繁體中文
按 2021 年人口普查，5 歲及以上人口的慣用交談語言：廣東話 88.2%，英語 4.6%，其他中國方言 2.8%，普通話 2.3%，其他語言 2.1%。
「法定語文」與「慣用語言」不是同一件事。中文、英文是官方語文；普查中的慣用語言反映家庭及日常交談。書面中文在官方及正式場合使用繁體字。香港政府一站通亦指出，不少企業需要英語、廣東話和普通話的三語能力。
香港的法定語文由《法定語文條例》規範。在學術測評方面，考評局每年公佈香港中學文憑考試（DSE）中英文科的考生等級分佈，國際語言考試（如 IELTS、TOEFL）的香港考生平均分亦由主辦機構每年點算，均屬有明確時點的官方或認可機構數據。這些考試成績按年統計目前未收錄入本站 facts。
少數族裔語言方面，教育局按《種族歧視條例》及相關校本資助計劃，為印傭、南亞裔、非洲裔等學生提供中文作為第二語言（CSL）課程支援；按學校提交的校本數據匯總的少數族裔學生人數、非華語學童的 DSE 參與率等，由教育局及考評局逐年公布，目前亦未在本站獨立點算。
仍未收錄的官方硬數據（全部有明確年度）：① 考評局 DSE 中英文科考生等級分佈（Level 1–5）按年 ② IELTS 及 TOEFL 香港考生平均分及應考人數 ③ 教育局少數族裔 CSL 學生人數按校網分區 ④ 非華語學童 DSE 參與率及成績分佈。刻意留白**：母語教學政策主觀評論、民間語言態度調查、未經考評局/教育局核實的考試數據一律唔引用。
English
In the 2021 Population Census, the usual language of people aged 5 and over was Cantonese 88.2%, English 4.6%, other Chinese dialects 2.8%, Putonghua 2.3%, and other languages 2.1%.
Official language and usual language are different measures. Chinese and English are the official languages; census usual-language figures describe home and daily speech. Formal written Chinese in official settings uses Traditional Chinese characters. GovHK also notes that many businesses look for English, Cantonese and Putonghua together.
Hong Kong’s official languages are regulated by the *Official Languages Ordinance*. In assessment, the HKEAA publishes grade distributions for the Chinese and English papers of the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) each year, and international language tests such as IELTS and TOEFL release average band scores and test-taker counts for Hong Kong candidates annually. All have clear official or recognised-provider timestamps, but their year-by-year tallies are not yet stored as facts on this site.
For minority languages, the Education Bureau provides Chinese-as-a-second-language (CSL) support and school-based grants under the *Race Discrimination Ordinance* and related schemes for Filipino, South Asian, African and other non-Chinese-speaking pupils. Aggregate minority-language student rolls and non-Chinese-speaking DSE participation rates, compiled from returns submitted by schools to EDB and HKEAA, are also released annually but are not yet independently tallied here.
Official hard figures not yet recorded (all carry an explicit year): (1) HKEAA DSE Chinese and English paper grade distributions (Levels 1–5**) year by year; (2) IELTS and TOEFL average band scores and candidate counts for Hong Kong; (3) EDB minority-language CSL student headcounts by school-net district; (4) non-Chinese-speaking pupil DSE participation rates and score distributions. Deliberately left blank: subjective commentary on mother-tongue teaching policy, private language-attitude surveys, and examination data not verified by HKEAA or EDB are deliberately not cited.
