| Countries (A to Z) |
Description |
| American Samoa |
most people are bilingual |
| Denmark |
English is the predominant second language |
| East Timor |
there are a total of about 16 indigenous languages, of which Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak are spoken by significant numbers of people |
| Georgia |
Abkhaz is the official language in Abkhazia |
| Kyrgyzstan |
in December 2001, the Kyrgyzstani legislature made Russian an official language, equal in status to Kyrgyz |
| Nicaragua |
English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast |
| Northern Mariana Islands |
86% of population speaks a language other than English at home |
| Norway |
small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities |
| Panama |
many Panamanians bilingual |
| Papua New Guinea |
715 indigenous languages |
| Solomon Islands |
120 indigenous languages |
| Sri Lanka |
English is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by about 10% of the population |
| Sudan |
program of "Arabization" in process |
| Sweden |
small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities |
| Tanzania |
Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources, including Arabic and English, and it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages |
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