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The most widely spoken language of Latin America is Spanish. It is official in 18 Latin American countries, and the majority of people speak it as their first language. Portuguese is spoken in Brazil, which while is only one country has by far the region's largest population with nearly 200 million people.
There are several countries in the geographical region where French, English, Dutch, and creole languages based on these languages are spoken, but these areas are not always considered part of Latin America.
There are also a large number of indigenous languages spoken alongside the official languages of Spanish and Portuguese, including Quechua, Guarani, and Aymara.
The other 'major' language spoken in South America is ENGLISH. This is still widely spoken in Guyana. French and Dutch are not considered 'major languages" although they are spoken in French Guiana and Suriname respectively.
Latin America refers only to the Spanish speaking countries of South and Central America, so there is only 1 main language: Spanish.
Those would be:
- Spanish (375 million) - Mexico, Central America excluding Belize; most of the bigger islands in the Caribbean (i.e. Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico), most of South America exc. Brazil and the three Guyanas.
- Portuguese (203 million) - Brazil
- French (10 million) - Haiti
The only two languages spoken in Latin America are Spanish and Portuguese
The predominant language is Spanish, Portuguese is the second-most common language in Latin America.
There are many language spoken in Latin America, but mostly Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. In the whole continent of America (north and south) there is around 1,019 languages. Most are spoken by about 5 to 50 people, but are still languages non the less.
people in latin America speak spanish, but there is a difference between spanish in Mexico and spanish in Spain, so they kinddad speak both
