Other Languages
Catalan, Occitan, Turoyo, Ukrainian, and Vlax-Romani are all reportedly spoken, but the number of speakers are not known. Many Aymará speakers have migrated to Argentina for sugar mill and other work; of more than 2.2 million speakers globally, many are in Argentina. There are Mandarin-, Cantonese-, Japanese-, Korean-, and Russian-speaking immigrant communities. Chiripá is also spoken. There are also notable communities of Afrikaans speakers, who emigrated from South Africa during or after the Boer War. Irish (Gaelic) is also spoken by some of the estimated 500,000 Irish - Argentine descendants.
If the Falkland Islands were both de jure and de facto part of Argentina, there also would be a small English-speaking population. However, English is commonly studied as a second language.
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