what countries has spanish as their official language?
Honduras Uruguay El Salvador Panama Equatorial Guinea Andorra Guatemala Puerto Rico Paraguay Belize
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 Filipino and English are the official languages of the country . Filipino is a standardized version of Tagalog , spoken mainly in Metro Manila and other urban regions . Both Filipino and English are used in government , education , print , broadcast media , and business . However , most people outside cities do not speak much English . In most towns , the local indigenous language is spoken . The Philippine constitution provides for the promotion of Spanish and Arabic on a voluntary and optional basis , although neither are used on as wide a scale as in the past . Spanish , which was widely used as a lingua franca in the late nineteenth century , has since declined greatly in use , but is experiencing revival due to government promotions , while Arabic is mainly used in Islamic schools in Mindanao . However , Spanish loanwords are still present today in many of the indigenous Philippine languages . 

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 The official languages of the country are French and Sango ; the latter ( originally a language from the Ubangi River region ) is spoken by 90 % of the population . Some of the other languages spoken are Baya ( Gbaya ) , Banda , Ngbaka , Sara , Mbum , Kare , and Mandjia . Sango was simplified by Christian missionaries and is widely used to this day . 

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 The 1990s saw the onset of diametric changes in official Mexican government policies towards indigenous and linguistic rights . Developments of accords in the international rights arena combined with domestic pressures ( such as social and political agitation by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and indigenous social movements ) led to legislative reforms and the creation of decentralized government agencies like National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples ( CDI ) and Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas ( INALI ) with responsibilities for the promotion and protection of indigenous communities and languages . In particular , the federal Ley General de Derechos Lingüísticos de los Pueblos Indígenas [ " General Law on the Language Rights of the Indigenous Peoples " , promulgated 13 March 2003 ] recognizes all the country 's indigenous languages , including Nahuatl , as " national languages " and gives indigenous people the right to use them in all spheres of public and private life . In Article 11 , it grants access to compulsory , bilingual and intercultural education . Nonetheless , progress towards institutionalizing Nahuatl and securing linguistic rights for its speakers has been slow . 

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 With the final approval , and enactment of the bill on 2 July 2005 , Spain became the third country in the world to formally legalize same @-@ sex marriages nationwide , after the Netherlands and Belgium . 

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 As an international language of learning and literature , Latin itself continued as an active medium of expression for diplomacy and for intellectual developments identified with Renaissance humanism up to the 17th century , and for law and the Roman Catholic Church to the present . 
