Dominican Republic

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Official Name
República Dominicana
Population
10,258,000
Principal Languages
Spanish
Literacy Rate
90% (2010 UNESCO)
Immigrant Languages
Catalan, Chinese (25,000), Japanese (1,500), North Levantine Spoken Arabic (3,000), Southwestern Caribbean Creole English (22,000)
Deaf Population
60,000
Language Counts
The number of individual languages listed for Dominican Republic is 4. All are living languages. Of these, 1 is institutional, 2 are developing, and 1 is in trouble.