English
based on English common law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/d_gv.html
English
French (official language), English, Dutch, French Patois, Spanish, Papiamento (dialect of Netherlands Antilles)
www.exxun.com/SaintMartin/c_pp.html
English
English, French patois
www.exxun.com/SaintVincentandtheGrenadines/c_pp.html
English
based on English common law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/SaintVincentandtheGrenadines/d_gv.html
English
Samoan (Polynesian), English
www.exxun.com/Samoa/c_pp.html
English
based on English common law and local customs; judicial review of legislative acts with respect to fundamental rights of the citizen; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/Samoa/d_gv.html
English
Creole 91.8%, English 4.9% (official), other 3.1%, unspecified 0.2% (2002 census)
www.exxun.com/Seychelles/c_pp.html
English
based on English common law, French civil law, and customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/Seychelles/d_gv.html
English
English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/c_pp.html
English
based on English law and customary laws indigenous to local tribes; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/d_gv.html
English
Mandarin 35%, English 23%, Malay 14.1%, Hokkien 11.4%, Cantonese 5.7%, Teochew 4.9%, Tamil 3.2%, other Chinese dialects 1.8%, other 0.9% (2000 census)
www.exxun.com/Singapore/c_pp.html
English
based on English common law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/Singapore/d_gv.html
English
Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English (official; but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population); 120 indigenous languages
www.exxun.com/SolomonIslands/c_pp.html
English
English common law, which is widely disregarded; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/SolomonIslands/d_gv.html
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; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
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
