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___ Official and Spoken Languages of the Countries of the Americas and the Caribbean.List of official, national and spoken languages of North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.Thanks to the often violent colonization of the Americas, most of the spoken languages are the tongue of the conquerors, about 400 million people in the Americas speak Spanish as their First Language.247 million people speak English as their mother tongue, 204 million people speak Brazilian Portuguese, about 8 million people speak French or French Creole. ![]() ![]() Only four of the dominant language families, Quechua (9 million speakers) and Aymara (2.2 million speakers), Guarani (5 million speakers) and Nahuatl (Aztec; 1.5 million), the most widely spoken languages of indigenous peoples of the Americas, are considered to be not endangered. |
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 (60%+),it is one of the two non Romance-speaking countries in South America. | Sranan Tongo, a Creole language contains elements
from English, Portugese, Dutch, and influences from African and Indian languages Sranan Tongo, a local creole language originally spoken by the creole population group, is the most widely used language in the daily communication;
other languages spoken are Hindi, Javanese, Maroon and indigenous people languages. |
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Trinidad and Tobago | English | Hindi, French, Spanish, Chinese. | |
United States | English (amazingly its not an official language, because no official language exists at the Federal level) | Spanish is the second most common language in the country, spoken by a sizable minority (over 12%). | |
Uruguay | Spanish | Portunol, or Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier). | |
Venezuela | Spanish and languages spoken by Indigenous peoples from Venezuela (Constitution of Venezuela 1999) | numerous indigenous dialects, at least 40. | |
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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