english in the world
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LIST OF ENGLISH -SPEAKING COUNTRIESTRANSCRIPT
ENGLISH IN THE WORLD
CENTRAL AMERICA
Country or Territory Capital Languages
Anguilla The Valley English
Antigua and Barbuda Saint John’s English
The Bahamas Nassau English
Barbados Bridgetown English
Belize Belmopan English
Bermuda Hamilton English
Cayman Islands George Town English
Dominica Roseau English
Grenada St. Georges English and French patois
Jamaica Kingston English, Creole
Montserrat London English
Puerto Rico San Juan Spanish, English
Saint Lucia Castries English
St. Kitts and Nevis Basseterre English
St. Vincent and Grenadines Kingstown English
Trinidad and Tobago Port of SpainEnglish, Hindi, French,Spanish, Chinese
Turks and Caicos Islands Cockburn Town English
British Virgin Islands British Road Town English
Virgin IslandsUS Charlotte Amalie
English, Spanish and Creole
SOUTH AMERICA
Country Capital Languages
Guyana Georgetown
English, Amerindiandialects, Creole,Hindi, Urdu
Falkland Islands Stanley English
NORTH AMERICA
United States
Washington,DC English
History of North America
Canada Ottawa English, French
EUROPE
The Republic of Ireland
(Eire)
The Irish shamrock
Dublin English, Gaelic
Malta Valletta EnglishMaltese
United KingdomEngland
The English rose
London English
Scotland
The Scottish thistle
EdinburghEnglish, Scottish Gaelic
Wales
The Welsh leek and daffodil
Cardiff English, Welsh
Northern Ireland(Ulster)
The Irish shamrock
Belfast English, Gaelic
Gibraltar GibraltarEnglish,Spanish, Italian, Russian
Portuguese
AFRICA
Country Capital Language
Botswana Gaborone English, Setswana
Cameroon YaondeEnglish, French + 24 major African language groups
The Gambia BanjulEnglish, Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars
Ghana Accra English, African languages (including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga)
Kenya Nairobi English , Kiswahili , numerous indigenous languages
Lesotho Maseru English, Sesotho (southern Sotho),, Zulu, Xhosa
Liberia Monrovia
English, some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence
Malawi Lilongwe English,Chichewa
Mauritius Port LouisEnglish, Creole, French, Hindi, Urdu, Hakka, Bojpoori
Namibia WindhoekEnglish, Afrikaans, German ,indigenouslanguages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama
Nigeria Abuja English, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani
Rwanda Kigali Kinyarwanda, French, English
St Helena Jamestown English
Seychelles Victoria English, French, Creole
Sierra Leone FreetownEnglish, Mende, Temne , Krio (English-based Creole)
South Africa Pretoria
11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
SwazilandMbabane, Lobamba is the royal and legislative capital English, Siswati
Tanzania Dar es Salaam Kiswahili or Swahili, English
Uganda Kampala
English, Ganda or Luganda ,other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
ZambiaLusaka
English, major vernaculars - Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages
Zimbabwe Harare English, Shona, Sindebele
Madagascar Antananarivo English(since 2007), French and Malagasy
ASIA
Country Capital Language
Bahrain Manama Arabic, (also English, Persian(Farsi), Urdu)
Bangladesh Dhaka Bengali(Bangla), English
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Malay, English, and Chinese
India New Delhi
English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali(Bangla), Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam,Konkani, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu, and others (Indo-European):Hindustani, Bihari, Rajasthani, Bhili, (Dravidian):Gondi, Kurukh, Oraon, Kui, Tulu, (Munda):Santali, Ho, Korku, Savara(Sora), Bodo, Garo, Meithei, Lushei, and Khasi, and Burushaski
Jordan Amman Arabic, (also English among upper-class)
Kuwait Kuwait Arabic (also English)
Lebanon Beirut Arabic, French, Armenian, Assyrian, (also English)
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malay, Chinese, Tamil, and many tribal languages, (also English)
Maldives Male Dhivehi(Maldivian), (also English in Government)
Myanmar (Burma)
Rangoon Burmese(Birmano), Karen, Shan, Mon, Chin, Kachin(Chingpaw), Palaung, Wa(Kawa), (also English)
Pakistan Islamabad Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtu, Siraiki, Baluchi, Brahui, Hindko, Burushaski, English, and others
Philippines Manila Pilipino(Tagalog), English, Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Samaran, Bikol, Pampangan, Pangasinan, Igorot, Maranao
Singapore Singapore Chinese, Malay, Tamil and English
Sri Lanka
Colombo (Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte- legislative capital)
Sinhala(Sinhalese), Tamil, (also English in Gov't)
Thailand Bangkok Thai, Chinese, and Malay, Mon, Khmer, Karen, Miao(Meo), (also English used among the elite)
United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi Arabic, Persian(Farsi), Indian languages, and English
AUSTRALASIA
Country Capital Language
Australia Canberra English
Fiji Suva English, Fijian, Hindi
Kiribati Tarawa English, I-Kiribati
Marshall Islands Majuro English, Marshallese
Micronesia Palikir English
Naurugovernment offices in Yaren District
Nauruan, English
New Zealand Wellington English, Maori
Palau Koror English, Palauan
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby English, Pidgin English, Motu, local dialects
Solomon Islands Honiara English, Pidgin English, Melenesian and Polynesian languages
Tonga Nuku'alofa English, Tongan
Tuvalu Funafuti English, Tuvaluan
Vanuatu Port-Vila English and French, Bislama, local dialects
Western Samoa Apia Samoan, English