[thelist] Creating a website for South/Central America

Ron White rwhite at edverify.com
Wed Jul 5 10:23:10 CDT 2000


>from roberto fabra
>No, officially there are only two: Spanish and Potughese.

Even in Suriname(Dutch Guiana) , French Guiana and Guyana(British Guiana)??
I somehow tend to doubt that.... So let's see...

Full country name: Republic of Suriname
Area: 163,270 sq km (63,675 sq mi)
Population: 440,000
Capital city: Paramaribo (pop 240,000)
People: 35% East Indian, 32% Afro-Surinamese, 15% Indonesian, and 10% Bush
Negroes (descendants of ex-slaves who inhabit the upland forests)
Language: Dutch, and also English, Sranan (an English-based Creole), Hindi,
Javanese and Chinese

Full country name: Guyane Francaise
Area: 91,250 sq km (56,575 sq mi)
Population: 134,000
Capital city: Cayenne (pop 40,000)
People: 70% Creole (African/Afro-European descent), 10% European, 8% Asian,
8% Brazilian, 4% Amerindian
Language: French, French Guianese Creole, Amerindian languages

COOPERATIVE REPUBLIC OF GUYANA AREA: 214,969 sq km (83,000 sq mi).
POPULATION: 835,000.
CAPITAL: Georgetown, pop. 195,000.
RELIGION: Christian, Hindu, Muslim.
LANGUAGE: English.

Not one of those countries list Spanish or Portuguese as even a spoken
language let alone an official one... Seems Ethnocentrism isn't confined to
us 'Mericans...

Ron






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