English Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English www.exxun.com/Somalia/c_pp.html
English no national system; a mixture of English common law, Italian law, Islamic Shari'a, and Somali customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations www.exxun.com/Somalia/d_gv.html
English IsiZulu 23.8%, 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) www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/c_pp.html
English based on Roman-Dutch law and English common law www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/d_gv.html
English Sinhala (official and national language) 74%, Tamil (national language) 18%, other 8% note: English is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by about 10% of the population www.exxun.com/SriLanka/c_pp.html
English a highly complex mixture of English common law, Roman-Dutch, Kandyan, and Jaffna Tamil law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction www.exxun.com/SriLanka/d_gv.html
English Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English note: program of "Arabization" in process www.exxun.com/Sudan/c_pp.html
English based on English common law and Islamic law; as of 20 January 1991, the now defunct Revolutionary Command Council imposed Islamic law in the northern states; Islamic law applies to all residents ... www.exxun.com/Sudan/d_gv.html
English First explored by the Spaniards in the 16th century and then settled by the English in the mid-17th century, Suriname became a Dutch colony in 1667. With the abolition of slavery ... www.exxun.com/Suriname/a_fg.html
English 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 ... www.exxun.com/Suriname/c_pp.html
English English (official, government business conducted in English), siSwati (official) www.exxun.com/Swaziland/c_pp.html
English ... 63.7%, French (official) 20.4%, Italian (official) 6.5%, Serbo-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 ... www.exxun.com/Switzerland/c_pp.html
English Arabic (official); Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian widely understood; French, English somewhat understood www.exxun.com/Syria/c_pp.html
English Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is ... www.exxun.com/Tanzania/c_pp.html
English based on English common law; judicial review of legislative acts limited to matters of interpretation; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction www.exxun.com/Tanzania/d_gv.html
English Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects www.exxun.com/Thailand/c_pp.html
English Tetum (official), Portuguese (official), Indonesian, English note: there are about 16 indigenous languages; Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak are spoken by significant numbers of people www.exxun.com/EastTimor/c_pp.html
English Tokelauan (a Polynesian language), English www.exxun.com/Tokelau/c_pp.html
English definition: can read and write Tongan and/or English total population: 98.9% male: 98.8% female: 99% (1999 est.) www.exxun.com/Tonga/c_pp.html
English based on English common law www.exxun.com/Tonga/d_gv.html
English English (official), Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), French, Spanish, Chinese www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/c_pp.html
English based on English common law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/d_gv.html
English English (official) www.exxun.com/TurksandCaicosIslands/c_pp.html
English Tuvaluan, English, Samoan, Kiribati (on the island of Nui) www.exxun.com/Tuvalu/c_pp.html
English 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 ... www.exxun.com/Uganda/c_pp.html
English in 1995, the government restored the legal system to one based on English common law and customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations www.exxun.com/Uganda/d_gv.html
English Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu www.exxun.com/UnitedArabEmirates/c_pp.html
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