List of official languages
Official languages of sovereign countries
Afrikaans:- South Africa (with English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Albania
- Macedonia
- Part of Serbia and Montenegro
- *Kosovo
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Chad (with French)
- Comoros (with French and Shikomor)
- Djibouti (with French)
- Egypt
- Eritrea (with Tigrignan)
- Iraq (with Kurdish)
- Israel (with Hebrew)
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Oman
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Sudan
- Syria
- The United Arab Emirates
- Tunisia
- Yemen
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- *Assam
- Bangladesh
- India (with English, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Assamese, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Sanskrit, Sindhi)
- *Tripura
- *West Bengal
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Croatian, Serbian)
- Andorra
- parts of Spain
- *Balearic Islands (with Spanish)
- *Catalonia (with Spanish)
- *Valencia (named as Valencian, with Spanish)
- the People's Republic of China
- *Mainland China (Mandarin)
- *Hong Kong (with English, Cantonese spoken de facto with Mandarin)
- *Macau (with Portuguese, Cantonese spoken de facto with Mandarin)
- the Republic of China (Taiwan) (Mandarin)
- Singapore (with Malay, English and Tamil)
- Austria (with German, Slovenian, and Hungarian)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Bosnian, Serbian)
- Croatia
- part of Serbia and Montenegro
- *Vojvodina (with Serbian, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak and Ruthenian)
- Denmark
- *Faroe Islands (with Faroese)
- *Greenland (with Inuktitut)
- Afghanistan (with Pashtu)
- Belgium (with French and German)
- The Netherlands (with Frisian)
- Suriname
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Botswana (but the national language is Setswana)
- Canada (federally, with French)
- *New Brunswick (with French)
- *Nunavut (with French, Inuktitut, and Inuvialuktun)
- *Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
- *Yukon (with French)
- Fiji (with Bau Fijian and Hindustani)
- part of the People's Republic of China
- *Hong Kong (with Chinese)
- India (with Hindi and 14 other languages)
- Kenya (with Kiswahili)
- Kiribati
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea (with Tok Pisin and Motu)
- Republic of Ireland (with Irish)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- New Zealand (an official language by custom; the other by law is Māori)
- Singapore (with Malay, Tamil and Mandarin Chinese)
- Philippines (but the national language is Filipino)
- The Gambia
- parts of the United States. The USA Federal Government does not have an official language; English is the first language by custom, not law. See English-only movement. English is official language in the following states and territories:
- *Alabama
- *Alaska
- *Arkansas
- *California
- *Colorado
- *Florida
- *Georgia
- *Hawaii (with Hawaiian language)
- *Illinois
- *Indiana
- *Iowa
- *Kentucky
- *Louisiana (with French)
- *Massachusetts
- *Mississippi
- *Missouri
- *Montana
- *Nebraska
- *New Hampshire
- *New Mexico (with Spanish)
- *North Carolina
- *North Dakota
- *Puerto Rico (with Spanish)
- *South Carolina
- *South Dakota
- *Tennessee
- *Utah
- *Virginia
- *Wyoming
- Zambia
- Fiji (with English and Hindustani)
- Philippines (with English)
- Belgium (with Dutch and German)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi (with Kirundi and Swahili)
- Cameroon (with English)
- Canada (federally, with English)
- *New Brunswick (with English)
- *Quebec
- *Nunavut (with English, Inuktitut, and Inuvialuktun)
- *Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
- *Yukon (with English)
- Central African Republic
- Chad (with Arabic)
- Comoros (with Arabic and Comorian)
- Congo-Brazzaville
- Congo-Kinshasa
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti (with Arabic)
- Equatorial Guinea (with Spanish)
- France
- Gabon
- Haiti (with Haitian Creole)
- part of Italy
- *the Aosta Valley (with Italian)
- Madagascar (with Malagasy)
- Mali
- Mauritius (with English)
- Monaco
- Rwanda (with English and Kinyarwanda)
- Senegal
- Seychelles (with English)
- Switzerland (with German, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch)
- *Geneva
- *Vaud
- *Valais
- *Jura
- *Neuchâtel
- *Fribourg, Bern (with German)
- Togo
- part of the United States
- *Louisiana (with English)
- Vanuatu (with Bislama and English)
- The Netherlands (with Dutch)
- Austria
- Belgium (with Dutch and French)
- Germany
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg (with French and Letzeburgish)
- part of Italy
- *South Tyrol (with Italian)
- Switzerland (with French, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch)
- *17 of the 26 cantons (unilingually German)
- *Graubünden (with Italian and Romansh)
- *Bern, Fribourg (with French)
- Paraguay (with Spanish)
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- *Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- *Daman and Diu
- *Gujarat
- Haiti (with French)
- Israel (with Arabic)
- India (with English and 14 other languages)
- Fiji (with English and Bau Fijian; known constitutionally as Hindustani as an umbrella term to cover Urdu, as well as Hindi.)
- Hungary
- part of Slovenia
- part of Serbia and Montenegro
- *Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Slovak and Ruthenian)
- Republic of Ireland (with English)
- Italy (with German, French, Ladin and Sardinian in some provinces)
- Switzerland (with German, French, and Rhaeto-Romansh)
- *Ticino
- *Graubünden (with German and Rhaeto-Romansh)
- San Marino
- part of Croatia
- *Istria county (with Croatian)
- part of Slovenia
- *Izola, Koper and Piran municipalities (with Slovene)
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- *Karnataka
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- Kazakhstan (with Russian)
- Iraq (with Arabic)
- Kyrgyzstan (with Russian)
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- *Kerala
- *Lakshadweep
- New Zealand (with English)
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- *Maharashtra
- Papua New Guinea (with English and Tok Pisin)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Norway (two official written forms - Bokmål and Nynorsk)
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- *Orissa
- Afghanistan (with Dari-Persian)
- Iran
- Afghanistan (called Dari-Persian in Afghanistan) (with Pashtu)
- Tajikistan (called Tajiki-Persian in Tajikistan)
- Angola
- Brazil
- Cape Verde
- East Timor
- Guinea-Bissau
- part of the People's Republic of China
- *Macau (with Chinese)
- Mozambique
- Portugal
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- part of Spain
- *Galicia, using the name Galician [See: Galician, above.] (with Spanish)
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- *Punjab
- Moldova (known locally as Moldovan, and asserted by nationalists to be a separate language, an assertion disputed by most professional linguists)
- Romania
- part of Serbia and Montenegro
- *Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak and Ruthenian)
- Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian)
- *Graubünden (with German and Italian)
- Belarus (with Belarusian)
- Kazakhstan (with Kazakh)
- Kyrgyzstan (with Kyrgyz)
- Russia
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Bosnian, Croatian)
- Serbia and Montenegro
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sanskrit)
- Sri Lanka (with Tamil, and with English as a link language)
- Slovakia
- part of Serbia and Montenegro
- *Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Romanian and Ruthenian)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Argentina
- Bolivia (with Aymara and Quecha)
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea (with French)
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Spain (Aranese, Basque, Catalan and Galician are co-official in some regions)
- Panama
- Paraguay (with Guarani)
- Peru (with Quechua)
- parts of the United States (co-official with English in New Mexico and Puerto Rico)
- Venezuela
- Uruguay
- Swaziland (with English)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Finland (with Finnish)
- *Åland (unilingually Swedish) (an autonomous province under Finnish sovereignty)
- Singapore (with Malay, English and Mandarin Chinese)
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- *Pondicherry
- *Tamil Nadu
- Sri Lanka (with Sinhala, and with English as a link language)
- India (with English, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- *Andhra Pradesh
- Papua New Guinea (with English and Motu)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Turkey
- Cyprus (with Greek (Hellenic))
- India (with Hindi, English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- *Jammu and Kashmir
- Pakistan
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Xhosa, Zulu)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Zulu)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)
Official languages at the level of state or provincial unit only
Aranese see Occitan Basque:- Basque Country (with Spanish)
- Navarre (with Spanish)
- Hong Kong (spoken de facto, with English and Mandarin)
- Macao (spoken de facto, with English and Mandarin)
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Dogrib, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
- Galicia (with Spanish)
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, French, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
- Hawaii (with English)
- Greenland (with Danish)
- Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuvialuktun)
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, French, Gwich'in, and Slavey)
- Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuktitut)
- Northwest Territories (included in Inuktitut; with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, French, Gwich'in, and Slavey)
- Val d'Aran (with Catalan and Spanish)
- Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak)
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, French, Gwich'in, and Inuktitut)
- Wales (with English)
See also
- List of official languages by institution
- List of official languages by country
- List of national languages of India
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