Canada is officially bilingual under the Official Languages Act and the Constitution

of Canada that require the federal government to deliver services in both official
languages. As well, minority language rights are guaranteed where numbers
warrant. 59.3% of the population speak English as their first language while 22.9%
are native speakers of French. The remaining population belong to some of
Canada's many immigrant populations or to the indigenous population. See
Bilingualism in Canada
The Canadian province of New Brunswick, with a large Acadian population (33%
French-speaking).
The Canadian province of Quebec, (7.9% English-speaking)[citation needed] Note:
Although there is a relatively sizable English-speaking population in Quebec, French
is the only official language. At the same time, most government services are
available in English and French.
There are also significant French language minorities in the provinces of Manitoba,
Nova Scotia, Ontario and Prince Edward Island. Though these provinces are not
officially bilingual they do provide a number of services in French.
Nunavut is a Canadian territory with a population that is 85% Inuit. Its official
languages are the Inuit dialects of Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun as well as English and
French.
In many of Canada's First Nations' communities in the more isolated regions,
aboriginal languages are retained. English and French are accepted in the
community at the community elders' discretion.
India.

A sign-board that indicates the direction to Sabarimala, a pilgrim station in India.

The multilingual board is written in Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and
English (in that order, from top to bottom)
There are 23 official languages in India (Including Hindi and English). The largest,
Hindi, is spoken natively by 40% of the population. English is also widely used,
although mainly in urban parts of the country. An Indian with a high-school
education would generally be bilingual speaking their own native language, in
addition to English, with varying fluency, possibly Hindi as well, the languages being
compulsorily (in select states) taught in most schools and colleges. see Languages
of India.

Switzerland has four national languages; German, French, Italian and Romansh.[15]
The cantons Valais, Fribourg and Bern are bilingual (French and German), while
canton Graubnden is trilingual (German, Romansh and Italian).
In Israel, Hebrew and Arabic both have official status. The Jewish population largely
speaks Hebrew, though many Jewish immigrants to Israel (especially from Europe)
have a different mother tongue, such as Arabic, Amharic, Yiddish, Ladino, Russian,
Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian, English, or French and many Jewish immigrants from
Latin America speak Spanish and Portuguese. The Arab population of Israel speaks
Arabic, which is also the language of instruction in Arab Israeli schools. Functionally,
almost all Arabs in Israel also speak Hebrew. English is widely spoken and

understood as a second language by both Jews and Arabs. Officially, road signs
must be in Hebrew, Arabic, and a romanized Hebrew transliteration.

ex-Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact countries: many people fluently speak Russian,
especially in Slavic countries within the area of the former USSR (typically in Belarus
and Ukraine), along with Moldova, which has a Slavic minority. However, few Polish,
Slovak or Czech people speak Russian, despite huge expenditures in the past.
Republics of Russia. The language of titular nation is also official in those republics
(though usage of a titular language is often not widespread).
Chuvash, Bashkir and Mari residents of Tatarstan also speak three languages: their
own Chuvash language, Russian and Tatar.
Among the Maris, widespread trilingualism has been reported (Mari-Russian-Tatar;
Mari-Chuvash-Russian; Mari-Udmurt-Russian; even four languages used
intermittently: Mari-Tatar-Udmurt-Russian in Mari-Turek areas)[14]
In the 1980s, almost all the Karelians were bilingual, speaking both Karelian and
Russian (being Karelian-Finnish bilingual in Finland). Trilingualism Karelian-FinnishRussian also occurred in the Karelian ASSR.[14]
Abkhazia. According to Georgian law, Georgian and Abkhazian are official
languages; according to Abkhazian law Abkhazian and Russian. The elder
generation of Abkhazis spoke Georgian, Russian and Abkhazi.