Sr 

Country

No of languages

% of world
languages

Their 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

60,085,804

11.

Brazil

200

2.89%

Portuguese

186,112,794

12.

Philippines

180

2.60%

Filipino, English

87,857,473

13.

Malaysia

147

2.13%

Malay

23,953,136

14.

Canada

145

2.10%

English, French

32,805,041

15.

Sudan

134

1.94%

Standard Arabic

40,187,486

16.

Chad

1.22

1.92%

Standard Arabic, French

9,826,419

17.

Russia

129

1.87%

Russian

143,420,309

18.

Tanzania

128

1.85%

Swahili, English

36,766,356

19.

Nepal

125

1.81%

Nepali

27,676,547

20.

Vanuatu

115

1.66%

Bislama, English

205,754