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SOURCE
CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
DEFINITION
This entry provides a rank ordering of languages starting with the largest and sometimes includes the percent of total population speaking that language.
Language Statistics > Languages > Note (most recent) by country
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| Countries (A to Z) |
Description |
| American Samoa |
most people are bilingual (2000 census) |
| Denmark |
English is the predominant second language |
| East Timor |
there are about 16 indigenous languages; Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak are spoken by significant numbers of people |
| Georgia |
Abkhaz is the official language in Abkhazia |
| Malaysia |
in East Malaysia there are several indigenous languages; most widely spoken are Iban and Kadazan |
| Marshall Islands |
English (official), widely spoken as a second language |
| Nepal |
many in government and business also speak English (2001 est.) |
| Nicaragua |
English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast |
| Papua New Guinea |
820 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth of the world's total) |
| Serbia and Montenegro |
Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Croatian all official in Vojvodina; Albanian official in Kosovo |
| Sri Lanka |
English is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by about 10% of the population |
| Sudan |
program of "Arabization" in process |
| Switzerland |
German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all national languages, but only the first three are official languages |
| Tanzania |
Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources including Arabic and English; it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages |
| Turkey |
there is also a substantial Gagauz population in the European part of Turkey |
| United States |
Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii |
DEFINITION: This entry provides a rank ordering of languages starting with the largest and sometimes includes the percent of total population speaking that language.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
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