Many countries, such as Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Finland, India, Ireland, South Africa and Switzerland, which are officially multilingual, may have many monolinguals in their population.
[155] Kazakhstan is taking its huge step into multilingualism by accepting the trilingualism policy and making changes in law.
Former president Nursultan Nazarbaev noted that "The multinationality and multilingualism are one of the values and the main feature of our state.
Lower Sorbian is an official minority language in Brandenburg, Upper Sorbian in Saxony, Sater Frisian in a part of Lower Saxony, and North Frisian varieties and Danish in Schleswig-Holstein.
[204] Germany is home to large numbers of people from other regions, and some of their languages, such as Turkish, Russian, and Polish, are widely used throughout the country.