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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.

Official languages of sovereign countries, wholly or partly

A

Abkhaz:

Afar:

Afrikaans:

Aja-Gbe:

Akan (Akuapem Twi, Asante Twi, Fante):

Albanian:

Amharic:

Anii:

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

Armenian:

Assamese:

Aymara:

Azerbaijani:

B

Balanta:

Bambara:

Bariba:

Basque:

Bassari:

Bedik:

Belarusian:

Bengali:

Berber:

Biali:

Bislama:

Boko:

Bomu:

Bosnian:

Bozo:

Buduma:

Bulgarian:

Burmese:

C

Cantonese:

Catalan:

Chinese, Mandarin:

Chichewa:

Chirbawe (Sena):

Comorian

Corsican :

Croatian:

Czech:

D

Dagaare:

Dagbani:

Dangme

Danish:

Dari:

Dendi:

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):

Estonian:

Ewe-Gbe:

F

Faroese:

Fijian:

Filipino:

Finnish:

Fon-Gbe:

Foodo:

Formosan:

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

sole official language in:
co-official language in:
Official language in:

Fula:

G

Ga:

Gàidhlig:

Gbe:

Gen-Gbe:

Georgian:

German:

sole official language in:
Official language in 21 cantons:

Gonja:

Gourmanché

Greek:

Guaraní:

Gujarati:

H

Haitian Creole:

Hakka:

Hassaniya:

Hausa:

Hebrew:

Hindi:

Hiri Motu:

Hungarian:

I

Igbo:

Icelandic:

Indonesian:

Irish:

Italian:

Official language in:

J

Japanese:

Javanese:

Jola:

K

Kabye:

Kalanga:

Kannada:

Kanuri:

Kasem:

Kazakh:

Khmer:

Kinyarwanda:

Kirundi:

Kissi

"Koisan" (Tshuwau):

Korean:

Korean Sign Language:

Kpelle:

Kurdish:

Kyrgyz:

L

Lao:

Latin:

Latvian:

Lithuanian:

Lukpa:

Luxembourgish:

M

Macedonian:

Malagasy:

Malay:

Malinke:

Maltese:

Mamara:

Manding (Mandinka, Malinke):

Mandinka:

Mandjak:

Mankanya:

Manx Gaelic:

Māori:

Marshallese:

Mauritian Creole

Mbelime:

Meitei (officially known as Manipuri)

Mongolian:

Montenegrin:

Mossi:

N

Nambya:

Nateni:

Nauruan

Ndau:

Ndebele (Northern):

Ndebele (Southern):

Nepali:

New Zealand Sign Language:

Noon:

Northern Sotho:

Norwegian:

Nzema:

O

Oniyan:

Oriya

Oromo:

Ossetian:

P

Palauan:

Papiamento:

Pashto:

Persian:

Polish:

Portuguese:

Punjabi:

Q

Quechua:

R

Romanian:

Romansh:

Russian:

S

Safen:

Samoa

Sango

Sena:

Scots

Serbian:

Serer:

Seychellois Creole

Shona:

Sinhala:

Slovak:

Slovene:

Somali:

Songhay-Zarma:

Soninke:

Sotho:

South African Sign Language

Spanish:

Susu:

Swahili:

Swati:

Swedish:

Syenara:

T

Taiwan Sign Language:

Taiwanese Hokkien:

Tajik:

Tagalog:

Tamasheq:

Tamil:

Tammari:

Tasawaq:

Tebu:

Telugu:

Tetum:

Thai:

Tigrinya:

Tok Pisin:

Toma:

Tonga:

Tongan

Tsonga:

Tswana:

Turkish:

Turkmen:

Tuvaluan

U

Ukrainian:

Urdu:

Uzbek:

V

Venda:

Vietnamese:

W

Waama:

Waci-Gbe:

Wamey:

Welsh:

Wolof:

X

Xhosa:

Xwela-Gbe:

Y

Yobe:

Yom:

Yoruba:

Z

Zimbabwean sign language:

Zulu:

List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used

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]

Language Number of countries language spoken
English 101
French 60
Arabic 51
Standard Chinese 33
Spanish 31
Persian 29
German 18
Russian 16
Malay 13
Portuguese 12

Official regional and minority languages

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

Abaza:

Adyghe:

Aghul:

Aklanon:

Albanian:

Altay:

Arabic:

Aranese see Occitan

Armenian:

Assamese:

Avar:

Azeri:

Balkar:

Bashkir:

Basque:

Bengali:

Bikol:

Bosnian:

Buryat:

Cantonese Chinese:

Catalan:

Cebuano:

Chavacano:

Chechen:

Cherkess:

Cherokee:

Chipewyan:

Chukchi:

Chuvash:

Cree:

Crimean Tatar

Croatian:

Dargwa:

Dolgan:

Dutch:

English:

See also: Official language by province and [[:l1=Official language by province]]

Erzya:

Even:

Evenki:

Faroese:

Finnish:

French:

Frisian (West):

Friulian:

Gagauz:

Galician:

German:

Greek:

Guaraní:

Gujarati:

Gwich'in:

Hawaiian:

Hiligaynon:

Hindi:

Hungarian:

Ibanag:

Ilocano:

Ingush:

Inuinnaqtun:

Inuktitut:

Inuvialuktun:

Irish:

Italian:

Ivatan:

Japanese:

Kabardian:

Kalaallisut:

Kalmyk:

Kannada:

Kapampangan:

Karachay:

Karelian:

Kashmiri:

Kazakh:

Khakas:

Khanty:

Kinaray-a:

Komi:

Komi-Permyak:

Korean:

Kumyk:

Kyrgyz:

Lak:

Lezgian:

Macedonian

Maguindanao:

Malayalam:

Mansi:

Maranao:

Marathi:

Mari (Hill and Meadow):

Mayan:

Meitei (officially known as Manipuri):

Mi'kmaq:

Moksha:

Mongolian:

Náhuatl:

Nenets:

Nepali:

Nogai:

Occitan:

Odia:

Ossetic (Digor and Iron dialects):

Pangasinan:

Portuguese:

Punjabi:

Romanian:

Russian. Russian is fixed as a state language in the Constitutions of the republics of the Russian Federation:

Rusyn:

Rutul:

Sakha:

Sambal:

Sami:

Sanskrit:

Saraiki

Sarikoli:

Selkup:

Serbian:

Sindhi:

North and South Slavey:

Slovak:

Slovene:

Spanish:

Surigaonon:

Tabasaran:

Tagalog:

Tahitian:

Tamil:

Tat:

Tatar:

Tausug:

Telugu:

Tibetan:

Tłįchǫ:

Tsakhur:

Tswana:

Turkish:

Tuvan:

Udmurt:

Urdu:

Uyghur:

Veps:

Vietnamese:

Waray:

Welsh:

Yakan:

Yiddish:

Yukaghir:

Zhuang:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The sovereignty of Kosovo is disputed. See International recognition of Kosovo.

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