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Saint Lucian Creole (Kwéyòl [kwejɔl]) is a French-based creole language that is widely spoken in Saint Lucia. [2] [3] It is the vernacular language of the country and is spoken alongside the official language of English.
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List. Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1]
Notably, the Creole spoken in the Eastern (windward) part of the island Saint-Barthélemy is spoken exclusively by a white population of European descent, imported into the island from Saint Kitts in 1648. French Guianese Creole is a language spoken in French Guiana, and to a lesser degree in Suriname and Guyana.
A creole language is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages. Unlike a pidgin, a simplified form that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups, a creole language is a complete language, used in a community and acquired by children as their native language.
all languages spoken as the mother tongue in Nepal [67] Netherlands: 1 Dutch: Frisian (in the province Friesland) English (in Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius, Saba) Papiamento (in Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire) Dutch Low Saxon; Dutch Sign Language; Limburgish; Sinte Romani; Yiddish; English New Zealand: 3 English; Māori language; New Zealand Sign ...
Both languages were spoken throughout the island before 1974. After 1974, and the partition of the island, Turkish became the sole official language in the Turkish-Cypriot-controlled north whereas the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus retains both languages as official. English is also widely spoken and understood throughout the island.
The names used for some major European cities differ in different European and sometimes non-European languages. In some countries where there are two or more languages spoken, such as Belgium or Switzerland, dual forms may be used within the city itself, for example on signage.
Scots, spoken in Scotland and Ulster, recognized by some as a language and by others as a dialect of English [9] (not to be confused with Scots-Gaelic of the Celtic language family). The Frisian languages are spoken by about 400,000 (as of 2015) Frisians, [10] [11] who live on the southern coast of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.