What languages are spoken in the United Kingdom?
Afrikaans and Dutch | Approximately 400,000 | South African-British and Dutch British | ||
Arabic | Up to 700,000 | British Arab - British Iranian, British Iraqi, British Moroccans, British Yemeni | ||
Bengali (standard Bangla) | Over 300,000 | British Asian - Bangladeshis (1st language 5%) and Indians | ||
Cantonese | British Chinese | |||
Various Caribbean languages | British Caribbeans | |||
French | Approximately over 1 million | French Britons | ||
German | 545,000 | 0.9% | British Germans | |
Greek | Up to 200,000 fluent or conversational | 0.34% | Greek Britons | |
Hebrew & Yiddish | Up to 100,000 fluent or conversational | British Jews and Israeli British | ||
Gujarati | British Asians - Indians | |||
Hindi | British Asians - Indians | |||
Hindi | British Asians - Indians, British Pakistanis | |||
Hungarian | Up to 70,000 | 0.12% | Hungarian British | |
Kannada | British Asians - Indians | |||
Lithuanian | Lithuanians, Baltic British | |||
Malayalam | British Asians - Indians | |||
Mandarin Chinese | Around 200,000 fluent or conversational | 0.33% | British Chinese | |
Mirpuri (Potwari) | Up to 700,000 | 1.15% | British Mirpuri Pakistanis. | |
Pashto | Around 200,000 fluent or conversational | 0.33% | British Pakistanis | |
Polish | 600,000 | 1.0% | Polish immigrants to the UK and Polish Britons | |
Portuguese | Around 250,000 fluent or conversational | 0.4% | Portuguese Britons, British Brazilians and Cape Verdean British | |
Punjabi | 1,263,000 | 2.1% | British Asians - Indian and Pakistani | |
Russian | 350,000 | 0.60% | Russian British, Ukrainian British and other former Soviet Union countries | |
Somali | 200,000 | 0.33% | British Somalis | |
Spanish | 490,000 | 0.8% | Spanish Britons, Colombian British and other Latin American Britons | |
Sylheti Bengali | 280,000[17] | 0.47% | British Bangladeshis (95% of population) | |
Tagalog | Up to 150,000 fluent or conversational | 0.23% | British Filipinos | |
Tamil | Up to 150,000 fluent or conversational | 0.23% | British Asians - Indians, Sri Lankans, Singaporeans | |
Telugu | Indian Britons | |||
Turkish | Up to 300,000 fluent or conversational | 0.5% | Turkish Britons | |
Ukrainian | Up to 100,000 fluent or conversational | 0.15% | Ukrainian Britons | |
Urdu | 400,000[18] | 0.67% | Pakistani and Indian Britons |