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Ñ-shaped animation showing flags of some countries and territories where Spanish is spoken. Spanish is the official language (either by law or de facto) in 20 sovereign states (including Equatorial Guinea, where it is official but not a native language), one dependent territory, and one partially recognized state, totaling around 442 million people.
Ecuador defines Spanish as its official language, but Spanish, Quechua and Shuar – as official languages of intercultural relations in the Article 2 of the 2008 Constitution. [145] Falkland Islands, English is the official & dominant language. Spanish is spoken by a minority of the population who comes from Chile and Argentina.
1 Spanish Papua New Guinea: 4 English; Hiri Motu; PNG Sign Language; Tok Pisin; Paraguay: 2 Spanish; Guaraní; Peru: 1 Spanish Quechua, Aymara and another native languages are official wherever they predominate Philippines: 2 Filipino; English; Aklanon (in the Visayas) Bikol (in Luzon) Cebuano (in the Visayas and Mindanao) Chavacano (in ...
The Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands traces its origins back to the Castilian conquest in the 15th century, and, in addition to a resemblance to Western Andalusian speech patterns, it also features strong influence from the Spanish varieties spoken in the Americas, [60] which in turn have also been influenced historically by Canarian ...
Bolivia (with Spanish, Quechua, Guaraní and 33 other languages) [10] Armenian: Armenia [11] Artsakh [12] (independence disputed) Assamese: India (with 21 other regional languages, and with English as a link language) Aymara: Bolivia (with Spanish, Quechua, Guaraní and 33 other languages) [10] Peru (with Spanish and Quechua and other languages ...
[1] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2] [3] Number of living languages and speakers. Country or territory
Most spoken languages, Ethnologue, 2024 [6] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 ...
Country Region Population Status India Asia 1,367,703,110 [1]: Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English.Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India.