List of official languages by country and territory

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Mergefrom This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language.

Definitions

Official language

A language designated as having a unique legal status in the state: typically, the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, and often, official government business.

Regional language

A language designated as having official status limited to a specific area, administrative division, or territory of the state. (On this page a regional language has parentheses next to it that contain a region, province, etc. where the language has regional status.)

National language

A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this status.

List

Country/Region	Number of official (including de facto)	Official language(s)	Regional language(s)	Minority language(s)	National language(s)	Widely spoken
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangsTemplate:Efn	2	Abkhaz Russian		Georgian	Abkhaz
Template:FlagLangs<ref>Constitution of Afghanistan Template:Webarchive (Chapter 1, Article 16)</ref><ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	2	Persian (Dari) Pashto	UzbekTemplate:Efn TurkmenTemplate:Efn PashayiTemplate:Efn NuristaniTemplate:Efn BalochiTemplate:Efn PamiriTemplate:Efn		Persian (Dari) Pashto	Persian (Dari)
Template:FlagLangs<ref>Constitution of Albania Template:Webarchive (Article 14)</ref>	1	Albanian		Greek Macedonian Aromanian		Italian
Template:FlagLangs<ref name="Algeriaconstitution">Constitution of Algeria (Article 3)</ref>	2	Arabic Berber			Arabic Berber	French
Template:FlagLangs	1	Catalan<ref>Constitution of Andorra (Article 2)</ref>		Spanish French Portuguese
Template:FlagLangs<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1	Portuguese			Kimbundu Umbundu Kikongo Chokwe Kwanyama GanguelaTemplate:Citation needed	Angolan Portuguese
Template:FlagLangs	1	None (English has de facto status)				Antiguan and Barbudan Creole
Template:FlagLangs	1	None (Spanish has de facto status)	Spanish (in Corrientes and Chaco)<ref name="AR-5598">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="AR-6604">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Guaraní (in Corrientes)<ref name="AR-5598" /> Kom (in Chaco)<ref name="AR-6604" /> Moquoit (in Chaco)<ref name="AR-6604" /> Wichi (in Chaco)<ref name="AR-6604" />			Argentine Spanish English Italian German French
Template:FlagLangs	1	Armenian			Armenian (state language)<ref>Constitution of Armenia</ref>	Russian
Template:FlagLangs	1	None (English has de facto status)	English (on Norfolk Island) Norfuk (on Norfolk Island)
Template:FlagLangs<ref>Template:Cite constitution</ref><ref>Bundesgesetz über die Rechtsstellung der Volksgruppen in Österreich (Volksgruppengesetz – VoGrG)</ref>	1	German	Burgenland Croatian (parts of Burgenland) Hungarian (parts of Burgenland) Slovene (parts of Carinthia)	Slovene Czech Hungarian Slovak Romani Serbian	German (state language)	English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Azerbaijani			Azerbaijani (state language)<ref>Constitution of Azerbaijan, Constitution of Azerbaijan (English translation) (Article 21)</ref>	Russian
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic		English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Bengali	Sylheti (parts of Sylhet Division) Chittagonian (parts of Chittagong Division) Rangpuri/Kamtapuri (parts of Rangpur Division)	Chakma Marma Rakhine Hajong Santali Tripuri Manipuri	Bengali
Template:FlagLangs	1	English
Template:FlagLangs	2	Belarusian Russian			Belarusian
Template:FlagLangs	3	Dutch French German	Dutch (Flanders, Brussels)<ref name="BE-Const">Constitution of Belgium, in Dutch, French and German Template:Webarchive (Article 4)</ref> French (Brussels, Wallonia)<ref name="BE-Const" /> German (German-speaking community)<ref name="BE-Const" />			English
Template:FlagLangs	1	English		Garifuna		Kriol (lingua franca) Spanish (border with Mexico and Guatemala)
Template:FlagLangs	1	French
Template:FlagLangs	1	Dzongkha
Template:FlagLangs<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	37	Castilian (Spanish) Aymara Araona Baure Bésiro (Chiquitano) Canichana Cavineña Cayubaba Chácobo Chimán Ese Ejja Guaraní Guarasu'we Guarayu Itonama Leco Machajuyai-Kallawaya Machineri Maropa Mojeño-Ignaciano Mojeño-Trinitario Moré Mosetén Movima Pacawara Puquina Quechua Sirionó Tacana Tapieté Toromona Uru-Chipaya Weenhayek Yaminawa Yuki Yuracaré Zamuco
Template:FlagLangs	3	None (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian all have de facto status)<ref name="Footitt">Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:FlagLangs	1	English			Tswana	Other Bantu languages Several Khoisan languages
Template:FlagLangs	1	Portuguese<ref>According to the Brazilian Constitution, article 13: A língua portuguesa é o idioma oficial da República Federativa do Brasil. "The Portuguese language is the official language of the Federative Republic of Brazil".[1]</ref>	German (in Pomerode<ref>Pomerode institui língua alemã como co-oficial no Município. Template:Webarchive</ref>) East Pomeranian (in Pancas,<ref>Pomerano!?, Retrieved 21 August 2011</ref><ref>No Brasil, pomeranos buscam uma cultura que se perde Template:Webarchive, Retrieved 21 August 2011</ref> Santa Maria de Jetibá,<ref>Lei dispõe sobre a cooficialização da língua pomerana no município de Santa maria de Jetibá, Estado do Espírito Santo Template:Webarchive</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Domingos Martins,<ref name="linguas">Artigo da UFRJ sobre a cooficialização de línguas no Brasil</ref> Itarana,<ref>Município de Itarana participa de ações do Inventário da Língua Pomerana, Prefeitura Municipal de Itarana</ref><ref>"Lei Municipal nº 1.195/2016 de Itarana/ES". itarana.es.gov.br</ref> Laranja da Terra,<ref name="linguas"/> Vila Pavão<ref name="linguas"/> and Canguçu<ref name="linguas"/>) Riograndenser Hunsrückisch (in Antônio Carlos, Santa Catarina,<ref>Cooficialização da língua alemã em Antônio Carlos Template:Webarchive</ref> and in Santa Maria do Herval, Rio Grande do Sul<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Brasil: dialeto do baixo-alemão torna-se segunda língua oficial de cidade gaúcha</ref><ref>Apresentando... Santa Maria do Herval</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>) Talian (in Bento Gonçalves,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Caxias do Sul,<ref>Lei confirma o Talian como segunda língua oficial de Caxias do Sul</ref> Flores da Cunha<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Talian é língua cooficial de Flores da Cunha</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Nova Roma do Sul<ref>Lei Nº 1310 de 16 de outubro de 2015 - Dispõe sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul"</ref><ref>O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do Sul, município de Nova Roma do Sul</ref> and Serafina Corréa<ref>Vereadores aprovam o talian como língua co-oficial do município Template:Webarchive, Retrieved 21 August 2011</ref>) Nheengatu, Baniwa, Tucano (in São Gabriel de Cachoeira, Amazonas)<ref>Lei municipal oficializa línguas indígenas em São Gabriel da Cachoeira Template:Webarchive, Retrieved 24 August 2011</ref><ref>Na Babel brasileira, português é 2ª língua – FLÁVIA MARTIN e VITOR MORENO, enviados especiais a São Gabriel da Cachoeira (AM) Template:Webarchive, Retrieved 24 August 2011</ref> Guaraní (in Tacuru, Mato Grosso do Sul)<ref>Município do MS adota o guarani como língua oficial Template:Webarchive, Retrieved 24 August 2011</ref>	Eighty Brazilian municipalities have co-official languages.<ref>Repositório Brasileiro de Legislações Linguísticas (Brazilian Repository of Linguistic Legislation)</ref> The list can be seen at Languages of Brazil.	Portuguese	Spanish English French
Template:FlagLangs	1	Malay				English Chinese
Template:FlagLangs	1	Bulgarian
Template:FlagLangs	4	Mooré Bissa Dyula Fula			Working languages: English French
Template:FlagLangs<ref>Template:Cite constitution</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>	3	French Kirundi English			Kirundi	Swahili
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	Khmer				French English Chinese
Template:FlagLangs	2	English French
Template:FlagLangs	2	English (Federal) French (Federal)	Chipewyan (Northwest Territories) Cree (Northwest Territories) Gwich'in (Northwest Territories) Inuinnaqtun (Northwest Territories and Nunavut) Inuktitut (Northwest Territories and Nunavut) Inuvialuktun (Northwest Territories) Mi'kmaq (Nova Scotia) North Slavey (Northwest Territories) South Slavey (Northwest Territories) Tłı̨chǫ (Northwest Territories)	Chipewyan Cree Gwich'in Inuinnaqtun Inuktitut Inuvialuktun Mi'kmaq North Slavey South Slavey Tłı̨chǫ
Template:FlagLangs	1	Portuguese			Cape Verdean Creole
Template:FlagLangs	2	French Sango
Template:FlagLangs	2	Arabic French
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish	Languages of ethnic groups are official in their territories<ref> Indigenal Act, art. 28</ref>
Template:FlagLangs	1	Standard Chinese	English (Hong Kong) Portuguese (Macau)	Mongolian Uyghur Tibetan Zhuang Kazakh Korean		Other Sinitic languages
Template:Flag	3	English Mandarin Chinese Malay
Template:Flag	2	English Cocos Malay				Malay
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish	Languages of ethnic groups are official in their territories<ref>Constitution of Colombia, 1991 (Article 10)</ref>
Template:FlagLangs	3	Arabic Comorian French
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	French		Lingala Kikongo	Swahili Tshiluba
Template:FlagLangs	1	French		Lingala Munukutuba
Template:Flag	2	English Cook Islands Māori
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish		Indigenous languages<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Limonese Creole<ref>Archived at GhostarchiveTemplate:Cbignore and the Wayback MachineTemplate:Cbignore: Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
Template:FlagLangs	1	Croatian	Serbian Hungarian Czech Slovak Pannonian Rusyn		Italian (Istria County) Romani (non-territorial) Slovene (non-territorial)	English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish
Template:FlagLangs	2	Greek<ref name="cy-official">Template:Cite book</ref> Turkish<ref name="cy-official" />			Armenian<ref name="cy-minority">Template:Citation</ref> Cypriot Arabic<ref name="cy-minority" />	English
Template:FlagLangs	2	CzechTemplate:Efn		BelarusianTemplate:Efn BulgarianTemplate:Efn CroatianTemplate:Efn GermanTemplate:Efn GreekTemplate:Efn HungarianTemplate:Efn PolishTemplate:Efn RomaniTemplate:Efn RussianTemplate:Efn RusynTemplate:Efn SerbianTemplate:Efn UkrainianTemplate:Efn VietnameseTemplate:Efn	Czech
Template:FlagLangs	1	Danish	Faroese (in the Faroe Islands) Kalaallisut (in Greenland)	German (in Southern Jutland)		English
Template:FlagLangs	2	Arabic French
Template:FlagLangs	1	English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	2	Portuguese<ref name="constitution1">Constitution of Timor-Leste, section 13</ref> Tetum<ref name="constitution1" />		Indonesian
Template:FlagLangs<ref name="ecu">Constitution of Ecuador 2008 Template:Webarchive, (Article 2)</ref>	1	Spanish	Languages of ethnic groups are official in their territories	SpanishTemplate:Efn KichwaTemplate:Efn ShuarTemplate:Efn
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic		Coptic	Egyptian Arabic	English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish
Template:FlagLangs	3	French Portuguese Spanish
Template:FlagLangs	1	Tigrinya				Arabic Italian
Template:FlagLangs	1	Estonian				English Russian
Template:FlagLangs	2	English Swazi
Template:FlagLangs	5	Afar Amharic Oromo Somali Tigrinya			Afar Amharic Benshangul Gumuz Harari Kunama Oromo Sidamo Somali Tigrinya
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	3	English Fijian Fiji Hindi
Template:FlagLangs	2	Finnish Swedish		Sami (in Enontekiö, Inari, Sodankylä, Utsjoki)	Finnish Swedish	English
Template:FlagLangs	1	French<ref>Constitution of France (Article 2)</ref>		Corsican language Basque language Breton language		Occitan language
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	French
Template:FlagLangs	1	English				Wolof Mandinka Pulaar Soninke Jola Serer Mandjak Bainuk Kiriol
Template:FlagLangs	1	Georgian				Russian
Template:FlagLangs	1	German<ref>Though not explicitly specified in the constitution, this is regulated in §23 Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz (Administrative Procedures Act)</ref>	Danish (in Schleswig-Holstein) Lower Sorbian (in Brandenburg) North Frisian (in Schleswig-Holstein) Saterland Frisian (in Lower Saxony) Upper Sorbian (in Saxony) German Sign Language Low German	Danish Lower Sorbian North Frisian Romani<ref>Publication by Ministry of the Interior (in German) Template:Webarchive</ref> Upper Sorbian		English
Template:FlagLangs	1	English	Fante Asante Twi Akuapem Twi Adangme (in Greater Accra) Dagaare (in the Upper West Region) Dagbani (in the Northern Region) Ewe (in the Volta Region) Ga (in Greater Accra) Gonja (in the Northern Region) Kasem (in the Upper East Region) Nzema (in the Western Region)
Template:FlagLangs	1	Greek
Template:FlagLangs	1	English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish			Garifuna Maya Xinca
Template:FlagLangs	1	French				Fula Maninka Susu
Template:FlagLangs	1	Portuguese
Template:FlagLangs	1	English				Guyanese Creole
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	2	French Haitian Creole
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish
Template:FlagLangs	3	Cantonese English Mandarin
Template:FlagLangs	1	Hungarian<ref>Constitution of Hungary, Article H - http://www.kormany.hu/download/4/c3/30000/THE%20FUNDAMENTAL%20LAW%20OF%20HUNGARY.pdf</ref>		Croatian<ref name="hunlanguages">Recognized by Hungary as minority language by the Ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages by the Hungarian Parliament - Resolution 35/1995, 7 April 1995 - http://www.complex.hu/kzldat/o95h0035.htm/o95h0035_0.htm Template:Webarchive</ref> German<ref name="hunlanguages" /> Romanian<ref name="hunlanguages" /> Serbian<ref name="hunlanguages" /> Slovak<ref name="hunlanguages" /> Slovene<ref name="hunlanguages" />
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	2	Icelandic Icelandic Sign Language<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:FlagLangs	2	Hindi English		22 official languages:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Assamese Bengali Bodo Dogri Gujarati Hindi Kannada Kashmiri Konkani Maithili Malayalam Meitei (Manipuri) Marathi Nepali Odia (Oriya), Punjabi Sanskrit Santali Sindhi Tamil Telugu Urdu	see Languages of India
Template:FlagLangs	1	Indonesian	Javanese (in Yogyakarta)		Indonesian	Indonesian Malay Javanese Sundanese Batak Minangkabau 700 more languages in Indonesia
Template:FlagLangs	1	Persian		Azerbaijani Kurdish Luri Gilaki Mazanderani Balochi Arabic Qashqai Tati Turkmeni	Persian
Template:FlagLangs	2	Arabic Kurdish<ref>Constitution of Iraq, Article 4(1st)</ref>	Armenian recognized Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (in Assyrian areas) Iraqi Turkmen (in Turkmen areas)
Template:FlagLangs<ref>Constitution of Ireland Template:Webarchive (Article 8)</ref>	2	Irish English			Irish
Template:FlagLangs	1	Hebrew	Arabic	English		Russian English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Italian	French (in Aosta Valley) Franco-Provençal (in Aosta Valley) German (in South Tyrol) Ladin (in South Tyrol) Friulian (in Friuli-Venezia Giulia) Sardinian (in Sardinia) Corsican (in northern Sardinia)	Catalan (in Sardinia) Slovene (in Friuli-Venezia Giulia) Occitan (in Piedmont's Occitan valleys) Albanian (in Sicily and Calabria) Greek (in Calabria and Puglia)		Other Italo-Dalmatian languages
Template:FlagLangs	1	French
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	English	Jamaican Patois		Jamaican Patois	Jamaican Patois
Template:FlagLangs	1	None (Japanese has de facto status)			Japanese
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic		Circassian Chechen Armenian
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	2	Kazakh Russian			Kazakh
Template:FlagLangs	2	English Swahili			Swahili
Template:FlagLangs	2	English Gilbertese
Template:FlagLangs	1	Korean
Template:FlagLangs	2	Korean Korean Sign Language
Template:FlagLangsTemplate:Efn	2	Albanian Serbian	Turkish		Albanian (nationwide) Serbian (Northern Kosovo)
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic			Kuwaiti Sign Language Kuwaiti Arabic Kuwaiti Persian
Template:FlagLangs	2	Kyrgyz Russian			Kyrgyz
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	Lao
Template:FlagLangs	1	Latvian<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Jarinovska, Kristine. "Popular Initiatives as Means of Altering the Core of the Republic of Latvia", Juridica International. Vol. 20, 2013. p. 152 {{#if:1406-5509|Template:Catalog lookup link{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}|Template:Error-small}}</ref>				Russian
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic	Arabic	Armenian	Arabic English French	Arabic English French
Template:FlagLangs	2	Sesotho English			Sotho
Template:FlagLangs	1	English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic
Template:FlagLangs	1	German
Template:FlagLangs	1	Lithuanian				Polish Russian
Template:FlagLangs	3	French German Luxembourgish			Luxembourgish	English Portuguese
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	2	Cantonese Portuguese
Template:FlagLangs	2	French Malagasy			Malagasy
Template:FlagLangs	2	English			Chichewa
Template:FlagLangs	1	MalayTemplate:Efn	Regional/State dialects		Malay	Malay Mandarin Chinese Cantonese Tamil English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Dhivehi			Dhivehi	English
Template:FlagLangs	13	Bambara Bobo Bozo Dogon Fula Hassaniya Kassonke Maninke Minyanka Senufo Songhay languages Soninke Tamasheq		French
Template:FlagLangs	2	Maltese English			Maltese
Template:FlagLangsTemplate:Efn	1	Italian
Template:FlagLangs	2	English Marshallese
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic			Arabic Fula Soninke Wolof	French
Template:FlagLangs	2	None (English has de jure status and French has de facto status)		English
Template:FlagLangs	1	None (Spanish has de facto status)			68 National languages
Template:FlagLangs	1	English	Chuukese (in Chuuk State) Kosraean (in Kosrae State) Pohnpeian (in Pohnpei State) Yapese (in Yap State)
Template:FlagLangs	1	Romanian	Gagauz Russian Ukrainian
Template:FlagLangs<ref>Constitution of Monaco Template:Webarchive (Article 8)</ref>	1	French				Monégasque
Template:FlagLangs	1	Mongolian
Template:FlagLangs	1	Montenegrin
Template:FlagLangs	2	Arabic Berber			Arabic Berber	French
Template:FlagLangs	1	Portuguese
Template:FlagLangs (Burma)	1	Burmese	Chin Kachin Karen Karenni Mon Rakhine Shan			English
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref>	1	English	German Oshiwambo		Afrikaans
Template:FlagLangs	2	English Nauruan
Template:FlagLangs	1	Nepali<ref>The Constitution of Nepal, article 7 (1)</ref>			All languages spoken as the mother tongue in Nepal<ref>The Constitution of Nepal, article 6</ref>
Template:FlagLangs	1	Dutch	Frisian (in the province of Friesland) English (in Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius, Saba) Papiamento (in Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire)	Dutch Low Saxon Dutch Sign Language Limburgish Sinte Romani Yiddish		English
Template:FlagLangs	3	Māori language New Zealand Sign Language (English has de facto status)
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish	In Autonomous Regions: Creole Garifuna Mayangna Miskito Rama Sumo
Template:FlagLangs	1	Hausa			Arabic French Fulfulde Gulmancema Kanuri Zarma Tamazight
Template:FlagLangs	1	English			Hausa Yoruba Igbo	English Hausa
Template:Flag	2	English Niuean
Template:FlagLangs	2	English Norfuk<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:FlagLangs	2	Macedonian Albanian<ref>Article 1 (2) of the закон за употреба на јазиците (law on the use of languages), in force since 15 January 2019.</ref>
Template:FlagLangsTemplate:Efn	1	Turkish
Template:FlagLangs	2	Norwegian Sami languages<ref name="sami">"Norsk - Språkmøter" Template:Webarchive. NDLA. Retrieved 28 April 2020.</ref>	Northern Sami Lule Sami Southern Sámi Kven	Kven Scandoromani	Bokmål (written) Nynorsk (written)	English
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	Arabic		Shehri
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	2	Urdu English	Sindhi		Urdu	Punjabi Balochi Sindhi Pashto Saraiki
Template:FlagLangs	2	English Palauan	Sonsorolese (in Sonsorol) Tobian (in Hatohobei) Japanese (in Angaur)
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic				English Hebrew
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish
Template:FlagLangs	4	English Hiri Motu PNG Sign Language Tok Pisin
Template:FlagLangs	2	Spanish Guaraní
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish	Quechua, Aymara and another native languages are official wherever they predominate.
Template:FlagLangs	2	Filipino English	Aklanon (in the Visayas) Bikol (in Luzon) Cebuano (in the Visayas and Mindanao) Chavacano (in Mindanao) Hiligaynon (in the Visayas) Ibanag (in Luzon) Ilocano (in Luzon, official in La Union<ref name="launionofficiallanguage">Template:Cite news</ref>) Ivatan (in Luzon) Kapampangan (in Luzon) Kinaray-a (in the Visayas) Maguindanao (in Mindanao) Maranao (in Mindanao) Pangasinan (in Luzon) Sambal (in Luzon) Tagalog (in Luzon) Tausug (in Mindanao) Waray (in the Visayas) Yakan (in Mindanao)	ArabicTemplate:Efn (optional language) SpanishTemplate:Efn (optional language) (+ over 100 more minority languages)	Filipino Filipino Sign Language (national sign language)
Template:FlagLangs	1	Polish	Kashubian (Pomeranian Voivodeship) German (Opole Voivodeship) Lithuanian (Puńsk commune) Belarusian (Podlaskie Voivodseship)	Lemko Karaim Tatar Ukrainian		English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Portuguese	Mirandese (Terra de Miranda)			English
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	Arabic
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	Romanian		Armenian German Hungarian Romani Russian Serbian Slovak Tatar Turkish Ukrainian
Template:FlagLangs	1	Russian	(33 languages)
Template:FlagLangs	4	English French Kinyarwanda Swahili
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangsTemplate:Efn	2	Arabic Spanish			Arabic
Template:FlagLangs	1	English
Template:FlagLangs	1	English
Template:FlagLangs	1	English
Template:FlagLangs	2	English Samoan
Template:FlagLangs	1	Italian
Template:FlagLangs	1	Portuguese
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic		Faifi Razihi Mehri		Indian Languages Filipino Bengali
Template:FlagLangs	1	French			Jola-Fogny Mandinka Pulaar Serer Soninke Wolof
Template:FlagLangs	1	Serbian		(15 languages)
Template:FlagLangs	3	English French Seychellois Creole
Template:FlagLangs	1	English			Krio
Template:FlagLangs	4	English Malay Mandarin Chinese Tamil			Malay
Template:FlagLangs	1	Slovak		Bulgarian Czech German Hungarian Polish Romani Rusyn Serbian Ukrainian
Template:FlagLangs	1	Slovene		Hungarian (Dobrovnik, Hodoš, Lendava) Italian (Izola, Koper, Piran) Croatian (Metlika, Brežice)
Template:FlagLangs	1	English
Template:FlagLangs	2	Somali, Arabic
Template:FlagLangsTemplate:Efn	3	Arabic English Somali
Template:FlagLangs	12	Afrikaans English Southern Ndebele Sotho Northern Sotho Swazi Tsonga Tswana Venda Xhosa Zulu SA Sign Language<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:FlagLangsTemplate:Efn	2	Ossetian Russian	Georgian	Georgian
Template:FlagLangs	1	English			Bari Dinka Luo Murle Nuer Zande (60 other languages)
Template:FlagLangs	1	Spanish	Catalan (Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Valencian Community) Galician (Galicia) Occitan (Catalonia) Basque (Basque Country, Navarra)	Astur-Leonese (Asturias, León, Zamora, Salamanca, Cáceres) Aragonese (Aragon) Fala (Province of Cáceres) Portuguese Galician (Asturias, León, Zamora) Catalan (Aragon, Carche (Murcia))
Template:FlagLangs	2	Sinhala Tamil				English
Template:FlagLangs	2	Arabic English
Template:FlagLangs	1	Dutch			Sranan Tongo
Template:FlagLangs	1	Swedish		Finnish (Gällivare, Haparanda, Kiruna, Pajala, Övertorneå) Meänkieli (Gällivare, Haparanda, Kiruna, Pajala, Övertorneå) Sami (Arjeplog, Gällivare, Jokkmokk, Kiruna) Yiddish Romani		English
Template:FlagLangs	4	French (Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtel, Valais, Vaud) German (Aargau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bern, Fribourg, Glarus, Graubünden, Lucerne, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Saint Gallen, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, Thurgau, Uri, Valais, Zug, Zürich) Italian (Ticino, Graubünden) Romansh (Graubünden)
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic	Kurdish	Assyrian Western Neo-Aramaic Armenian
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	None (Mandarin Chinese has de facto status)			Taiwanese MandarinTemplate:Efn Taiwanese HokkienTemplate:Efn Taiwanese Hakka<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Formosan languages<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Taiwan Sign Language Matsu dialect Wuqiu dialect
Template:FlagLangs	1	Tajik			Tajik	Russian
Template:FlagLangs	2	Swahili English			Swahili
Template:FlagLangs	1	Thai	Central Thai Isan Northern Thai Southern Thai	Sixty-two 'domestic' languages are officially recognized		Burmese
Template:FlagLangs	1	French
Template:Flag	2	English Tokelauan
Template:FlagLangs	2	English Tongan
Template:FlagLangsTemplate:Efn	3	Moldovan Russian Ukrainian
Template:FlagLangs	1	English				Trinidadian Creole
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic			Arabic
Template:FlagLangs	1	Turkish		Kurdish	Turkish
Template:FlagLangs	1	Turkmen			Turkmen	Russian
Template:FlagLangs	2	Tuvaluan English			Tuvaluan English
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	2	English Swahili<ref>Second official according to the Constitution</ref>
Template:FlagLangs	1	Ukrainian	Russian (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) Crimean Tatar (Autonomous Republic of Crimea)
Template:FlagLangs	1	Arabic				English
Template:FlagLangs and Crown dependencies etc.	1	None (English has de facto status)	Irish and Ulster-Scots (in Northern Ireland) Scots and Scottish Gaelic (in Scotland) Welsh (in Wales) Pitcairnese (in Pitcairn Islands) Guernésiais and French (in Guernsey) Jèrriais and French (in Jersey) Manx (in Isle of Man)
Template:FlagLangs	1	None (English has de facto status) Template:Efn	(28 languages)	indigenous languages of recognized federal tribes	English
Template:FlagLangs	2	Uruguayan Sign Language (Spanish has de facto status)
Template:FlagLangs	1	Uzbek		Uzbek Karakalpak and Uzbek in Karakalpakstan		Russian
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	3	English French Bislama
Template:FlagLangs	2	Italian Latin				Swiss German
Template:FlagLangs	2	Spanish		Native languages are official for indigenous peoples
Template:FlagLangs	1	Vietnamese		Cantonese Cham Hmong Khmer Lao Muong Rade Tay Thai Vietnamese sign languages	Vietnamese
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	Arabic		Mehri Soqotri
Template:AnchorTemplate:FlagLangs	1	English
Template:FlagLangs	16	Chewa Chibarwe English Kalanga KhoisanTemplate:Efn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Nambya Ndau Ndebele Shangani Shona Sign languageTemplate:Efn Sotho Tonga Tswana Venda Xhosa

List of languages by number of countries in which they are the official language

Template:More citations needed This is a ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are de jure or de facto official, although there are no precise inclusion criteria or definition of a language. An '*' (asterisk) indicates a country whose independence is disputed.

Partially recognized or de facto independent countries are denoted by an asterisk (*)

Language	World	Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Countries
English	58	23	14	4	3	14	United States, Template:Efn United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India, Nigeria (See the full list)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
French	26	18	2	–	5	1	France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Madagascar, Monaco, Haiti, Vanuatu (See the full list)
Arabic	23–26*	12–14*	–	11–12*	–	–	Egypt, Sudan, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Palestine* (See the full list)
Spanish	20	1	18	–	1		Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico (See the full list)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Portuguese	9	6	1	1	1	–	Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, East Timor (See the full list)
German	6	–	–	–	6	–	Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein (See the full list)
Russian	5–8*	–	–	3	2–5*	–	Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Abkhazia*, South Ossetia*, Transnistria*. (See the full list)
Swahili	5	5	–	–	–	–	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Serbo-Croatian	4–5*	–	–	–	4–5*	–	Serbia (known as Serbian), Croatia (known as Croatian), Montenegro (known as Montenegrin), Bosnia and Herzegovina (known as Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian), Kosovo* (known as Serbian)
Italian	4	–	–	–	4	–	Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City
Malay	4	–	–	4	–	–	Malaysia, Indonesia (known as Indonesian), Singapore, Brunei
Dutch	3	–	1	–	2	–	Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname
Persian	3	–	–	3	–	–	Iran, Afghanistan (known as Dari), Tajikistan (known as Tajik)
Sotho	3	3	–	–	–	–	South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe
Tamil	2	–	–	2	–	–	Sri Lanka, Singapore
Tswana	3	3	–	–	–	–	Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Albanian	2–3*	–	–	–	2–3*	–	Albania, Kosovo*, North Macedonia
Standard Chinese	2–3*	–	–	2–3*	–	–	China, Singapore, Taiwan*
Romanian	2–3*	–	–	–	2-3*	–	Romania, Moldova, Transnistria*
Somali	2–3*	2–3*	–	–	–	–	Somalia, Ethiopia, and Somaliland*
Turkish	2–3*	–	–	–	2–3*	–	Turkey, Northern Cyprus* and Cyprus
Aymara	2	–	2	–	–	–	Bolivia and Peru
Berber	2	2	–	–	–	–	Algeria and Morocco
Chichewa	2	2	–	–	–	–	Malawi and Zimbabwe
Greek	2	–	–	–	2	–	Greece and Cyprus
Guarani	2	–	2	–	–	–	Paraguay and Bolivia
Hindi	2	–	–	2	–	–	(Delhi, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh) India, Fiji
Quechua	2	–	2	–	–	–	Bolivia and Peru
Korean	2	–	–	2	–	–	North Korea and South Korea
Kurdish	2	-	-	2	-	-	Iraq and Armenia
Rwanda-Rundi	2	2	–	–	–	–	Burundi (known as Kirundi) & Rwanda (known as Kinyarwanda)
Swati	2	2	–	–	–	–	Eswatini (Swaziland) and South Africa
Swedish	2	–	–	–	2	–	Sweden and Finland
Tigrinya	2	2	–	–	–	–	Eritrea and Ethiopia
Venda	2	2	–	–	–	–	South Africa and Zimbabwe
Bengali	2	2	–	–	–	–	India (West Bengal, Tripura, Assam) and Bangladesh

See also

• List of official languages
• Linguistic demography
• Lists of countries and territories by official language
• Lists of endangered languages
• Lists of languages
• List of languages by number of native speakers
• List of languages by total number of speakers
• World language
• Languages used on the Internet

External links

• Languages - CIA listing of languages spoken in each country