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by wickedwillie on January 29th, 2004

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What is the most commonly spoken language in South America?

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  • by Astaroth on March 23rd, 2004

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    Spanish is the most commonly spoken language. Out of the 13 countries in South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela), 9 speak Spanish. Of course they have other native languages and dialects but Spanish is the official and most used language.

    The 4 non-spanish speaking countries are: Brasil (Portuguese), French Guyana (French), Suriname (Dutch) and Guyana (English), but these last three territories have a very small population.

    Is good to know too, that Central America is also Spanish-dominated in language terms. Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Cuba, El Salvador, Republica Dominicana and Guatemala are spanish-speakers. Only Belize, Bermuda and the Caribbean Islands speak other languages (most of then French and English).

    If you consider that Mexico (that is considered now North America) speaks Spanish, and almost 20% of the US residents are hispanics, and their number in Canada (which is half English, half French) is increasing dramatically, you can see that Spanish is by far the most spoken language in all the Americas.

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    • The question was about South America.

      CronoC

      by CronoC on October 29th, 2008

    • Brazil's population is is about the same as all the population of the Spanish speaking countries so Portuguese and Spanish is equally spoken but it use to be that the most common language was Portuguese in South america not Spanish. Check your facts 192 million Spanish and Portuguese speaker so it's a tie. Plus I like Portuguese better anyway

      Rykeem_A

      by Rykeem_A on May 23rd, 2011

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