What countries does not speak Spanish?
Guyana, French Guiana (one of the overseas territories of France), and Suriname, which are found the northern part of South America and known together as the Guianas, are the only places in South America that do not speak Spanish or Portuguese. Some African languages are also spoken in Latin America.
Why don’t they speak Spanish in the Philippines?
Why then are the Philippines not a Spanish speaking nation, unlike so many Latin American ones? The answer lies in the amount of immigration, disease, and limited speakers when Independence came. Fewer people emigrated from Spain to the Philippines.
What countries in South America don’t have Spanish as an official language?
Spanish is the official languages in all South American countries except Brazil, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, and is spoken even in country that are not historically Spanish.
Does Brazil speak Spanish?
But do Brazilians speak Spanish? Some of them! In fact, around 460,000 Brazilians speak Spanish, according to Ethnologue. Many of these occur close to Brazil’s borders with other Latin American countries, where Spanish is the primary language.
Does Philippines speak Spanish?
Currently only about 0.5 per cent of the Philippines’ 100 million-strong population speaks Spanish; however, it’s still home to the most number of Spanish speakers in Asia.
What language does Australia speak?
English
Although English is not Australia’s official language, it is effectively the de facto national language and is almost universally spoken. Nevertheless, there are hundreds of Aboriginal languages, though many have become extinct since 1950, and most of the surviving languages have very few speakers.
Does Peru speak Spanish?
Around 84% of Peruvians speak Spanish, the official national language. More than 105,000 people speak indigenous languages other than Quechua and Aymara, mostly in the east and north of the country, in Loreto, Madre de Dios, and Ucayali regions.