This is a list of official, or otherwise administratively-recognized, languages of sovereign countries, regions, and supra-national institutions. The article also lists lots of languages which have no administrative mandate as an official language, generally describing these as de facto official languages.
A
Abkhaz:
Afar:
Afrikaans:
Aja-Gbe:
- Benin (a national language along with Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official language is French)
Akan (Akuapem Twi, Asante Twi, Fante):
Albanian:
Amharic:
Anii:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Arabic (see also List of countries where Arabic is an official language):
- Algeria (with Berber)
- Bahrain
- Chad (with French)
- Comoros (with French and Comorian)
- Djibouti (with French)
- Egypt
- Eritrea (with Tigrinya and English)
- Iraq (with Kurdish)[7]
- Israel (with Hebrew)
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Mali (with Tuareg and French)
- Mauritania (with several national languages: Fula, Soninke, Wolof)
- Morocco (with Berber)[8]
- Niger (with French, Buduma, Fula, Gourmanché, Hausa, Kanuri, Songhay-Zarma, Tamasheq, Tasawaq, Tebu)[9]
- Oman
- Palestine
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Somaliland (with English and Somali; independence is disputed)
- Somalia (with Somali)
- Sudan (with English)
- Syria
- Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
Armenian:
Assamese:
- India (with 21 other regional languages, and with English as a link language)
Aymara:
Azerbaijani:
B
Balanta:
- Senegal (a national language along with Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Serer, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
Bambara:
Bariba:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Basque:
- Co-official in some autonomous communities of Spain:
Bassari:
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Serer, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
Bedik:
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Serer, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
Belarusian:
Bengali:
Berber:
Biali:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Bislama:
Boko:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Bomu:
Bosnian:
Bozo:
Buduma:
Bulgarian:
Burmese:
C
Cantonese:
Catalan:
Chinese, Mandarin:
Chichewa:
- Malawi (with English)
- Zimbabwe (with English, Shona, Ndebele, Chirbawe, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Nambya, Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Chirbawe (Sena):
Comorian
Corsican :
Croatian:
Czech:
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia (legislation states that a person using Czech language at a Slovak institution must be treated as if using Slovak language)
D
Dagaare:
- Ghana (a government-sponsored language along with Akan (Akuapem Twi, Ashante Twi, Fante), Ewe-Gbe, Dagbani, Dangme, Ga, Gonja, Kasem, Nzema, the official language is English)
Dagbani:
- Ghana (a government-sponsored language along with Akan (Akuapem Twi, Ashante Twi, Fante), Ewe-Gbe, Dagaare, Dangme, Ga, Gonja, Kasem, Nzema, the official language is English)
Dangme
- Ghana (a government-sponsored language along with Akan (Akuapem Twi, Ashante Twi, Fante), Ewe-Gbe, Dagaare, Dagbani, Ga, Gonja, Kasem, Nzema, the official language is English)
Danish:
Dari:
- Afghanistan (a local variant of Persian, but defined as "Dari" in the Afghan constitution; together with Pashto)[31]
Dendi:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Dhivehi:
Dioula:
Dogon:
Dutch:
- sole official language in:
- co-official language in:
Dzongkha:
E
English (see also List of countries where English is an official language):
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia
- The Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Botswana (but the national language is Tswana)
- Cameroon (with French)
- Canada (with French)
- Curaçao (with Dutch and Papiamento)
- Dominica
- England
- Eritrea (with Tigrinya and Arabic)
- Eswatini (with Swati)
- Fiji (with Bau Fijian and Fiji Hindi)[34]
- Gambia
- Ghana (with Akan (Akuapem Twi, Ashante Twi, Fante), Ewe-Gbe, Dagaare, Dagbani, Dangme, Ga, Gonja, Kasem, Nzema)
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Hong Kong (with Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese)
- India (with 22 regional languages)
- Republic of Ireland ("second official"; with Irish)[35]
- Jamaica
- Kenya (with Swahili)
- Kiribati
- Lesotho (with Sotho)
- Liberia
- Malawi (with Chichewa)
- Malaysia (de facto official language with Malay; still serves as official and national language with Malay in Sabah and Sarawak)[36]
- Malta (with Maltese)
- Marshall Islands (with Marshallese)
- Mauritius (with French)[37]
- Micronesia, Federated States of
- Namibia (Afrikaans, German, and Oshiwambo are spoken regionally)[38]
- Nauru (with Nauruan)
- New Zealand (with Māori and New Zealand Sign Language)
- Nigeria (with Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba)
- Pakistan (with Urdu as the national language)
- Palau (with Palauan)
- Papua New Guinea (with Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu)
- Philippines (with Filipino)
- Rwanda (with French and Kinyarwanda)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa (with Samoan)
- Seychelles (with Seychellois Creole and French)
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore (with Chinese, Malay, Tamil)[25]
- Sint Maarten (with Dutch)
- Solomon Islands
- Somaliland (with Arabic and Somali; independence is disputed)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)[2]
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka (with Sinhala and Tamil)
- Sudan (with Arabic)
- Tanzania (with Swahili)
- Tonga (with Tongan)
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvalu (with Tuvaluan)
- Uganda (with Swahili)
- United Kingdom (de facto; individual countries in the UK have statutorily defined official languages, but the UK as a whole does not)
- United States (de facto; the United States has no administratively mandated official language)
- Vanuatu (with Bislama and French)[20]
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe (with Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Chirbawe, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Nambya, Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Estonian:
Ewe-Gbe:
F
Faroese:
Fijian:
Filipino:
Finnish:
Fon-Gbe:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Foodo:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Formosan:
French (see also List of countries where French is an official language):
- sole official language in:
- co-official language in:
- Benin (with several national languages: Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba)
- Burkina Faso (with several national languages including Dioula, Fula, Mossi)
- Burundi (with Kirundi)
- Cameroon (with English)
- Canada (with English)
- Central African Republic (with Sango)[39]
- Chad (with Arabic)
- Comoros (with Arabic and Comorian)
- Ivory Coast
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti (with Arabic)
- Equatorial Guinea (with Spanish and Portuguese)
- France
- Gabon
- Guernsey (with English)
- Guinea (with several national languages: Fula, Kissi, Kpelle, Malinke, Susu, Toma, Oniyan, Wamey)
- Haiti (with Haitian Creole)[40]
- Italy
- Jersey (with English)
- Luxembourg (with German and Luxembourgish)
- Madagascar (with Malagasy)
- Mali (with several national languages: Bambara, Bomu, Bozo, Dogon, Fula, Mamara, Songhay, Soninke, Syenara, Tamasheq)
- Mauritius (with English)[37]
- Monaco
- Niger (with Arabic, Buduma, Fula, Gourmanché, Hausa, Kanuri, Songhay-Zarma, Tamasheq, Tasawaq, Tebu)[9]
- Rwanda (with English and Kinyarwanda)
- Senegal (with several national languages: Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Serer, Soninke, Wolof)
- Seychelles (with Seychellois Creole and English)
- Switzerland (National and official language with German, Italian, and (Romansh))[41]
- Official language in:
Fula:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
- Burkina Faso (a national language along with Dioula, Mossi and other languages, the official language is French)
- Guinea (a national language along with Kissi, Kpelle, Malinke, Susu, Toma, Oniyan, Wamey, the official language is French)
- Mali (a national language along with Bambara, Bomu, Bozo, Dogon, Mamara, Songhay, Soninke, Syenara, Tamasheq, the official language is French)
- Mauritania (a national language along with Soninke, Wolof, the official language is Arabic)
- Niger (with French, Arabic, Buduma, Gourmanché, Hausa, Kanuri, Songhay-Zarma, Tamasheq, Tasawaq, Tebu)[9]
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Serer, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
G
Ga:
- Ghana (a government-sponsored language along with Akan (Akuapem Twi, Ashante Twi, Fante), Ewe-Gbe, Dagaare, Dagbani, Dangme, Gonja, Kasem, Nzema, the official language is English)
Gàidhlig:
Gbe:
Gen-Gbe:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Georgian:
German:
- sole official language in:
- Official language in 21 cantons:
Gonja:
- Ghana (a government-sponsored language along with Akan (Akuapem Twi, Ashante Twi, Fante), Ewe-Gbe, Dagaare, Dagbani, Dangme, Ga, Kasem, Nzema, the official language is English)
Gourmanché
Greek:
Guaraní:
Gujarati:
H
Haitian Creole:
Hakka:
Hassaniya:
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Serer, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
Hausa:
- Niger (with French, Arabic, Buduma, Fula, Gourmanché, Kanuri, Songhay-Zarma, Tamasheq, Tasawaq, Tebu)[9]
- Nigeria (with English, Igbo and Yoruba)[47]
Hebrew:
Hindi:
- India ("official language of the Union"; with English; 21 other regional languages namely Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Meitei (Manipuri), Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu[48])[49]
- Fiji (with English and Bau Fijian; known constitutionally as Fiji Hindi as an umbrella term to cover Standard Hindi, Urdu, as well as other Hindustani dialects)[34]
Hiri Motu:
Hungarian:
J
Japanese:
- Japan (de facto)
- Palau (Angaur)
Javanese:
- native to Java; Indonesia
Jola:
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Serer, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
K
Kabye:
Kalanga:
- Zimbabwe (with English, Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Chirbawe, Tshuwau ("Koisan"), Nambya, Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Kannada:
- India (with 21 other regional Languages, and with English as a link language)
Kanuri:
Kasem:
- Ghana (a government-sponsored language along with Akan (Akuapem Twi, Ashante Twi, Fante), Ewe-Gbe, Dagaare, Dagbani, Dangme, Ga, Gonja, Nzema, the official language is English)
Kazakh:
Khmer:
Kinyarwanda:
Kirundi:
Kissi
"Koisan" (Tshuwau):
- Zimbabwe (with English, Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Chirbawe, Kalanga, Nambya, Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Korean:
Korean Sign Language:
Kpelle:
Kurdish:
Kyrgyz:
L
Lao:
Latin:
Latvian:
Lithuanian:
Lukpa:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Luxembourgish:
M
Macedonian:
Malagasy:
Malay:
Malinke:
Maltese:
Mamara:
Manding (Mandinka, Malinke):
Mandinka:
- see Manding
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Serer, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
Mandjak:
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Serer, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
Mankanya:
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Noon, Safen, Serer, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
Manx Gaelic:
Māori:
- New Zealand (with English and New Zealand Sign Language)
Marshallese:
Mauritian Creole
Mbelime:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Meitei (officially known as Manipuri)
- India (along with 21 other scheduled languages recognised by the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution)
Mongolian:
Montenegrin:
Mossi:
N
Nambya:
- Zimbabwe (with English, Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Chirbawe, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Nateni:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Nauruan
Ndau:
- Zimbabwe (with English, Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Chirbawe, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Nambya, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Ndebele (Northern):
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)[2]
- Zimbabwe (with English, Shona, Chewa, Chirbawe, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Nambya, Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Ndebele (Southern):
Nepali:
New Zealand Sign Language:
- New Zealand (with English and Māori)
Noon:
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Safen, Serer, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
Northern Sotho:
Norwegian:
- Norway (two official written forms – Bokmål and Nynorsk)
Nzema:
- Ghana (a government-sponsored language along with Akan (Akuapem Twi, Ashante Twi, Fante), Ewe-Gbe, Dagaare, Dagbani, Dangme, Ga, Gonja, Kasem, the official language is English)
S
Safen:
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Serer, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
Samoa
Sango
Sena:
- Zimbabwe as Chirbawe (with English, Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Nambya, Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Scots
Serbian:
Serer:
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Soninke, Wolof, the official language is French)
Seychellois Creole
Shona:
- Zimbabwe (with English, Ndebele, Chewa, Chirbawe, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Nambya, Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Sinhala:
Slovak:
Slovene:
Somali:
Songhay-Zarma:
- Mali (a national language along with Bambara, Bomu, Bozo, Dogon, Fula, Mamara, Soninke, Syenara, Tamasheq, the official language is French)
- Niger (with French, Arabic, Buduma, Fula, Gourmanché, Hausa, Kanuri, Tamasheq, Tasawaq, Tebu)[9]
Soninke:
- Mali (a national language along with Bambara, Bomu, Bozo, Dogon, Fula, Mamara, Songhay, Syenara, Tamasheq, the official language is French)
- Mauritania (a national language along with Fula, Wolof, the official language is Arabic)
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Serer, Wolof, the official language is French)
Sotho:
South African Sign Language
Spanish:
Susu:
Swahili:
Swati:
Swedish:
Syenara:
T
Taiwan Sign Language:
Taiwanese Hokkien:
Tajik:
Tagalog:
Tamasheq:
- Mali (a national language along with Bambara, Bomu, Bozo, Dogon, Fula, Mamara, Songhay, Soninke, Syenara, the official language is French)
- Niger (with French, Arabic, Buduma, Fula, Gourmanché, Hausa, Kanuri, Songhay-Zarma, Tasawaq, Tebu)[9]
Tamil:
Tammari:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Tasawaq:
Tebu:
Telugu:
Tetum:
Thai:
Tigrinya:
Tok Pisin:
Toma:
Tonga:
- Zimbabwe (with English, Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Chirbawe, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Nambya, Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Tongan
Tsonga:
Tswana:
- Botswana (with English)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)[2]
- Zimbabwe (with English, Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Chirbawe, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Nambya, Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Turkish:
Turkmen:
Tuvaluan
V
Venda:
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Xhosa, Zulu)[2]
- Zimbabwe (with English, Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Chirbawe, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Nambya, Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Tswana, Xhosa)[29]
Vietnamese:
W
Waama:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Waci-Gbe:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Wamey:
Welsh:
Wolof:
- Mauritania (a national language along with Fula, Soninke, the official language is Arabic)
- Senegal (a national language along with Balanta, Bassari, Bedik, Fula, Hassaniya, Jola, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Noon, Safen, Serer, Soninke, the official language is French)
X
Xhosa:
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Zulu)[2]
- Zimbabwe (with English, Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Chirbawe, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Nambya, Ndau, Zimbabwean sign language, Tonga, Tswana, Venda)[29]
Xwela-Gbe:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Y
Yobe:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Yom:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French)
Yoruba:
- Benin (a national language along with Aja-Gbe, Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Xwela-Gbe, Yom, the official languages is French)
- Nigeria (with English, Hausa and Igbo)[47]
Z
Zimbabwean sign language:
- Zimbabwe (with English, Shona, Ndebele, Chewa, Chirbawe, Kalanga, "Koisan" (Tshuwau), Nambya, Ndau, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)[29]
Zulu:
This is a ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are de jure or de facto official, co-official, an administrative or working language.[66]
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Abaza:
Adyghe:
Aghul:
- Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian)[69]
Aklanon:
- Visayas (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Bikol, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Kinaray-a, Surigaonon, Tagalog, and Waray)[70]
Albanian:
Altay:
Arabic:
Aranese see Occitan
Armenian:
Assamese:
Avar:
- Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian)[69]
Azeri:
- Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian)[69]
Balkar:
Bashkir:
Basque:
Bengali:
Bikol:
- Luzon and Visayas (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Aklanon, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ibanag, Ilocano, Ivatan, Kapampangan, Kinaray-a, Pangasinan, Sambal, Surigaonon, Tagalog, and Waray)[70]
Bosnian:
Buryat:
Cantonese Chinese:
Catalan:
- parts of Spain
- parts of France
- parts of Italy
Cebuano:
- Visayas and Mindanao (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Aklanon, Bikol, Chavacano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Kinaray-a, Maguindanao, Maranao, Surigaonon, Tagalog, Tausug, Waray, and Yakan)[70]
Chavacano:
- Mindanao (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Maguindanao, Maranao, Surigaonon, Tagalog, Tausug, and Yakan)[70]
Chechen:
Cherkess:
Cherokee:
Chipewyan:
- Northwest Territories (with Cree, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))
Chukchi:
- Sakha (local official language; in localities with Chukchi population)[78]
Chuvash:
Cree:
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))
Crimean Tatar
- Crimea (with Russian and Ukrainian)
Croatian:
Dargwa:
- Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian)[69]
Dolgan:
- Sakha (local official language; in localities with Dolgan population)[78]
Dutch:
English:
- parts of the United States. See English-only movement. English is an official language in the following states and territories:
Erzya:
Even:
- Sakha (local official language; in localities with Even population)[78]
Evenki:
- Sakha (local official language; in localities with Evenki population)[78]
Faroese:
Finnish:
- Karelia (authorized language; with Karelian and Veps)[81]
French:
Frisian (West):
Friulian:
- The Friuli region of northeastern Italy
Gagauz:
Galician:
German:
Greek:
- parts of south Albania
- parts of south Italy
Guaraní:
Gujarati:
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
Gwich'in:
- Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))
Hawaiian:
Hiligaynon:
- Visayas and Mindanao (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Aklanon, Bikol, Cebuano, Chavacano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Kinaray-a, Maguindanao, Maranao, Surigaonon, Tagalog, Tausug, Waray, and Yakan)[70]
Hindi:
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
Hungarian:
Ibanag:
- Luzon (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Bikol, Ilocano, Ivatan, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Sambal, and Tagalog)[70]
Ilocano:
- Luzon and Mindanao (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Bikol, Cebuano, Chavacano, Hiligaynon, Ibanag, Ilocano, Ivatan, Kapampangan, Maguindanao, Maranao, Pangasinan, Sambal, Surigaonon, Tagalog, Tausug, and Yakan.)[70]
Ingush:
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:
- 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, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))
Irish:
Italian:
Ivatan:
- Luzon (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Bikol, Ibanag, Ilocano, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Sambal, and Tagalog)[70]
Japanese:
Kabardian:
Kalaallisut:
Kalmyk:
Kannada:
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
Kapampangan:
- Luzon (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Bikol, Ilocano, Ibanag, Ivatan, Pangasinan, Sambal, and Tagalog)[70]
Karachay:
Karelian:
- Karelia (authorized language; with Finnish and Veps)[81]
Kashmiri:
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
Kazakh:
Khakas:
Khanty:
Kinaray-a:
- Visayas (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Aklanon, Bikol, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Surigaonon, Tagalog, and Waray)[70]
Komi:
Komi-Permyak:
Korean:
Kumyk:
- Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian)[69]
Kyrgyz:
Lak:
- Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian)[69]
Lezgian:
- Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian)[69]
Macedonian
Maguindanao:
- Mindanao (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Cebuano, Chavacano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Maranao, Surigaonon, Tagalog, Tausug, and Yakan)[70]
Malayalam:
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
Mansi:
Maranao:
- Mindanao (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Cebuano, Chavacano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Maguindanao, Surigaonon, Tagalog, Tausug, and Yakan)[70]
Marathi:
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
Mari (Hill and Meadow):
Mayan:
Meitei (officially known as Manipuri):
Mi'kmaq:
- Nova Scotia ("first language"; with English (de facto), French, Scottish Gaelic)
Moksha:
Mongolian:
- part of the People's Republic of China
- Inner Mongolia, with Chinese (Mandarin)
- Haixi, with Tibetan and Chinese (Mandarin)
- Bortala, with Chinese (Mandarin)
- Bayin'gholin, with Chinese (Mandarin)
- Dorbod, with Chinese (Mandarin)
- Qian Gorlos, with Chinese (Mandarin)
- Harqin Left, with Chinese (Mandarin)
- Fuxin, with Chinese (Mandarin)
- Weichang, with Chinese (Mandarin)
- Subei, with Chinese (Mandarin)
- Henan, with Chinese (Mandarin)
Náhuatl:
- Mexico (*only recognized)
- El Salvador (*only recognized)
Nenets:
Nepali:
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
Nogai:
Occitan:
Odia:
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
Ossetic (Digor and Iron dialects):
Pangasinan:
- Luzon (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Bikol, Ibanag, Ilocano, Ivatan, Kapampangan, Sambal, and Tagalog)[70]
Portuguese:
Punjabi:
- Pakistan
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
Romanian:
- Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak and Ruthenian)
Russian. Russian is fixed as a state language in the Constitutions of the republics of the Russian Federation:
Rusyn:
- Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak)
- Ukraine
- Zakarapts'ka region (with Ukrainian, Hungarian)
Rutul:
- Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian)[69]
Sakha:
Sambal:
- Luzon (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Bikol, Ibanag, Ilocano, Ivatan, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, and Tagalog)[70]
Sami:
- Finland (in four municipalities)
- Norway (in six municipalities in two provinces)
- Sweden (in four municipalities and surrounding municipalities)
Sanskrit:
Saraiki
Sarikoli:
Selkup:
Serbian:
- Croatia-Co-official minority language in municipalities: Borovo,[97] Trpinja,[97] Markušica,[97] Negoslavci,[97] Vukovar,[98] Šodolovci,[97] Erdut,[98] Darda,[99] Jagodnjak,[97] Kneževi Vinogradi,[99] Dvor,[97] Gvozd,[97] Biskupija,[98] Ervenik,[98] Kistanje,[98] Gračac,[98] Udbina,[98] Vrbovsko,[98] Donji Kukuruzari[98] and Nijemci.[99]
Sindhi:
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
- Pakistan (Official language in the province of Sindh along with Urdu and English)
North and South Slavey:
- Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))
Slovak:
- part of Serbia
- Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Romanian and Ruthenian)
Slovene:
- part of Italy
- part of Austria
Spanish:
Surigaonon:
- Visayas and Mindanao (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Aklanon, Bikol, Cebuano, Chavacano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Kinaray-a, Maguindanao, Maranao, Tagalog, Tausug, Waray, and Yakan)[70]
Tabasaran:
- Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian)[69]
Tagalog:
- Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Aklanon, Bikol, Cebuano, Chavacano, Hiligaynon, Ibanag, Ilocano, Ivatan, Kapampangan, Kinaray-a, Maguindanao, Maranao, Pangasinan, Sambal, Surigaonon, Tausug, Waray, and Yakan)[70]
Tahitian:
Tamil:
Tat:
- Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian)[69]
Tatar:
Tausug:
- Mindanao (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Cebuano, Chavacano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Maguindanao, Surigaonon, Tagalog, Maranao, and Yakan)[70]
Telugu:
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
Tibetan:
- Tibet Autonomous Region (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Aba (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Garzê (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Dêqên (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Wenshan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Gannan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Haibai (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Hainan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Huangnan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Golog (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Gyêgu (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Haixi (with Mongolian and Chinese (Mandarin))
- Muli (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- Tianzhu (with Chinese (Mandarin))
Tłįchǫ:
- Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, and South Slavey)
Tsakhur:
- Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian)[69]
Tswana:
Turkish:
Tuvan:
Udmurt:
Urdu:
- Pakistan (with English as co-official language)
- India (with 21 other regional languages)
Uyghur:
Veps:
- Karelia (authorized language; with Finnish and Karelian)[81]
Vietnamese:
Waray:
Welsh:
- Wales (United Kingdom) (with English)
Yakan:
- Mindanao (Philippines) (with Filipino, English, Cebuano, Chavacano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Maguindanao, Maranao, Surigaonon, Tagalog, and Tausug)[70]
Yiddish:
Yukaghir:
- Sakha (local official language; in localities with Yukaghir population)[78]
Zhuang:
Namibia – Constitution, servat.unibe.ch/icl (International Constitutional Law collection), 1990, retrieved 2 May 2008 (Article 3) Slovak language is defined as official language together with Czech language by several laws – e.g. law 500/2004, 337/1992. Source: http://portal.gov.cz. Cited: "Například Správní řád (zákon č. 500/2004 Sb.) stanovuje: "V řízení se jedná a písemnosti se vyhotovují v českém jazyce. Účastníci řízení mohou jednat a písemnosti mohou být předkládány i v jazyce slovenském..." (§16, odstavec 1). Zákon o správě daní a poplatků (337/1992 Sb.) „Úřední jazyk: Před správcem daně se jedná v jazyce českém nebo slovenském. Veškerá písemná podání se předkládají v češtině nebo slovenštině..." (§ 3, odstavec 1). http://portal.gov.cz