Map Supposedly Showing The Second Most Spoken Language In Each European Country

Credit: nazar.dataThe map above supposedly shows the second most commonly spoken language in each European country, and comes from this article from MSN, which in turn lists the source as “Information from national censuses and surveys.”

However, I think the data for some countries is rather suspect.

There is no way that 49% of people in France speak Arabic, or that 23% of people in the UK speak French (at least beyond ordering a pain au chocolat).

Similarly for Ireland, far more people know how to speak a few words in Irish than they do French. And if we’re going by native speakers then Polish has far more speakers than French.

That said many other countries do seem right.

Anyway here’s the data as reported:

1.  Albania (official language: Albanian) – English 40%
2. Andorra (official language: Catalan) – Spanish 48%
3. Armenia (official language: Armenian) – Russian 94%
4. Austria (official language: German) – English 73%
5. Azerbaijan (official language: Azerbaijani) – Russian, English
6. Belarus (official languages: Belarusian, Russian) – English
7. Bosnia and Herzegovina (official languages: Bosnian, Croatia, Serbian) – no documentation
8. Bulgaria (official language: Bulgarian) – Turkish 9%
9. Croatia (official language: Croatian) – English 49%
10. Cyprus (official languages: Greek, Turkish) – English 79%
11. Czech Republic (official language: Czech) – no documentation
12. Denmark (official language: Danish) – English 86%
13. Estonia (official language: Estonian) – Russian 56%
14. Finland (official languages: Finnish, Swedish) – English 70%
15. France (official language: French) – Arabic 49%
16. Germany (official language: German) – English 56%
17. Greece (official language: Greek) – English 51%
18. Hungary (official language: Hungarian) – English 40%
19. Iceland (official language: Icelandic) – English 98%
20. Ireland (official languages: Irish (Gaeilge), English) – French 20%
21. Italy (official language: Italian) – English 35%
22. Kazakhstan (official languages: Kazakh, Russian) – no documentation
23. Latvia (official language: Latvian) – no documentation
24. Liechtenstein (official language: German) – Italian 2%
25. Lithuania (official language: Lithuanian) – Russian 44%
26. Luxembourg (official language: Luxembourgish) – French 86%
27. Malta (official language: Maltese) – English 88%
28. Moldova (official language: Moldovan) – Romanian 75.8%
29. Monaco (official language: French) – Ligurian 17%
30. Montenegro (official language: Serbian) – Montenegrin 77%
31. Netherlands (official language: Dutch) – English 93%
32. North Macedonia (official language: Macedonian) – Albanian 24%
33. Norway (official languages: Norwegian, Sami) – English 88%
34. Poland (official language: Polish) – English 32%
35. Portugal (official language: Portuguese) – English 27%
36. Romania (official language: Romanian) – Hungarian 6%
37. Russia (official language: Russian) – English 80%
38. San Marino (official language: Italian) – Sammarinese 83%
39. Serbia (official language: Serbian) – Hungarian 4%
40. Slovakia (official language: Slovak) – Hungarian 9.4%
41. Slovenia (official language: Slovenian) – Croatian 37%
42. Spain (official language: Spanish) – Catalan 22%
43. Sweden (official language: Swedish) – English 89%
44. Switzerland (official language: German) – French 23%
45. Turkey (official language: Turkish) – English 17%
46. United Kingdom (official language: English) – French 23%
47. Ukraine (official language: Ukrainian) – Russian 34%
48. Vatican City (official language: Italian) – no documentation

Do you think it’s accurate for your country?