language Nauruan (official; a distinct Pacific Island language), English widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes www.exxun.com/Nauru/c_pp.html
Language English (official), Maori (official), Sign Language (official) www.exxun.com/NewZealand/c_pp.html
language Niuean, a Polynesian language closely related to Tongan and Samoan; English www.exxun.com/Niue/c_pp.html
language AM 381, FM 628, shortwave 4 (each shortwave station operates on multiple frequencies in the language of the target audience) (2007) www.exxun.com/Philippines/f_cm.html
language Arabic (official), English commonly used as a second language www.exxun.com/Qatar/c_pp.html
language French (official language), English, Dutch, French Patois, Spanish, Papiamento (dialect of Netherlands Antilles) www.exxun.com/SaintMartin/c_pp.html
language ... Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95 www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/c_pp.html
language 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
language 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
language 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
language Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects www.exxun.com/Thailand/c_pp.html
language 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) www.exxun.com/Togo/c_pp.html
language Tokelauan (a Polynesian language), English www.exxun.com/Tokelau/c_pp.html
language ... 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 ... www.exxun.com/Uganda/c_pp.html
language English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census) note: Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/c_pp.html
language Multiple waves of colonizers, each speaking a distinct language, migrated to the New Hebrides in the millennia preceding European exploration in the 18th century. This settlement pattern accounts for the complex linguistic ... www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/a_fg.html
language ... 8, VP 8, VRP 4, MPP 3, VGP 3, other and independent 16; note - political party associations are fluid note: the National Council of Chiefs advises on matters of culture and language www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/d_gv.html
language Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) www.exxun.com/Vietnam/c_pp.html
language Wallisian 58.9% (indigenous Polynesian language), Futunian 30.1%, French 10.8%, other 0.2% (2003 census) www.exxun.com/WallisandFutuna/c_pp.html
language ... Spanish 4.88%, English 4.68%, Arabic 3.12%, Hindi 2.74%, Portuguese 2.69%, Bengali 2.59%, Russian 2.2%, Japanese 1.85%, Standard German 1.44%, Wu Chinese 1.17% (2005 est.) note: percents are for "first language" speakers only www.exxun.com/World/c_pp.html
language ... and 70 dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, and other miscellaneous entities; ethnicity, culture, race, religion, and language have divided states into separate political entities as much as history, physical terrain, political fiat ... www.exxun.com/World/i_ti.html
language English (official), Shona, Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele, sometimes called Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/c_pp.html
languages Afghan Persian or Dari (official) 50%, Pashto (official) 35%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11%, 30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai) 4%, much bilingualism www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/c_pp.html
languages 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) www.exxun.com/AmericanSamoa/c_pp.html
languages Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages www.exxun.com/Angola/c_pp.html
|