Cyprus
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Arabic, Cypriot Spoken
[acy] Kyrenia district: north shore; Limassol district: south shore; Lefkosia district: Kormakiti, Nicosia city, and Peristonem; several Maronite mountain villages. Mainly urban communities. Users: 9,760 (2013 UNSD). Status: 7 (Shifting). Alternate Names: Cypriot Maronite Arabic, Kormakiti, Maronite. Autonym: Sanna. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Armenian, Western
[hyw] Major cities. Users: 1,410 in Cyprus (2013 UNSD). Status: 7 (Shifting). Classification: Indo-European, Armenian.
Bulgarian
[bul] Users: 18,400 in Cyprus (2013 UNSD). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, South, Eastern.
Chinese
[zho] A macrolanguage. 1,220 in Cyprus (2013 UNSD). Non-indigenous.
English
[eng] Users: 902,800 in Cyprus, all users. L1 users: 34,800 in Cyprus (2013 UNSD). L2 users: 868,000 (European Commission 2012). Status: 4 (Educational). Alternate Names: Ingilizce. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English.
French
[fra] Scattered. Users: 79,140 in Cyprus, all users. L1 users: 1,140 in Cyprus (2013 UNSD). L2 users: 78,000 (Beck et al 2018). Status: 4 (Educational). Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French.
German, Standard
[deu] Users: 23,090 in Cyprus, all users. L1 users: 1,290 in Cyprus (2013 UNSD). L2 users: 21,800 (2018 Eurostat). Status: 5* (Dispersed). Alternate Names: Deutsch. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Middle German, East Middle German.
Greek
[ell] Larnaka, Lefkosia, Limassol, and Pafos districts (southern Cyprus). Users: 1,168,500 in Cyprus, all users. L1 users: 1,110,000 in Cyprus (European Commission 2012). L2 users: 58,500 (European Commission 2012). Status: 1 (National). Statutory national language (1960, Constitution, Article 3(1)). Classification: Indo-European, Greek, Attic.
Polish
[pol] Users: 2,810 in Cyprus (2013 UNSD). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, West, Lechitic.
Romanian
[ron] Users: 24,300 in Cyprus (2013 UNSD). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Eastern.
Russian
[rus] Users: 50,000 in Cyprus (2019 IMB). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, East.
Sinhala
[sin] Users: 7,160 in Cyprus (2013 UNSD). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Outer Languages, Southern, Sinhalese-Maldivian.
Spanish
[spa] Users: 17,120 in Cyprus, all users. L1 users: 520 in Cyprus (2013 UNSD). L2 users: 16,600 (2018). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian.
Tagalog
[tgl] Users: 9,110 in Cyprus (2013 UNSD). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Central Philippine, Central Philippine, Tagalog.
Turkish
[tur] Widespread in Northern Cyprus. Users: 300,000 in Cyprus (2016). 300,000 speakers in Northern Cyprus. 1,410 Turkish speakers in the Republic of Cyprus (2013 UNSD). Status: 2 (Provincial). De facto provincial language in Northern Cyprus. Alternate Names: Osmanli, Türkçe. Classification: Turkic, Southern, Turkish.