Official Languages

Official status is a legal designation. It requires a constitution, language act or charter, which this platform has not yet loaded — speaker numbers cannot establish it.

Languages spoken here

Bengali (secondary) · Egyptian Arabic (secondary) · Hindi (secondary) · Indonesian (secondary) · Japanese (secondary) · Javanese (secondary) · Javanese (Aksara Jawa) (secondary) · Kannada (secondary) · Korean (secondary) · Malay (secondary) · Malayalam (secondary) · Sindhi (secondary) · Tamil (secondary) · Thai (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Singapore

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Han Chinese, Mandarin	1368000	Chinese, Mandarin	Buddhism
Han Chinese, Min Nan	1185000	Chinese, Min Nan	Buddhism
Han Chinese, Teochew	601000	Chinese, Min Nan	Buddhism
Malay	549000	Malay	Islam
Han Chinese, Cantonese	437000	Chinese, Yue	Buddhism
Han Chinese, Hakka	255000	Chinese, Hakka	Non-Religious
Han Chinese, Hainanese	184000	Hainanese	Non-Religious
Filipino, Tagalog	158000	Tagalog	Christianity
Indonesian	120000	Indonesian	Islam
Tamil (Hindu traditions)	110000	Tamil	Hinduism
Javanese	93000	Javanese	Islam
South Asian, Bengali-speaking	78000	Bengali	Islam
Indian, English-speaking	77000	English	Hinduism
Han Chinese, Min Dong	71000	Chinese, Min Dong	Non-Religious
British	56000	English	Christianity
Eurasian	55000	English	Christianity
Thai	47000	Thai	Buddhism
Japanese	38000	Japanese	Buddhism
Bawean, Madurese	29000	Madura	Islam
Han Chinese, Putian	28000	Chinese, Pu-Xian	Non-Religious
Malayali	28000	Malayalam	Hinduism
Punjabi	25000	Punjabi, Eastern	Other / Small
Kristang	25000	Malaccan Portuguese Creole	Christianity
Kanarese	22000	Kannada	Hinduism
Straits Chinese, Baba Creole	20000	Malay, Baba	Ethnic Religions
Burmese	20000	Burmese	Buddhism
Han Chinese, Min Bei	18000	Chinese, Min Bei	Non-Religious
Malay, Riau	17000	Malay	Islam
Sinhalese, general	17000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Malay-Indonesian, English-speaking	16000	English	Islam
Hui, Dungan	16000	Chinese, Mandarin	Islam
Hindi	14000	Hindi	Hinduism
Buginese	11000	Bugis	Islam
Korean	11000	Korean	Non-Religious
Palembang	11000	Musi	Islam
Arab, Egyptian general	11000	Arabic, Egyptian	Islam
Americans, U.S.	8300	English	Christianity
Deaf	6000	Singapore Sign Language	Unknown
Sindhi	4300	Sindhi	Hinduism
Orang Seletar	1200	Orang Seletar	Ethnic Religions

Languages

33 languages recorded here.

Arabic, Egyptian

Bengali

Bugis

Burmese

Chinese, Hakka

Chinese, Mandarin

Chinese, Min Bei

Chinese, Min Dong

Chinese, Min Nan

Chinese, Pu-Xian

Chinese, Yue

English

Hainanese

Hindi

Indonesian

Japanese

Javanese

Kannada

Korean

Madura

Malaccan Portuguese Creole

Malay

Malay, Baba

Malayalam

Musi

Orang Seletar

Punjabi, Eastern

Sindhi

Singapore Sign Language

Sinhala

Tagalog

Tamil

Thai

All catalogue fields

149 fields recorded

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