Country Info

Singapore Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 5,647,484 people (96% of Singapore) that can read or write at least one language.

6 Writing Systems used in Singapore

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
5,476,704
people

Chinese (Simplified)

zh-hans
language code
4,534,476
people

Malay (Latin)

ms-latn
language code
824,450
people

Tamil (Tamil)

ta-taml
language code
123,667
people

Malayalam (Malayalam)

ml-mlym
language code
10,011
people

Punjabi (Gurmukhi)

pa-guru
language code
9,422
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR