There very few monolingual countries. Please add to this list:
Iceland is considered unilingual as the vast majority of the population speaks Icelandic as their primary language.
The word itself means one tongue (language). If you only speak English, you are unilingual. If you speak two, you are bilingual and if you speak several, you are multilingual.
monolingual or unilingual
No.Languages:German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene,official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census)
American 2nd Answer: That answer is a great answer! But I think you probably are looking for the word, "Unilingual", which literally means, "One tongue".
France, Belgium, and HungaryAnswer:The previous answer is wrong. There are no unilingual countries in Europe. Every country has speakers of more than 1 language.
Iceland is considered unilingual as the vast majority of the population speaks Icelandic as their primary language.
It shouldn't.
The word itself means one tongue (language). If you only speak English, you are unilingual. If you speak two, you are bilingual and if you speak several, you are multilingual.
Probably Saskatchewan or Manitoba.
Austria
No in the UK English, Welsh and Gaelic are all used.
monolingual or unilingual
I believe that word is, "unilingual", which literally means, "One tongue".
No, there was a Serbocrotian language (spoken in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro), Slovenian language, and Macedonian language.
Strictly speaking, just about every country in Europe has minorities that do not use the national language much (or at all) in everyday life. Traditionally, these European countries have been seen as close to being unilingual: * The Netherlands * Norway * Sweden * Denmark (despite a small German speaking minority in South Slesvig) * Iceland
No.Languages:German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene,official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census)