Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by spoken languages
Wikipedia:Five pillars says Wikipedia "incorporates elements of general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs, and gazetteers." Denoting what language is spoken in which country certainly falls within the functions of almanacs and gazetteers. One complaint:It is ill referenced and full of original research and opinion. There are too many world languages listed as "minority" in the US, for instance.  Is it based on there being one family, or a tiny community in a couple of cities? Some of these are unlikely to have even .001% of the US population who speak the language. For any language presently  spoken in the world, there are likely dozens or hundreds of persons who have come to the US who have some knowledge of it, so it is meaningless to selectively list it for some of these languages which are very rare in the US. There should be some rational cutoff, such as 1%, or even .1% to include any language as a "minority language" of a country. Some countries have "officially recognized minority languages," but that does not seem to be a meaningful criterion in the US. References should be required for every entry to satisfy  and to avoid original research ("My Gramps and Gramma came from Oogerland and speak Oogrish, so I'll put in in Wikipedia as a "minority language
— User:Edison, 23:11, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:V (Wikipedia:Verifiability)