English: A note on sources: the wikipedia articles on the countries and specifically the legal status of language, are often inaccurate, in contradictory states, and incomplete. All official, co-official, and de facto countries listed here were verified by checking the actual constitution. Not included were so-called creoles of spanish (portuñol, papamiento, etc).

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  official
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  co-official, or co-official with regional/indigenous or local languages
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  de facto
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  effective use by majority
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  border spanish is spoken by a sizable minority of the population (greater than 10%)