word | | Languages |
Russian
 map | Lithuania | Lithuanian (official) 82%, Russian 8%, Polish 5.6%, other and unspecified 4.4% (2001 census) |
Russian
map | Moldova | Moldovan (official, virtually the same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect) |
Russian
map | Mongolia | Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian (1999) |
Russian
map | Russia | Russian, many minority languages |
Russian
map | Svalbard | Norwegian, Russian |
Russian
map | Turkmenistan | Turkmen 72%, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, other 7% |
Russian
map | Ukraine | Ukrainian (official) 67%, Russian 24%, other 9% (includes small Romanian-, Polish-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities) |
Russian
map | Uzbekistan | Uzbek 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1% |
Russian
map | World | ... br>note: percents are for "first language" speakers only ... |
| Russian widely used in government | Tajikistan | Tajik (official), Russian widely used in government and business |
| Saharan | Uganda | English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic |
Sami
map | Finland | ... official), Swedish 5.5% (official), other 3% (small Sami- and Russian-speaking minorities) (2006 |
Sami
map | Norway | Bokmal Norwegian (official), Nynorsk Norwegian (official), small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities; note - Sami is official in six municipalities |
Sami
map | Sweden | Swedish, small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities |
| Sami is | Norway | Bokmal Norwegian (official), Nynorsk Norwegian (official), small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities; note - Sami is official in six municipalities |
Samoan
map | American Samoa | Samoan 90.6% (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), English 2.9%, Tongan 2.4%, other Pacific islander 2.1%, other 2%
note: most people are bilingual (2000 census ... |
Samoan
map | Niue | Niuean, a Polynesian language closely related to Tongan and Samoan; English |
Samoan
map | Samoa | Samoan (Polynesian), English |
Samoan
map | Tuvalu | Tuvaluan, English, Samoan, Kiribati (on the island of Nui) |
| Sangho | Central African Republic | French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), tribal languages |
| Sanscrit | India | ... language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 21 other official languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada |
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