Flags, Places, and Languages of the World
St. Helena to Syria

A flag is a graphic and plastic medium of social communication, usually but not necessarily political in nature. Although a generic term, “flag” frequently refers specifically to the typical rectangular flag hoisted on buildings and ships as a symbol of national identification.
—Whitney Smith, Flags Through the Ages and Across the World

	St. Helena and Dependencies	English
	St. Kittsandnevis	English
	St. Lucia	English, French Patois
	St. Vincent and The Grenadines	English (official), French patois
	Sami	Lapp
	Scotland	English, Scots, Scots Gaelic
	Seborga Principality	Italian
	Samoa	Samoan and English
	San Marino	Italian
	São Tomé and Príncipe	Portuguese
	Sark	English, French
	Saudi Arabia	Arabic, English widely spoken
	Senegal	French (official); Wolof, Serer, other ethnic dialects
	Seychelles	English and French (both official), and Seselwa (a creole)
	Sierra Leone	English (official), Mende, Temne, Krio
	Singapore	Malay, Chinese (Mandarin), Tamil, English (all official)
	Slovakia	Slovak (official), Hungarian
	Slovenia	Slovenian; most can also speak Serbo-Croatian
	Solomon Islands	English, Solomon Pijin (an English pidgin), over 60 indigenous Melanesian languages
	Somalia	Somali (official), Arabic, English, Italian
	Somaliland	Somali (official), Arabic, English
	South Africa	Xhosa and Zulu (official), English, Afrikaans, Ndebele, Sesotho sa Leboa, Sesotho, Swati, Xitsonga, Setswana, Tshivenda
	South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Territory of	English
	Spain and Regional flags	Castilian Spanish 74% (official), Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2%
	Sri Lanka	Sinhala (official), Tamil, English
	Sudan	Arabic (official), English, tribal dialects
	Suriname	Dutch (official), Surinamese (lingua franca), English widely spoken
	Swaziland	English and Swazi (official)
	Sweden	Swedish
	Switzerland and Canton flags	German, French, Italian (all official), Romansch
	Syria	Arabic (official), French and English widely understood