List of Official Languages
From Textus Receptus
Official languages of sovereign countries
There are 115 languages in this category.
- South Africa (with English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Albania
- Kosovo (independence disputed)
- Montenegro (with Montenegrin, Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian)
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Chad (with French)
- Comoros (with French and Comorian)
- Djibouti (with French)
- Egypt
- Eritrea (with Tigrignan)
- Iraq (with Kurdish)
- Israel (with Hebrew)
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Oman
- Palestinian Authority
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia (with Somali)
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates
- Western Sahara
- Yemen
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Bangladesh
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Croatian, Serbian)
- Montenegro (with Montenegrin, Serbian, Albanian and Croatian)
- Serbia (in the region of Sandžak)
Chinese (see also Sinitic languages):
- Republic of China in Taiwan (Mandarin is spoken, Traditional Chinese is written; Mandarin is designated as national language)
- People's Republic of China (varieties of Chinese languages are spoken, Simplified Chinese is written, Mandarin is designated as national language)
- Hong Kong (Cantonese and English are the official legal languages under the Sino-British Joint Declaration and Hong Kong's Basic Law (or mini-constitution as it is sometimes known), Traditional Chinese is written; co-official with English)
- Macau (Cantonese is spoken de facto, Traditional Chinese is written; co-official with Portuguese)
- Singapore (Mandarin is spoken, Simplified Chinese is written.) (With English, Malay and Tamil)
- part of Austria
- Burgenland (with German and Hungarian)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Bosnian, Serbian)
- Croatia
- part of Italy
- part of Serbia
- Montenegro (with Montenegrin, Serbian, Bosnian and Albanian)
- Denmark
- Faroe Islands (with Faroese)
- Greenland (with Kalaallisut)
Dari:
- Afghanistan (with Pashto)
- Belgium (sole official language in Flanders, with French in Brussels)
- The Netherlands (sole official language in every province except Friesland, where West Frisian is co-official)
- Aruba (with Papiamento)
- Netherlands Antilles (with English and Papiamento)
- Suriname
English (see also List of countries where English is an official language):
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia (de facto)
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Botswana (but the national language is Tswana)
- Canada (with French)
- Cameroon (with French)
- Dominica (with French creole)
- Fiji (with Bau Fijian and Hindustani)
- part of the People's Republic of China
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Grenada (with French creole)
- Guyana
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Republic of Ireland (with Irish)
- Jamaica
- Kenya (with Swahili)
- Kiribati
- Lesotho (with Sotho)
- Liberia
- Madagascar (with Malagasy and French)
- Malawi (with Chichewa)
- Malta (with Maltese)
- Marshall Islands (with Marsgallese)
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Namibia<ref>http://www.bible.net.au (Article 3)</ref>
- Nauru (with Nauruan)
- Netherlands Antilles (with Dutch and Papiamento)
- New Zealand (with Māori and New Zealand Sign Language)
- Nigeria
- Pakistan (with Urdu as the national language)
- Philippines (with Filipino)
- Palau (with Palauan and Japanese)
- Papua New Guinea (with Tok Pisin and Motu)
- Rwanda (with French and Kinyarwanda)
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- St. Lucia (with French creole)
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines (with French creole)
- Samoa (with Samoan)
- Seychelles (with Creole, French)
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore (with Chinese, Malay, Tamil)
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Sudan (with Arabic)
- Swaziland (with Swati)
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvalu
- Uganda (with Swahili)
- United Kingdom (de facto)
- United States (de facto)
- Vanuatu (with Bislama and French)
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Fiji (with English and Hindustani)
- Philippines (with English)
French (see also List of countries where French is an official language):
- Belgium (with Dutch and German)
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi (with Kirundi)
- Cameroon (with English)
- Canada (with English)
- Central African Republic
- Chad (with Arabic)
- Comoros (with Arabic and Comorian)
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti (with Arabic)
- Dominica (with English)
- Equatorial Guinea (with Spanish)
- France
- Gabon
- Guernsey (with English)
- Guinea
- Haiti (with Haitian Creole)
- Jersey (with English)
- Luxembourg (with German and Luxembourgish)
- Madagascar (with Malagasy and English)
- Mali
- Monaco
- Niger
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda (with English and Kinyarwanda)
- Senegal
- Seychelles (with English)
- Saint Lucia (with English)
- Switzerland (with German, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch)
- Togo
- Vanuatu (with Bislama and English)
- The Netherlands (with Dutch)
- Austria
- Belgium (with Dutch and French)
- Germany
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg (with French and Luxembourgish)
- Italy
- Province of Bolzano-Bozen (together with Italian and Ladin)
- Switzerland (with French, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch)
- 17 of the 26 cantons (monolingually German)
- Graubünden (with Italian and Romansh)
- Bern (with French)
- Fribourg (with French)
- Valais (with French)
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Israel (with Arabic)
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Fiji (with English and Bau Fijian; known constitutionally as Hindustani as an umbrella term to cover Urdu, as well as Hindi.)
- Papua New Guinea (with English and Tok Pisin)
- Hungary
- part of Slovakia
- part of Serbia
- Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Slovak and Ruthenian)
- part of Romania
- part of Ukraina
- part of Austria
Irish Gaelic is the national and first official language of:
- Ireland (with English)
- Italy
- Switzerland (with German and French)
- Ticino
- Graubünden (with German and Rhaeto-Romansh)
- San Marino
- Vatican City (with Latin)
- part of Croatia
- Istria county (with Croatian)
- part of Slovenia
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Kazakhstan (with Russian)
- part of the People's Republic of China
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Republic of Korea
- part of the People's Republic of China with Chinese (Mandarin)
- Iraq (with Arabic)
- Kyrgyzstan (with Russian)
- part of the People's Republic of China
- Kizilsu (with Chinese (Mandarin))
Lao:
- Luxembourg (with French and German)
- Republic of Macedonia
- part of Albania
- Madagascar (with French and English)
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Malta (with English)
- New Zealand (with English and New Zealand Sign Language)
- India (with 22 other official languages)
Moldovan (identical to Romanian according to the law of Moldova<ref name="moldovan">The 1989 Language Law of the Moldavian SSR, which is still in force in Moldova (according to the Constitution [2]) asserts the existence of a "linguistic Moldo-Romanian identity".[3]
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- Mongolia
- 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)
- Montenegro (with Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian and Croatian)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Zimbabwe (with English and Shona)
- Nepal
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- New Zealand (alongside Māori and English)
- Norway (two official written forms - Bokmål and Nynorsk)
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Aruba (with Dutch)
- Netherlands Antilles (with English and Dutch)
- Afghanistan (with Dari)
- Pakistan (Official language of NWFP)
- Iran
- Afghanistan (called Dari-Persian in Afghanistan) (with Pashto)
- Tajikistan (called Tajiki-Persian in Tajikistan)
- Angola
- Brazil
- Cape Verde
- East Timor (with Tetum)
- Guinea-Bissau
- part of the People's Republic of China
- Mozambique
- Portugal
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Pakistan (with English, Pothowari, Urdu, Kashmiri (Koshur), Pashto, Sindhi, Siraiki, Balochi and Brahui)
- Romania
- Moldova (official called Moldovan, although identical to Romanian according to the law of Moldova<ref name="moldovan"/>)
- part of Serbia
- Vojvodina (with Croatian, Hungarian, Serbian, Slovak and Ruthenian)
- Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian)
- Graubünden (with German and Italian)
- Russia (in some regions together with regional languages)
- Belarus (with Belarusian)
- Kazakhstan (with Kazakh)
- Kyrgyzstan (with Kyrgyz)
- Moldova (with Moldovan, Ukrainian and Gagauz)
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Bosnian, Croatian)
- Serbia
- Montenegro (with Montenegrin, Bosnian, Albanian, and Croatian)
- Kosovo (with Albanian)
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Pakistan (Official language in the Province of Sindh along with Urdu and English)
- Sri Lanka (with Tamil, and with English as a link language)
- Lesotho (with English)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Argentina
- Bolivia (with Aymara and Quechua)
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea (with French and Portuguese)
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico (de facto)
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay (with Guaraní)
- Peru (with Aymara and Quechua)
- Spain (Aranese, Basque, Catalan, and Galician are co-official in some regions)
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Swaziland (with English)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Sweden (de facto)
- Finland (with Finnish)
- Åland (monolingually Swedish) (an autonomous province under Finnish sovereignty)
- Tajikistan
- part of the People's Republic of China
- Taxkorgan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Singapore (with English, Chinese and Malay)
- Sri Lanka (with Sinhala, and with English as a link language)
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- East Timor (with Portuguese)
Thai:
- Papua New Guinea (with English and Motu)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Botswana (with English)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
Urdu:
- India (with 22 other official languages)
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Delhi Territory
- Uttar Pradesh state
- Pakistan (with English, Pothowari, Punjabi, Kashmiri (Koshur), Pashto, Sindhi, Siraiki, Balochi and Brahui)
- Fiji (with Englishand Bau Fijian; known constitutionally as Hindustani as an umbrella term to cover Urdu, as well as Hindi.)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Xhosa, Zulu)
- United Kingdom (Wales) (with English)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Zulu)
- Russia (only in Jewish Autonomous Oblast, with Russian)
Zulu:
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)