word | | Languages |
Somali
 map | Djibouti | French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar |
Somali
map | Somalia | Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English |
| Somaligna | Ethiopia | ... 32.7%, Oromigna 31.6%, Tigrigna 6.1%, Somaligna 6%, Guaragigna 3.5%, Sidamigna 3.5%, Hadiyigna 1.7%, other 14.8%, English (major foreign language taught in schools) (1994 census ... |
| some French | Vietnam | Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
| some radio broadcasts | 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 |
| sometimes called Ndebele | Zimbabwe | English (official), Shona, Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele, sometimes called Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects |
| sometimes called Taki | Suriname | Dutch (official), English (widely spoken), Sranang Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population and is lingua franca among others), Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), Javanese |
| sometimes spelled Kabiye | Togo | French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north) |
| Soninke | Mauritania | Arabic (official), Pulaar, Soninke, French, Hassaniya, Wolof |
| Sonsoralese | Palau | Palauan 64.7% official in all islands except Sonsoral (Sonsoralese and English are official), Tobi (Tobi and English are official), and Angaur (Angaur, Japanese, and English are official), Filipino 13.5%, English 9.4%, Chinese ... |
| southern Sotho | Lesotho | Sesotho (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa |
Spanish
map | Argentina | Spanish (official), Italian, English, German, French |
Spanish
map | Aruba | Papiamento (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect) 66.3%, Spanish 12.6%, English (widely spoken) 7.7%, Dutch (official) 5.8%, other 2.2%, unspecified or unknown 5.3% (2000 census ... |
Spanish
map | Belize | Spanish 46%, Creole 32.9%, Mayan dialects 8.9%, English 3.9% (official), Garifuna 3.4% (Carib), German 3.3%, other 1.4%, unknown 0.2% (2000 census ... |
Spanish
map | Bolivia | Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara (official) |
Spanish
map | Brazil | Portuguese (official), Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amazonian languages |
Spanish
map | Chile | Spanish (official), Mapudungun, German, English |
Spanish
map | Colombia | Spanish |
Spanish
map | Costa Rica | Spanish (official), English |
Spanish
map | Cuba | Spanish |
Spanish
map | Dominican Republic | Spanish |
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