word | | Languages |
| Sanskrit | India | ... Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language (2001 census |
| Sara | Chad | French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), more than 120 different languages and dialects |
| schools | Brazil | Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language); note - less common languages include Spanish (border areas and schools), German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindian languages |
| Scottish form of Gaelic | United Kingdom | English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland) |
| script derived from Arabic | Maldives | Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic), English spoken by most government officials |
| secondary language of the elite | Thailand | Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects |
| see Ethnic groups entry | China | Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry) |
| Sekgalagadi | Botswana | Setswana 78.2%, Kalanga 7.9%, Sekgalagadi 2.8%, English 2.1% (official), other 8.6%, unspecified 0.4% (2001 census ... |
| Sepedi | South Africa | ... IsiXhosa 17.6%, Afrikaans 13.3%, Sepedi 9.4%, English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.9%, Xitsonga 4.4%, other 7.2% (2001 census ... |
Serbian
 map | Austria | German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene, official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census ... |
Serbian
map | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian |
Serbian
map | Croatia | Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) (2001 census) |
Serbian
map | Kosovo | Albanian (official), Serbian (official), Bosnian, Turkish, Roma |
Serbian
map | Macedonia | ... Roma 1.9%, Serbian 1.2%, other 1.8% (2002 census ... |
Serbian
map | Montenegro | Montenegrin (official), Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, Croatian |
Serbian
map | Serbia | Serbian 88.3% (official), Hungarian 3.8%, Bosniak 1.8%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.1%, other 4.1%, unknown 0.9% (2002 census)
note: Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Croatian all official in Vojvodina ... |
Serbo
map | Slovenia | Slovenian 91.1%, Serbo-Croatian 4.5%, other or unspecified 4.4% (2002 census) |
Serbo
map | Switzerland | ... Croatian 1.5%, Albanian 1.3%, Portuguese 1.2%, Spanish 1.1%, English 1%, Romansch (official) 0.5%, other 2.8% (2000 census)
note: German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all national and official languages ... |
Sesotho
map | Lesotho | Sesotho (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa |
Sesotho
map | South Africa | ... 7.2% (2001 census ... |
Setswana
map | Botswana | Setswana 78.2%, Kalanga 7.9%, Sekgalagadi 2.8%, English 2.1% (official), other 8.6%, unspecified 0.4% (2001 census ... |
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