Asia List of multilingual countries and regions
a sign-board indicates direction sabarimala, pilgrim station in india. multilingual board written in hindi, malayalam, tamil, kannada, telugu , english (in order, top bottom) there 23 official languages in states , territories of india (including hindi , english, languages official use in whole federation). largest, hindi, spoken natively 40% of population. english used, although in urban parts of country. large number of students high-school education bilingual — speaking own native language, in addition english, varying fluency, possibly hindi well, languages being compulsorily (in select states) taught in schools , colleges. see languages of india. indonesia largest bilingual country in world, approximately 200 million people speak more 1 language. indonesian speak 746 different languages. javanese has users in terms of native speakers (about 80 million). interestingly, sole official (or so-called unity language ) indonesian has 30 million l1 speakers (compared indonesia 260 millio...