LANGUAGES
Languages.
A language map is a history map. These pages list who speaks what, where it is official, and the chain of events that carried it there.
Nine countries and one territory, on four continents, and only one of them is in Europe.
What countries speak Spanish?Twenty one countries call it official, and the largest of them is not in Europe or in South America.
What countries speak French?More people speak French in Africa than anywhere else, and the number is still climbing.
What countries speak Arabic?Twenty two states in the Arab League, and the Arabic people write is not the Arabic anyone speaks at home.
What countries speak Dutch?The Netherlands is the obvious one. The rest of the answer is in South America, the Caribbean and half of Belgium.
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