Southwest Asia & Middle East



The following chart lists all languages spoken by more than 1% of the population of each country. Percentages are of native speakers, not the total number of people who can speak the language. (Remember: people can have more than one native language. That's why the percentages often add up to over 100%).

Country Official Language(s) Native Name Other Languages Spoken
Afghanistan Pashto
Farsi (Dari)
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Armenia Armenian Haykakan
Azerbaijan Azerbaijani Azerbaycan
Bahrain Arabic Al-Bahren
Cyprus Greek
Turkish
Kípros
Kibris
Georgia Georgian Sakharthvelo
India Hindi (20%)
English (0%)
Bharat
India
Marathi (7%), Bengali (7%), Telugu (7%), Bihari (including all dialects) (6%), Tamil (6%), Urdu (dialect of Hindi) (5%), Gujarati (5%), Kannada (4%), Malayalam (4%), Oriya (3%), Panjabi (3%), Awadhi (2%), Assamese (2%), Chhattisgarhi (1%), Rajastani (1%), Haryani (dialect of Hindi) (1%), Deccan (1%)
Iran Farsi Iran
Iraq Arabic Al-'Iraq
Israel Hebrew Yisra'el
Jordan Arabic Al-'Urdun
Kuwait Arabic Al-Kuweyt
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz Kyrgyz
Lebanon Arabic Lubnan
Oman Arabic 'Oman
Pakistan Urdu (dialect of Hindi) Pakistan
Qatar Arabic Qatar
Saudi Arabia Arabic Al-Mamlakat Al-'Arabiyat Al-Sa'udiyat
Syria Arabic Suriya
Tajikistan Tajik Tojikiston
Turkey Turkish (90%) Tükiye Kurmanji (dialect of Kurdish) (6%)
Turkmenistan Turkmen Turkmeniston
United Arab Emirates Arabic Al-Amarat Al-'Arabiyat Al-Motahedat
Uzbekistan Uzbek Uzbekiston
Yemen Arabic Al-Yaman