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Official languages of supra-national institutions

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Official languages of sovereign countries

There are 116 languages in this category.

A



Abkhaz:

Afrikaans:

Albanian:
  • Albaniamarker
  • Kosovomarker (independence disputed)
  • Montenegromarker (with Montenegrin, Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian)
  • Serbiamarker (in Kosovo and several municipalities in Central-Serbia)


Amharic:

Arabic:

Armenian:

Assamese:

Aymara:

Azeri:

B



Basque:

Belarusian:

Bengali:

Bislama:

Bosnian:

Bulgarian:

Burmese:

C



Catalan:

Chinese (see also Sinitic languages):

Croatian:

Czech:

D



Danish:

Dari:

Dhivehi:

Dutch:

Dzongkha:

E



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

Estonian:

F



Fijian:

Filipino:

Finnish:

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

Frisian :

G



Gagauz:

Georgian:

German:

Greek:

Guaraní:

Gujarati:

H



Haitian Creole:

Hebrew:

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


Hiri Motu:

Hungarian:

I



Icelandic:

Indonesian:
  • Indonesiamarker (a standardized dialect of Malay)


Inuinnaqtun:
  • parts of Canadamarker
    • Northwest Territoriesmarker (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))
    • Nunavutmarker (with English, French, and Inuktitut)


Inuktitut:
  • parts of Canadamarker
    • Nunavutmarker (with English, French, and Inuinnaqtun)
    • Northwest Territoriesmarker (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))


Irish:

Italian:

J



Japanese:

K



Kannada:

Kashmiri:

Kazakh:

Khmer:

Korean:

Kurdish:
  • Iraqmarker (with Arabic)


Kyrgyz:

L



Lao:

Latvian:

Lithuanian:

Luxembourgish:

M



Macedonian:

Malagasy:

Malay:
  • Malaysiamarker (Called Malaysian Language)
  • Bruneimarker
  • Singaporemarker (with English, Chinese and Tamil)
  • Indonesiamarker (called Indonesian Language, a dialect of the Malay, slightly differs with Malay used in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore)
Malayalam:

Maltese:

Manx Gaelic:

Māori:
  • New Zealandmarker (with English and New Zealand Sign Language)


Marathi:

Mayan:

Moldovan (identical to Romanian according to the law of Moldova)

Mongolian:

Montenegrin:
  • Montenegromarker (with Bosnian, Albanian and Croatian)


N



Náhuatl:

Ndebele:

Nepali:

New Zealand Sign Language:

Northern Sotho:

Norwegian:
  • Norwaymarker (two official written forms - Bokmål and Nynorsk)


O



Occitan:

Oriya:

Ossetian:
  • South Ossetiamarker (with Russian and Georgian - independence disputed)


P



Papiamento:

Pashto:

Persian:

Polish:

Portuguese:

Punjabi:
  • Indiamarker (with 22 other official languages)
  • Pakistanmarker (with English, Pothowari, Urdu, Kashmiri (Koshur), Pashto, Sindhi, Siraiki, Balochi and Brahui)


Q

dogri language is also speak in part of rawalpindi distract

Quechua:

R



Romanian:
  • Romaniamarker
  • Moldovamarker (official called Moldovan, although identical to Romanian according to the law of Moldova)
  • part of Serbiamarker
    • Vojvodinamarker (with Croatian, Hungarian, Serbian, Slovak and Ruthenian)


Rhaeto-Romansh:

Russian:

S



Sanskrit:
  • Indiamarker (with 22 other official languages)


Serbian:

Shona:

Sindhi:

Sinhala:
  • Sri Lankamarker (with Tamil, and with English as a link language)


Slovak:

Slovene:

Somali:

Sotho:

Spanish:

Sranan Tongo:
  • Surinammarker (with Dutch, English, Hindi an Javanese)


Swahili: Swati:

Swedish:

T



Tajik:

Tamil:

Telugu:

Tetum:

Thai:

Tok Pisin:

Tsonga:

Tswana:

Turkish:

Turkmen:

U



Ukrainian:

Urdu:
  • Indiamarker (with 22 other official languages)
  • Pakistanmarker (with English, Pothowari, Punjabi, Kashmiri (Koshur), Pashto, Sindhi, Siraiki, Balochi and Brahui)
  • Fijimarker (with Englishand Bau Fijian; known constitutionally as Hindustani as an umbrella term to cover Urdu, as well as Hindi.)


Uzbek:

V



Venda:

Vietnamese:

W



Welsh:

X



Xhosa:

Y



Yiddish:

Z



Zulu:

Number of countries with the same official language

This is a ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are official.

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In the Americas



In Asia



In Europe



In Oceania

  • 12 countries: English
  • 1 country: French and numerous languages


Official languages of subnational entities

Aranese see 'Occitan

Armenian:

Basque:



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


Catalan:

Chipewyan:

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


Cree:

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


Tłįchǫ:

  • Northwest Territoriesmarker (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
*Albertamarker
*British Columbiamarker
*Manitobamarker
*Newfoundland and Labradormarker
*Nova Scotiamarker
*Ontariomarker
*Prince Edward Islandmarker
*Saskatchewanmarker
*New Brunswickmarker (with French)
*Northwest Territoriesmarker (with Chipewyan, Cree, French, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Slavey (North and South) and Tłįchǫ)
*Nunavutmarker (with Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, and French)
*Yukonmarker (with French)


  • The United Kingdom:
*Scotland.
*Northern Ireland.
*Wales.
*England.




Faroese:

French:
  • parts of Canada
see also Official language by province
*New Brunswickmarker (co-official with English)
*Northwest Territoriesmarker (with Chipewyan, Cree, English, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Slavey (North and South) and Tłįchǫ)
*Nunavutmarker (with English, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut)
*Quebecmarker
*Yukonmarker (with English)


Galician:

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


Hawaiian:

Inuinnaqtun:
  • Northwest Territoriesmarker (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))
  • Nunavutmarker (with English, French, and Inuktitut)


Inuktitut:
  • Nunavutmarker (with English, French, and Inuinnaqtun)
  • Northwest Territoriesmarker (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))


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


Kalaallisut:

Mazandarani:

Occitan (Aranese):

Romanian:
  • Vojvodinamarker (with Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak and Ruthenian)


Rusyn:
  • Vojvodinamarker (with Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak)


Sami:
  • Finlandmarker (in four municipalities)
  • Norwaymarker (in six municipalities in two provinces)
  • Swedenmarker (in four municipalities and surrounding municipalities)


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


Spanish:

Tahitian:

Tibetan:
  • Tibet Autonomous Region (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Abamarker (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Garzê (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Diqingmarker (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Wenshanmarker (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Gannanmarker (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Haibai (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Hainanmarker (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Huangnan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Golog (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Gyêgu (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Haiximarker (with Mongolian and Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Mulimarker (with Chinese (Mandarin))
  • Tianzhumarker (with Chinese (Mandarin))


Tswana:

Uyghur:

Vietnamese:

Yiddish:

Zhuang:

See also



References

  1. (Article 3)
  2. The 1989 Language Law of the Moldavian SSR, which is still in force in Moldova (according to the Constitution [1]) asserts the existence of a "linguistic Moldo-Romanian identity".[2]



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