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America



Belize was called the British Honduras until 1981. Spanish, Maya and Garifuna are the languages besides English, which are spoken by 65% of the population (123,000 people).

Bermuda is a dependent territory of the UK, English is native here for 95% (56,000 people).

Canada: English and French are both official and native here. 60% of the poulation speaks English, that is about 16,000,000 people.

Caribbean islands

Falkland Islands is a dependent territory of the UK, English is the native language.

Guyana used to be a Crown Colony (until 1966). English is native here for 75% of the population (567,000 people), and other Amerindian dialects, plus Hindi, Urdu, Chinese and Portuguese are spoken as well.

United States of America: Besides English that is the native language of about 88% (221 million people), Spanish is the one that is spoken by a sizeable minority.

ASIA

Hong Kong became independent from Britain in 1997. English and Chinese are the official languages.

India: Besides English and Hindi, which is the primary tongue of 30%, there are several official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit. Most of them are mutually unintelligible, that is why English has an important role in national, political and commercial communication.

Pakistan: English is the official language, the lingua franca of Pakistani elite and most government ministries. Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi and Pashtu are official as well, and Balochi and other languages are spoken.

Philippines gained independence from the US in 1946. English and Philippino are official, but Spanish and Visajan are spoken as well.

Singapore gained final independence from Britain in 1965. English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil all official languages, and Malay is national.





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