Countries and speech

De jure versus de facto status, national versus official, and countries that name none at all.

Four national languages, the cantonal map, Swiss German versus standard German, and what a visitor actually hears.

Dutch, French and German by region, Brussels as a bilingual exception, and how signage works.

The scheduled languages, the Hindi–English arrangement at union level, and the scale of the state picture.

Terrain, small speech communities, the three official languages and how Tok Pisin bridges them.

English as official, the three major regional languages, and the size of the rest.

Modern Standard Arabic, Darija, Tamazight and the place of French in daily life.

Twelve official languages, which dominate where, and how English functions as a link language.

Filipino and English as official, the major regional languages, and code-switching in daily speech.

The top of the list, why island and highland states dominate it, and what 'a language in a country' means in a catalogue.

Trade, administration and schooling as engines; worked cases from Swahili to Tok Pisin.