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America

Belize was called the British Honduras until 1981. Spanish, Maya and Garifuna are the languages besides English, which are spoken by 65% of the population (123,000 people).

Bermuda is a dependent territory of the UK, English is native here for 95% (56,000 people).

Canada: English and French are both official and native here. 60% of the poulation speaks English, that is about 16,000,000 people.

Caribbean islands

Falkland Islands is a dependent territory of the UK, English is the native language.

Guyana used to be a Crown Colony (until 1966). English is native here for 75% of the population (567,000 people), and other Amerindian dialects, plus Hindi, Urdu, Chinese and Portuguese are spoken as well.

United States of America: Besides English that is the native language of about 88% (221 million people), Spanish is the one that is spoken by a sizeable minority.

ASIA

Hong Kong became independent from Britain in 1997. English and Chinese are the official languages.

India: Besides English and Hindi, which is the primary tongue of 30%, there are several official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit. Most of them are mutually unintelligible, that is why English has an important role in national, political and commercial communication.

Pakistan: English is the official language, the lingua franca of Pakistani elite and most government ministries. Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi and Pashtu are official as well, and Balochi and other languages are spoken.

Philippines gained independence from the US in 1946. English and Philippino are official, but Spanish and Visajan are spoken as well.

Singapore gained final independence from Britain in 1965. English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil all official languages, and Malay is national.

Australia and oceania

Australia, the British "prison island": English is the native language of about 90% (15 million people), but other native languages of the aborigines are spoken as well.

Cook Islands are in free association with New Zealand, English is official and Maori is spoken as well.

 Fiji gained independence from Britain in 1970, but English is not the only official language. Fijian is official as well, and Hindustani and Chinese are spoken.

 Kiribati was a Crown Colony until 1979. Besides English, the native Gilbertese language is official as well.

 Nauru gained independence from Britain in 1968. English is official and widely understood, but used for government and commercial purposes only and is the first language of only 7% of the population (600 people). The other official language is Nauruian.

New Zealand became independent in 1907. Besides English (first language of 93% - 3 million people), Maori is the language of the aborigines.

Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia in 1975. English is official, but spoken only by 1-2%, however, Pidgin English is widespread (66%). Motu and 715 (!) indigenous languages are spoken as well.

Solomon Islands were part of Britain until 1978. English is the official language but used only by 1-2%, and Melanesian pidgin is the lingua franca amongst 120 indigenous languages.

Tuvalu was a colony until 1978. Besides English, Tuvaluan is official.

Vanuatu gained independence from Britain in 1980. English, French and Bislama (Pidgin) are all official, and Melanesian languages are spoken as well.

Western Samoa belonged to New Zealand until 1962. English and Samoan (Polynesian) are both official languages.

EUROPE

Channel Islands (Guernsey and Jersey) are British crown dependencies, and besides English, French is official, and Norman French is spoken as well.

Gibraltar is a dependent territory of the UK, English and Spanish are the official languages, but Italian, Portuguese, what is more, Russian are spoken as well. English is spoken by the 35% of the population: 10,800 people.

Irish Republic: Irish Gaelic is the other official language besides English (spoken by 3,334,000 people).

Isle of Man is a British crown dependency. Besides the native English, Manx Gaelic is spoken.

Malta has been independent from Britain since 1964. There are two official languages: English and Maltese, and Italian is spoken as well. English is the native language of 70,600 people, 20% of the poulation.

Orkney is a part of the UK.

Shetland is a part of the UK.

United Kingdom: Besides the native English language (spoken by 56,236,000 people, 98% of the population), Welsh is spoken by 26% of the population in Wales, and Scottish Gaelic by about 60,000 in Scotland.

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