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Official languages of supra-national institutions

See List of official languages by institution.

Official languages of sovereign countries

There are 115 languages in this category.

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Afrikaans:

Albanian:

Amharic:

Arabic:

Armenian:

Assamese:

Aymara:

Azeri:

Belarusian:

Bengali:

Bislama:

Bosnian:

Bulgarian:

Burmese:

Catalan:

Chinese (see also Sinitic languages):

Croatian

Czech:

Danish

Dari:

Dhivehi:

Dutch:

Dzongkha:

English (see also List of countries where English is an official language):

Estonian:

Fijian

Filipino:

Finnish:

French (see also List of countries where French is an official language):

Frisian (West):

Gagauz:

Georgian:

German:

Greek:

Guaraní

Gujarati:

Haitian Creole:

Hebrew:

Hindi

  • India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Fiji (with English and Bau Fijian; known constitutionally as Hindustani as an umbrella term to cover Urdu, as well as Hindi.)

Hiri Motu:

Hungarian:

Icelandic:

Indonesian:

Irish Gaelic is the national and first official language of:

Italian:

Japanese:

Kannada:

Kashmiri:

Kazakh:

Khmer:

Korean:

Kurdish:

  • Iraq (with Arabic)

Kyrgyz:

Lao:

Latvian:

Lithuanian:

Luxembourgish:

Macedonian:

Malagasy:

Malay:

Malayalam:

Maltese:

Māori:

  • New Zealand (with English and New Zealand Sign Language)

Marathi:

Moldovan (identical to Romanian according to the law of Moldova[2])

Mongolian

Montenegrin:

  • Montenegro (with Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian and Croatian)

Ndebele:

Nepali:

New Zealand Sign Language:

Northern Sotho:

Norwegian:

  • Norway (two official written forms - Bokmål and Nynorsk)

Oriya:

Papiamento

Pashto:

Persian:

Polish:

Portuguese:

Punjabi:

Quechua

Romanian:

Rhaeto-Romansh:

Russian:

Sanskrit:

Serbian:

Shona:

Sindhi:

Sinhala:

  • Sri Lanka (with Tamil, and with English as a link language)

Slovak

Slovene:

Somali:

Sotho:

Spanish:

Swahili:

Swati:

Swedish:

Tajik:

Tamil:

Telugu:

Tetum:

Thai:

Tok Pisin:

Tsonga:

Tswana:

Turkish:

Turkmen:

Ukrainian:

Urdu:

Uzbek:

Venda:

Vietnamese:

Welsh:

Xhosa:

Yiddish:

Zulu:

Ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are official

In Africa:

In the Americas:

In Asia:

In Europe:

In Oceania:

  • 12 countries: English
  • 1 country: numerous languages

By number of continents:

  • All 6 continents (besides Antarctica)
    • English (Africa: 19 countries; North America: 13 countries; Oceania: 12 countries; Asia: 4 countries; Europe: 3 countries; South America: 1 country)
    5 continents
    • Portuguese (Africa: 6 countries; South America: 1 country; Europe: 1 country; Asia: 1 country; Oceania: 1 country)
    • French (Africa: 21 countries; Europe: 5 countries; North America: 2 countries;South America: 1 country; Oceania: 1 country)
    4 continents
    • Spanish (South America: 9 countries; North America: 8 countries; Europe: 1 country; Africa: 1 country)
    2 continents
    • Arabic (Africa: 12 countries; Asia: 12 countries)
    • Russian (Europe: 2 countries; Asia: 2 countries)
    • Dutch (Europe: 2 countries; The Americas: 1 country)
    • Urdu (Asia: 2 countries; Oceania: 1 country)
    • Hindi (Asia: 1 country; Oceania: 1 country)
    • Japanese (Asia: 1 country; Oceania: 1 country)
    • Italian (Europe: 1 country; Africa: 1 country)
    • Greek (Europe:1 country; Asia: 1 country)
    1 continent
  • numerous other languages, of which German (6 countries).

Official languages of subnational entities

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Aranese see Occitan

Armenian:

Basque:

Cantonese Chinese:

  • Hong Kong (for Chinese language, both Cantonese and Mandarin are spoken de facto; co-official with English)
  • Macau (for Chinese language, both Cantonese and Mandarin are spoken de facto; co-official with Portuguese)

Catalan:

Chipewyan:

  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Cree:

  • Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Tłįchǫ:

  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, and South Slavey)

English:

  • parts of Canada:

See also:Official language by province

Faroese:

French:

  • parts of Canada

see also Official language by province

  • New Brunswick (co-official with English)
  • Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, English, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Slavey (North and South) and Tłįchǫ)
  • Nunavut (with English, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut)
  • Quebec
  • Yukon (with English)

Galician:

Gwich'in:

  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Hawaiian:

  • Hawaii (co-official with English in the state of Hawaii)

Inuinnaqtun:

  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))
  • Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuktitut)

Inuktitut:

  • Greenland (with Danish)
  • Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuinnaqtun)
  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Inuvialuktun:

  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Mazandarani:

Occitan (Aranese):

Rusyn:

  • Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak)

Sami:

  • Finland (in four municipalities)
  • Norway (in six municipalities)
  • Sweden (in four municipalities and surrounding municipalities)

North and South Slavey:

  • Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Spanish:

Tahitian:

Tibetan: