Languages a note (most recent) by country

Countries (A to Z)	Description
American Samoa	most people are bilingual
Denmark	English is the predominant second language
East Timor	there are a total of about 16 indigenous languages, of which Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak are spoken by significant numbers of people
Georgia	Abkhaz is the official language in Abkhazia
Kyrgyzstan	in December 2001, the Kyrgyzstani legislature made Russian an official language, equal in status to Kyrgyz
Nicaragua	English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast
Northern Mariana Islands	86% of population speaks a language other than English at home
Norway	small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities
Panama	many Panamanians bilingual
Papua New Guinea	715 indigenous languages
Solomon Islands	120 indigenous languages
Sri Lanka	English is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by about 10% of the population
Sudan	program of "Arabization" in process
Sweden	small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities
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, and it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages

SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003

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