Brion Vibber hett schreven:
As with most other country domains, we'd probably
set up either a
redirect or a portal page, depending on what seems the most appropriate
for the linguistic situation.
Monolingual countries are a real rarity. I went
through the full list of
countries with ccTLDs and here is what I found:
Iceland: only autochthonous language is Icelandic
North and South Korea: autochthonous language is Korean, there is a
Chinese minority, but it is not autochthonous
Cuba: autochthonous language is Spanish, according to the Wikipedia
articles I consulted, there is no creole, all indigenous languages are
extinct and there are no large groups of speakers of other languages
Maldives: only autochthonous language is Dhivehi
That's it for the bigger countries.
There are several little monolingual territories: Ascension Island,
Bouvet Island, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Falkland Islands,
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Cayman Islands,
Montserrat, St. Helena, French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Some small
colonial dependencies with the colonial language being the only language
spoken and some uninhabited dependencies.
Anguilla and Saint Pierre and Miquelon according to Wikipedia have small
groups of non-English/non French speakers.
Liechtenstein is monolingual German, but the Alemannic dialect spoken
there has its own Wikipedia. San Marino is monolingual Italian, but the
Romagnol dialect spoken there is sufficiently distinct to be part of a
future Gallo-Romance dialect Wikipedia some time.
Last but not least we have some countries on the Arabic peninsula which
are officially monolingual Arabic. Those are United Arab Emirates,
Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Yemen has some very distinct South
Arabic varieties, which are classified as own languages. The Arabic
dialects of the other countries could get their own Wikipedias too some
day, just as the Egypt Arabic is getting its own project just at the
moment. United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia have very
big groups of foreign workers too, which make up up to 81% of the
population in the case of the United Arab Emirates.
All other countries have multiple languages.
Marcus Buck