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Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2%, Motu spoken in Papua region note: 820 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth of the world's total)
www.exxun.com/PapuaNewGuinea/c_pp.html
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Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara, and a large number of minor Amazonian languages
www.exxun.com/Peru/c_pp.html
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Russian, many minority languages
www.exxun.com/Russia/c_pp.html
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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
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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
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... 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 all national and official languages
www.exxun.com/Switzerland/c_pp.html
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... official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and ...
www.exxun.com/Tanzania/c_pp.html
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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
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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
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Arabic (official and one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce)
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/c_pp.html
languages
... 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
www.exxun.com/Uganda/c_pp.html
languages
local languages (more than 100) 72.6%, pidgin (known as Bislama or Bichelama) 23.1%, English 1.9%, French 1.4%, other 0.3%, unspecified 0.7% (1999 Census)
www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/c_pp.html
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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
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English (official), major vernaculars - Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages
www.exxun.com/Zambia/c_pp.html
Languedoc
... Ardenne, Corse (Corsica), Franche-Comte, Guadeloupe, Guyane (French Guiana), Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy), Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, Lorraine, Martinique, Midi-Pyrenees, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Pays de la Loire, Picardie ...
www.exxun.com/France/d_gv.html
Lanka
Southeastern Asia, group of islands in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Indonesia, about halfway from Australia to Sri Lanka
www.exxun.com/Cocos_Keeling_Islands/b_mp.html
Lanka
... their smugglers; Cuba is also a transit point for the smuggling of migrants from China, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Lebanon, and other nations to the United States and Canada tier rating: Tier 3 ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/i_ti.html
Lanka
... 2, NZ 1, Panama 44, Portugal 22, Russia 1, Singapore 24, Slovakia 2, Spain 5, Sri Lanka 5, St Vincent and the Grenadines 3, Sweden 4, Turkey 1, UK 76, US 5 ...
www.exxun.com/Germany/g_tr.html
Lanka
refugees (country of origin): 77,200 (Tibet/China); 69,609 (Sri Lanka); 9,472 (Afghanistan) IDPs: at least 600,000 (about half are Kashmiri Pandits from Jammu and Kashmir) (2007)
www.exxun.com/India/i_ti.html
Lanka
... oil production comes from the Indian Ocean. Beach sands rich in heavy minerals and offshore placer deposits are actively exploited by bordering countries, particularly India, South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand
www.exxun.com/IndianOcean/e_ec.html
Lanka
Chennai (Madras; India), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Durban (South Africa), Jakarta (Indonesia), Kolkata (Calcutta; India) Melbourne (Australia), Mumbai (Bombay; India), Richards Bay (South Africa)
www.exxun.com/IndianOcean/g_tr.html
Lanka
... also a destination for women from Eastern Europe and Morocco for prostitution; women from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the Philippines migrate willingly to work as domestic servants, but some are subjected ...
www.exxun.com/Jordan/i_ti.html
Lanka
the US does not have an embassy in Maldives; the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka is accredited to Maldives and makes periodic visits
www.exxun.com/Maldives/d_gv.html
Lanka
Singapore 22.7%, UAE 15.5%, India 11.2%, Malaysia 10.8%, Sri Lanka 5.7%, Thailand 5.3% (2007)
www.exxun.com/Maldives/e_ec.html
