the Indian Ocean Guadeloupe Martinique Mayotte New Caledonia Réunion Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre et Miquelon Wallis and Futuna (Adelie land) (Clipperton Island) Gabon Guernsey (with English) Guinea Haiti (with Haitian Creole) part of Italy: the Aosta Valley with Italian Jersey (with English, ruled by the U.K.) Luxembourg (with German and Luxembourgish) Madagascar (with Malagasy and English) Mali Monaco Niger Republic of the Congo Rwanda (with English and Kinyarwanda) Senegal Seychelles (with English) Saint Lucia (French Patois with English) Switzerland (with German, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch) Geneva Vaud Jura Neuchâtel Fribourg (with German) Bern (with German) Valais (with German) Togo Vanuatu (with Bislama and English) -------- GERMAN: Austria Belgium (with Dutch and French) Germany Liechtenstein Luxembourg (with French and Luxembourgish) Italy Province of Bolzano-Bozen (together with Italian and Ladin) Switzerland (with French, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch) 17 of the 26 cantons (monolingually German) Graubünden (with Italian and Romansh) Bern (with French) Fribourg (with French) Valais (with French) -------- ITALIAN: Italy Switzerland (with German and French) Ticino Graubünden (with German and Rhaeto-Romansh) San Marino Vatican City (with Latin and French) part of Croatia: Istria county (with Croatian) part of Slovenia: Izola, Koper and Piran municipalities (with Slovene) --------- NORWEGIAN: Norway (two official written forms - Bokmål and Nynorsk) --------- PORTUGUESE: Angola Brazil Cape Verde East Timor (with Tetum) Equatorial Guinea (with Spanish and French) Guinea-Bissau part of the People's Republic of China: Macau (with Chinese) Mozambique Portugal São Tomé and Príncipe -------- ROMANIAN: Romania Moldova (official language called Moldovan, although identical to Romanian according to the law of Moldova) part of Serbia: Vojvodina (with Croatian, Hungarian, Serbian, Slovak and Ruthenian) -------- SPANISH: Argentina Bolivia (with Aymara and Quechua) Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Equatorial Guinea (with French and Portuguese) Guatemala Honduras Mexico (de facto) Nicaragua Panama Paraguay (with Guaraní) Peru (with Aymara and Quechua) Spain (Aranese, Basque, Catalan, and Galician are co-official in some regions) Uruguay Venezuela --------- SWEDISH: Sweden (de jure since July 1, 2009) Finland (with Finnish) Åland (monolingually Swedish) (an autonomous province under Finnish sovereignty) --------
NUMBER OF COUNTRIES WITH THE SAME OFFICIAL LANGUAGE This is a ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are official [either de iure or de facto official]. 55 countries: ENGLISH : largest: India, United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom 32 countries: FRENCH : largest: France, Canada, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar 22 countries: SPANISH : largest: Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Argentina 10 countries: PORTUGUESE : largest: Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique, Angola 7 countries: GERMAN : largest: Germany, Austria, Switzerland 4 countries: ITALIAN 3 countries: DUTCH 2 countries: SWEDISH 2 countries: ROMANIAN 1 country: DANISH 1 country: NORWEGIAN ========= IN EUROPE 8 countries: French 8 countries: German 4 countries: Italian 3 countries: English 2 countries: Dutch 2 countries: Swedish 2 countries: Romanian 1 country: Spanish 1 country: Portuguese 1 country: Danish 1 country: Norwegian ------- IN THE AMERICAS 20 countries: Spanish 14 countries: English 4 countries: Dutch 4 countries: French 1 country: Portuguese -------- IN AFRICA 21 countries: French 19 countries: English 6 countries: Portuguese 1 country: sevewral languages -------- IN ASIA 4 countries: English 1 country: several languages -------- IN OCEANIA 12 countries: English 1 country: French 1 country: several languages -------- Note: The information on this web page was adapted from Wikipedia: List of Official Languages. --------
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