What languages are spoken in the United Kingdom?
Afrikaans <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans> and Dutch<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language> Approximately 400,000 South African-British <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African-British>and 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 Iranian<http://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 Yemeni<http://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 Cantonese<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_language> British Chinese <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chinese> Various Caribbean languages <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Languages_of_the_Caribbean> British Caribbeans<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_African-Caribbean_community> French <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language> Approximately over 1 million French Britons<http://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> Greek<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language> Up to 200,000 fluent or conversational 0.34% Greek Britons<http://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> Gujarati <http://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> Hungarian<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_language> Up to 70,000 0.12% Hungarian British<http://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 British<http://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 Chinese<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chinese> Mirpuri <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potwari_language> (Potwari<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potwari> ) Up to 700,000 1.15% British Mirpuri Pakistanis. Pashto<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashto> Around 200,000 fluent or conversational 0.33% British Pakistanis<http://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 Britons<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_British> Portuguese <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language> Around 250,000 fluent or conversational 0.4% Portuguese Britons<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Briton>, British Brazilians <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Brazilian> and Cape Verdean British Punjabi <http://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 Pakistani<http://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 British<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_British>and other former Soviet Union <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union> countries Somali<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_language> 200,000 0.33% British Somalis <http://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 British<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian_British>and 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 Bangladeshis<http://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 Filipinos<http://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 Asians<http://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> Turkish<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language> Up to 300,000 fluent or conversational 0.5% Turkish Britons<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_British> Ukrainian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language> Up to 100,000 fluent or conversational 0.15% Ukrainian Britons<http://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#Electoral_process_for_non-Muslims) m
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