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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.
Abkhaz :
Afar :
Aja-Gbe :
Albanian :
Amharic :
Anii :
Arabic (see also List of countries where Arabic is an official language):
Araona :
Armenian :
Assamese :
Aymara :
Ayoreo (Zamuco):
Balanta :
Bambara :
Bariba :
Basque :
Bassari :
Baure :
Bedik :
Bengali :
Berber :
Biali :
Bislama :
Boko :
Bomu :
Bosnian :
Bozo :
Buduma :
Burmese :
Catalan :
Cavineña :
Cayubaba :
Chácobo :
Chamorro :
Chichewa :
Chimané :
Chirbawe (Sena):
Comorian :
Corsican :
Cree :
Croatian :
Czech :
Dagaare :
Dagbani :
Dangme :
Danish :
Dari :
Dendi :
Dhivehi :
Dioula :
Dogon :
Dutch :
Dzongkha :
English (see also List of countries where English is an official language):
Ese Ejja :
Estonian :
Ewe-Gbe :
Fante :
Fijian :
Filipino :
Finnish :
Fon-Gbe :
Foodo :
Formosan :
French (see also List of countries where French is an official language):
Fula :
Ga :
Gàidhlig :
Gbe :
Gen-Gbe :
Georgian :
German :
Gonja :
Greek :
Guaraní :
Guarayu :
Gujarati :
Gwichʼin :
Hakka :
Hausa :
Hebrew :
Hindi :
Igbo :
Inuit :
Irish :
Italian :
Itene :
Itonama :
Japanese :
Javanese :
Jèrriais :
Jola :
Kabye :
Kalanga :
Kannada :
Kanuri :
Kasem :
Kazakh :
Khmer :
Kirundi :
Kissi :
Koisan (Tshuwau):
Korean :
Kpelle :
Kurdish :
Kyrgyz :
Lao :
Latvian :
Leco :
Lukpa :
Malagasy :
Malay :
Malinke :
Maltese :
Mamara :
Mandinka :
Mandjak :
Mankanya :
Māori :
Mbelime :
Meitei (officially known as Manipuri):
Mosetén :
Mossi :
Movima :
Nambya :
Nateni :
Nauruan :
Navajo :
Ndau :
Ndebele (Northern):
Ndebele (Southern):
Nepali :
Noon :
Nzema :
Oniyan :
Oriya :
Oromo :
Ossetian :
Pakawara :
Palauan :
Pashto :
Persian :
Polish :
Punjabi :
Puquina :
Quechua :
Romanian :
Romansh :
Russian :
Safen :
Samoan :
Sango :
Sena :
Scots :
Serbian :
Serer :
Shona :
Sinhala :
Sioux :
Sirionó :
Slovak :
Slovene :
Somali :
Soninke :
Sotho :
Spanish :
Susu :
Swahili :
Swati :
Swedish :
Syenara :
Tacana :
Tajik :
Tagalog :
Tapieté :
Tamasheq :
Tamil :
Tammari :
Tasawaq :
Tebu :
Telugu :
Tetum :
Thai :
Tigrinya :
Tłı̨chǫ :
Tobian :
Toma :
Tonga :
Tongan :
Toromono :
Tsonga :
Tswana :
Turkish :
Turkmen :
Tuvaluan :
Urdu :
Uzbek :
Venda :
Waama :
Waci-Gbe :
Wamey :
Welsh :
Wolof :
Xhosa :
Yaminawa :
Yobe :
Yom :
Yoruba :
Yuki :
Yuracaré :
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. [73]
Language | Number of countries language spoken |
---|---|
English | 101 |
Arabic | 60 |
French | 51 |
Standard Chinese | 33 |
Spanish | 31 |
Persian | 29 |
German | 18 |
Russian | 16 |
Malay | 13 |
Portuguese | 12 |
This section needs additional citations for verification .(November 2017) |
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 (*)
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Abaza :
Adyghe :
Aghul :
Aklanon :
Albanian :
Altay :
Arabic :
Aranesesee Occitan
Assamese :
Avar :
Azeri :
Balkar :
Bashkir :
Basque :
Bengali :
Bikol :
Bosnian :
Buryat :
Catalan :
Cebuano :
Chechen :
Cherkess :
Cherokee :
Chukchi :
Chuvash :
Cree :
Croatian :
Dargwa :
Dolgan :
Dutch :
English:
Erzya :
Even :
Evenki :
Faroese :
Finnish :
French :
Friulian :
Gagauz :
Galician :
German :
Greek :
Guaraní :
Gujarati :
Gwich'in :
Hawaiian :
Hindi :
Ibanag :
Ilocano :
Ingush :
Irish :
Italian :
Ivatan :
Japanese :
Kalmyk :
Kannada :
Karachay :
Karelian :
Kashmiri :
Kazakh :
Khakas :
Khanty :
Komi :
Korean :
Kumyk :
Kyrgyz :
Lak :
Lezgian :
Mansi :
Maranao :
Marathi :
Mari (Hill and Meadow):
Mayan :
Meitei (officially known as Manipuri):
Mi'kmaq :
Moksha :
Náhuatl :
Nenets :
Nepali :
Nogai :
Occitan :
Odia :
Ossetic (Digor and Iron dialects):
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 :
Sarikoli :
Selkup :
Serbian :
Sindhi :
Slovak :
Slovene :
Spanish :
Tagalog :
Tahitian :
Tamil :
Tat :
Tatar :
Tausug :
Telugu :
Tibetan :
Tłįchǫ :
Tsakhur :
Tswana :
Turkish :
Tuvan :
Udmurt :
Urdu :
Uyghur :
Veps :
Waray :
Welsh :
Yakan :
Yiddish :
Yukaghir :
Zhuang :
Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and it is an official language, either de facto (in practice) or de jure (by law) in 20 countries. Spanish is also an official language in Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, the United Nations, the African Union, and the Organization of American States.