Most Spoken Language in These Countries

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The data set spans fifty nations where a single tongue claims the majority, though the share varies wildly from total dominance to just over half. Argentina runs on Spanish for every person, while Australia leans on English at ninety-six percent. Austria speaks German at ninety-seven, and Bangladesh is Bangla at ninety-eight. Belgium flips the script with English holding fifty-nine percent, whereas Brazil stays Portuguese at ninety-one. Canada's English share drops to fifty-five, but Chile returns to Spanish at ninety-eight. Colombia follows with Spanish at ninety-three, China anchors itself in Chinese at ninety, and Czechia is Czech at ninety-eight. Denmark keeps Danish at ninety-three, Algeria relies on Algerian Arabic at eighty-three, and France is French at ninety-seven. Germany sits at ninety-one for German, Greece hits ninety-nine with Greek, and Hungary reaches one hundred percent with Hungarian. India shows Hindi at only forty-one, Indonesia has Indonesian at sixty-four, and Iran uses Persian at seventy-five. Iraq lists Arabic at sixty-eight, Ireland jumps to English at ninety-eight, and Israel is Hebrew at one hundred. Italy is Italian at ninety-five, Japan matches that with Japanese at ninety-five, Malaysia speaks Malay at seventy-five, and Mexico is Spanish at eighty-three. Morocco uses Moroccan Arabic at eighty-seven, Nepal has Nepali at forty-four, and the Netherlands is fully Dutch at one hundred. New Zealand is English at ninety-eight, Nigeria at English fifty-three, Norway is Norwegian at one hundred, Pakistan speaks Urdu at ninety-five, and the Philippines uses English at sixty-four. Poland is Polish at ninety-six, Portugal Portuguese at ninety-six, Russia Russian at ninety-nine, Saudi Arabia Arabic at one hundred, Singapore English at eighty, South Africa English at thirty-one, South Korea Korean at one hundred, Spain Spanish at ninety-nine, Sweden Swedish at ninety-five, Switzerland German at seventy-six, Tanzania Swahili at ninety, Thailand Thai at eighty, Türkiye Turkish at ninety-three, United Kingdom English at ninety-eight, and the United States English at ninety-six. Source: Unicode CLDR 49 - Territory Language Information