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Languages by Countries

Country	Official and national Languages	Other spoken Languages
Anguilla	English
Antigua and Barbuda	English	local dialects, Creole English
Argentina	Spanish	English, Italian, German, French
Aruba	Dutch	Papiamento (Creole with Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English roots), English (widely spoken), Spanish
Bahamas	English	Creole (among Haitian immigrants)
Barbados	English
Belize	English	Spanish, Mayan, Garifuna (Carib), Creole
Bolivia	Spanish, Quechua, Aymara
Brazil	Portuguese	Spanish, English, French, American Indian languages
Canada	English 59%, French 23%; (Canada's Territory Nunavut wants that Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun become official)	53 native Inuit and American-Indian languages (18%).
Cayman Islands	English
Chile	Spanish
Colombia	Spanish	American Indian languages
Costa Rica	Spanish	English
Cuba	Spanish
Dominica	English	French patois
Dominican Republic	Spanish
Ecuador	Spanish	Quechua and other Amerindian languages.
El Salvador	Spanish	Nahua (among some Amerindians)
French Guiana	French
Grenada	English	French patois
Guadeloupe	French 99%	Creole patois
Guatemala	Spanish 60%, Amerindian languages 40%	(23 officially recognized Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, and Xinca)
Guyana	English	Amerindian dialects, Creole, Hindi, Urdu
Haiti	French, Creole
Honduras	Spanish	Amerindian dialects
Jamaica	English	most Jamaicans speak an English-based dialect which is known as Patois.
Martinique	French	Creole patois
Mexico	Spanish	various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional indigenous languages.
Nicaragua	Spanish	English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast.
Panama	Spanish	English 14%
Paraguay	Spanish, Guarani
Peru	Spanish, Quechua	Aymara, and a large number of minor Amazonian languages.
Puerto Rico	Spanish, English
Saint Kitts and Nevis	English
Saint Lucia	English	French patois
Suriname	Dutch	Sranan Tongo, a Creole language contains elements from English, Portugese, Dutch, and influences from African and Indian languages; Hindi, Javanese, Maroon and indigenous people languages.
Trinidad and Tobago	English	Hindi, French, Spanish, Chinese.
United States	English (not official language)	Spanish (spoken by a sizable minority)
Uruguay	Spanish	Portunol, or Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier)
Venezuela	Spanish	numerous indigenous dialects
Virgin Islands	English	Spanish, Creole
Sources: Ethnologue, ISO Country Names (ISO 3166-1), ISO Languages Names (ISO 639-1), CIA World Factbook and others.

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