2008/11/29 michael west michawest@gmail.com
What languages are spoken in the United Kingdom?
Afrikaans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans and Dutchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language Approximately 400,000 South African-British http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African-Britishand Dutch British http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_people_in_the_United_Kingdom Arabic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic Up to 700,000 British Arab http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Arab - British Iranianhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Iranian, British Iraqi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Iraqi, British Moroccans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Moroccans, British Yemenihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Yemeni Bengali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language (standard Bangla) Over 300,000 British Asian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Asian - Bangladeshis (1st language 5%) and Indians Cantonesehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_language
British Chinese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chinese Various Caribbean languageshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Languages_of_the_Caribbean
British Caribbeanshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_African-Caribbean_community French http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language Approximately over 1 million French Britonshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_people_in_the_United_Kingdom German http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language 545,000 0.9% British Germans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Germans Greekhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language Up to 200,000 fluent or conversational 0.34% Greek Britonshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Briton Hebrew & Yiddish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_languages Up to 100,000 fluent or conversational British Jews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Jews and Israeli British http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_British Gujaratihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarati_Language
British Asians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Asian - Indians Hindi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_language
British Asians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Asian - Indians Hindi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_language
British Asians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Asian - Indians, British Pakistanis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Pakistanis Hungarianhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_language Up to 70,000 0.12% Hungarian Britishhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_British Kannada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_language
British Asians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Asian - Indians Lithuanian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_language
Lithuanians, Baltic Britishhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_people_in_the_United_Kingdom Malayalam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_language
British Asians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Asian - Indians Mandarin Chinese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese Around 200,000 fluent or conversational 0.33% British Chinesehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chinese Mirpuri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potwari_language (Potwarihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potwari ) Up to 700,000 1.15% British Mirpuri Pakistanis. Pashtohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashto Around 200,000 fluent or conversational 0.33% British Pakistanishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Pakistanis Polish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_language 600,000 1.0% Polish immigrants to the UK and Polish Britonshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_British Portuguese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Around 250,000 fluent or conversational 0.4% Portuguese Britonshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Briton, British Brazilians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Brazilian and Cape Verdean British Punjabihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_language 1,263,000 2.1% British Asians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Asian- Indian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India and Pakistanihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan Russian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language 350,000 0.60% Russian British http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_British, Ukrainian Britishhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Britishand other former Soviet Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union countries Somalihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_language 200,000 0.33% British Somalishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Somalis Spanish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language 490,000 0.8% Spanish Britons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Briton, Colombian Britishhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian_Britishand other Latin American Britons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_Briton Sylheti Bengali http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylheti_language 280,000[17]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_Kingdom#cite_note-16 0.47% British Bangladeshishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Bangladeshi(95% of population) Tagalog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagalog_language Up to 150,000 fluent or conversational 0.23% British Filipinoshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Filipino_%28United_Kingdom%29 Tamil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language Up to 150,000 fluent or conversational 0.23% British Asianshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Asian- Indians, Sri Lankans, Singaporeans Telugu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_language
Indian Britons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Britons Turkishhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language Up to 300,000 fluent or conversational 0.5% Turkish Britonshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_British Ukrainian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language Up to 100,000 fluent or conversational 0.15% Ukrainian Britonshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_British Urdu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_language 400,000[18]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_Kingdom#cite_note-17 0.67% Pakistani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_British and Indian Britons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Britons Native languages = indigenous languages. I think that is racist. Include all 100+ spoken languages in the UK. It reminds me of the incredible voting system in Pakistan where non muslims are allowed to select a number of seats for the national assembly (1985-1999 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_of_religious_freedom_in_Pakistan#Elector...)
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You missed English! :-0