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Official languages of supra-national institutions

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Official languages of sovereign countries

There are 112 languages in this category. Sovereignty is the exclusive Right to control a Government, a country, a people or oneself

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Afrikaans:

Albanian:

Amharic:

Arabic:

Armenian:

Assamese:

Aymara:

Azeri:

Basque:

Belarusian:

Bengali:

Bislama:

Bosnian:

Bulgarian:

Burmese:

Catalan:

Chinese (see also Sinitic languages):

Croatian

Czech:

Danish

Dari:

Dhivehi:

Dutch:

Dzongkha:

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

Estonian:

Fijian

Filipino:

Finnish:

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

Frisian (West):

Gagauz:

Georgian:

German:

Greek:

Guaraní

Gujarati:

Haitian Creole:

Hebrew:

Hindi

Hiri Motu:

Hungarian:

Icelandic:

Indonesian:

Irish Gaelic is the national and first official language of:

Italian:

Japanese:

Kannada:

Kashmiri:

Kazakh:

Khmer:

Korean:

Kurdish:

Kyrgyz:

Lao:

Latvian:

Lithuanian:

Luxembourgish:

Macedonian:

Malagasy:

Malay:

Malayalam:

Maltese:

Māori:

Marathi:

Moldovan (identical to Romanian according to the law of Moldova[2])

Mongolian

Montenegrin:

Ndebele:

Nepali:

New Zealand Sign Language:

Northern Sotho:

Norwegian:

Oriya:

Papiamento

Pashto:

Persian:

Polish:

Portuguese:

Punjabi:

Quechua

Romanian:

Rhaeto-Romansh:

Russian:

Sanskrit:

Serbian:

Sindhi:

Sinhala:

Slovak

Slovene:

Somali:

Sotho:

Spanish:

Swahili:

Swati:

Swedish:

Tajik:

Tamil:

Telugu:

Tetum:

Thai:

Tok Pisin:

Tsonga:

Tswana:

Turkish:

Turkmen:

Ukrainian:

Urdu: *Republic of India (with 22 other official languages)

Uzbek:

Venda:

Vietnamese:

Welsh:

Xhosa:

Yiddish:

Zulu:

Ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are official

In Africa:

In the Americas:

In Asia:

In Europe:

In Oceania:

By number of continents:

Official languages of subnational entities

Aranese see Occitan

Armenian:

Basque:

Cantonese Chinese:

Catalan:

Chipewyan:

Cree:

Tłįchǫ:

English:

See also:Official language by province

Faroese:

French:

see also Official language by province

Galician:

Gwich'in:

Hawaiian:

Inuinnaqtun:

Inuktitut:

Inuvialuktun:

Mazandarani:

Occitan (Aranese):

Rusyn:

Sami:

North and South Slavey:

Spanish:

Tahitian:

Tibetan:

Tswana:

Uyghur:

Vietnamese:

Yiddish:

Zhuang:

See also

References

  1. ^ Namibia - Constitution, servat. Not to be confused with the Malay language. Malayalam (മലയാളം malayāḷaṁ) is a Dravidian language used Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Galicia (occasionally Galiza) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. The Gwich’in language is the Athabaskan language of the Gwich’in Indigenous people. The Northwest Territories (ˌnɔrθˌwɛstˈtɛrɨtɔriz ( NWT or NT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a territory The Hawaiian language (Hawaiian ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i) is an Austronesian language that takes its name from Hawai'i, the largest island in the tropical The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the Inuinnaqtun is an indigenous language of Canada. It is related very closely to Inuktitut, and many people believe that Inuinnaqtun is only a dialect of Inuktitut The Northwest Territories (ˌnɔrθˌwɛstˈtɛrɨtɔriz ( NWT or NT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a territory Nunavut (ˈnuːnəvʊt ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Inuktitut ( Inuktitut syllabics: iu-Cans ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ( fonts required literally "like the Inuit") is the name of the varieties of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat meaning "Land of the Greenlanders" Grønland is a self-governing Danish Province located between the Nunavut (ˈnuːnəvʊt ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the The Northwest Territories (ˌnɔrθˌwɛstˈtɛrɨtɔriz ( NWT or NT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a territory Inuvialuktun is a word routinely used to describe the varieties of the language of the Inuit spoken in the northern Northwest Territories by those Canadian The Northwest Territories (ˌnɔrθˌwɛstˈtɛrɨtɔriz ( NWT or NT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a territory For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. Mazandaran is a Caspian Occitan ( IPA BrE: /ˈɒksɪtn/ AmE: /ˈɑksəˌtɑn/ known also as Lenga d'òc or Langue d'oc (native name occitan Aranese (aranés is a standardized form of the Pyrenean Gascon variety of the Occitan language spoken in the Aran Valley, in northwestern Catalonia The Aran Valley (Era Val d'Aran la Vall d'Aran El Valle de Arán is a small valley (620 Rusyn (ry русинськый язык) is an East Slavic language (along with Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian, with which it shares The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina ( Serbian: Аутономна Покрајина Војводина or Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina; Hungarian: Vajdaság Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Finnic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Finland, Norway Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Slavey (also Slave, Slavé) (pronounced) is an Athabaskan language spoken among the Slavey First Nations of Canada The Northwest Territories (ˌnɔrθˌwɛstˈtɛrɨtɔriz ( NWT or NT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) is a territory The United States of America —commonly referred to as the New Mexico ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}} Tahitian, a Tahitic language, is one of the two official languages of French Polynesia (along with French) French Polynesia ( French: Polynésie française, Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is a French Overseas collectivity in the Tibetan refers to a group of languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia as well as by overseas The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR also called Xizang Autonomous Region (བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་ Wylie: Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs The Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture ( Tibetan: རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie transliteration Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture ( Simplified Chinese: 文山壮族苗族自治州 Pinyin: Wenshān Zhuàngzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu is an Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( Tibetan: -དཀར་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Dkar-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( Simplified Chinese: 海北藏族自治州 Pinyin: Hǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu Tibetan: མཚོ་བཡྣང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( Simplified Chinese: 海南藏族自治州 Pinyin: Hǎinán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu Tibetan: མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( Simplified Chinese: 黄南藏族自治州 Pinyin: Huángnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu Tibetan: རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( Simplified Chinese: 果洛藏族自治州 Pinyin: Guǒluò Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu Tibetan: མགོ་ལོག་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is an Autonomous prefecture in Qinghai. Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( Simplified Chinese: 海西蒙古族藏族自治州 Pinyin: Hǎixī Měnggǔzú Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu Tibetan Muli Tibetan Autonomous County ( Tibetan: སྨི་ལི་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་ / smi-li rang-skyong-rdzong is in the Liangshan (Cool Mountains Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County (天祝藏族自治县 Tiānzhù Zàngzú Zìzhìxiàn Tibetan: -ཐེན་ཀྲུའུ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ Tswana ( Setswana) is a Bantu language written in the Latin Alphabet. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from 17th century Dutch and classified as Low Franconian Germanic, mainly spoken in Northern Sotho ( Sesotho sa Leboa in the language itself is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is spoken by nearly five million—4208980 people History Should include probable history of the language what form of Bantu it is most closely derived from (the coolest forms! dates of movement of major groups Swati ( siSwati in the language itself isiSwazi in Zulu is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Swaziland and The Tsonga or Xitsonga language is spoken in southern Africa by the Tsonga people also known as the Shangaan. Venda, also known as Tshivenḓa, or Luvenḓa, is a Bantu language Xhosa (ˈkǁʰoːsa ( isiXhosa) is one of the Official languages of South Africa. Zulu (called isiZulu in Zulu is a Language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers the vast majority (over 95% of whom live in South Uyghur (/ ug-Latn Uyƣurqə/ug-Cyrl Уйғурчә, or / ug-Latn Uyƣur tili/ug-Cyrl Уйғур Xinjiang ( Uyghur: شىنجاڭ Shinjang;; Postal map spelling: Sinkiang; Turkish: Sincan, Sincan Uygur Özerk Vietnamese ( tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữ) formerly known under French colonization as Annamese ( see Annam) Vietnam (ˌviːɛtˈnɑːm Việt Nam) officially For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The Kingdom of Cambodia ( formerly known as Kampuchea (, transliterated: Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchea) is a country in South East Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Laos (ˈlɑːoʊs or /ˈlaʊs/ officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a Landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Yiddish (yi [[wiktייִדיש ייִדיש]] yidish or yi [[wiktאידיש אידיש]] idish, literally "Jewish" is a nonterritorial High Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Евре́йская автоно́мная о́бласть Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia The Zhuang language ( autonym: Cuengh or Cueŋь) is used by the Zhuang people in the People's Republic of China. Guangxi (or Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region;) is a Zhuang autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Lianshan Zhuang and Yao Autonomous County ( Simplified Chinese: 连山壮族瑶族自治县 Pinyin: Liánshān Zhuàngzú Yáozú Zìzhìxiàn is located in This is a complete list of the Official languages designated in the sovereign States of the world An official language is a Language that is given a special legal status in a particular Country, State, or other territory A national language is a Language (or language variant, ie Dialect) which has some connection - de facto or de jure - with Preview This is a list of official languages for significant regional and international institutions unibe. ch/icl (International Constitutional Law collection), 1990, <http://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/wa00000_.html>. Retrieved on 2008-05-02  (Article 3)
  2. ^ a b The 1989 Language Law of the Moldavian SSR, which is still in force in Moldova (according to the Constitution [1]) asserts the existence of a "linguistic Moldo-Romanian identity". 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ( Moldovan: Република Советикэ Сочиалистэ Молдовеняскэ or Republica Sovietică Socialistă Romanian or Daco-Romanian ( dated: Rumanian or Roumanian; self designation limba română, ˈlimba roˈmɨnə is a Romance [2]

    "The law of 1 September 1989 regarding the usage of languages spoken on the territory of the Republic of Moldova remains valid, excepting the points where it contradicts this constitution. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) "

    —Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, Title 7, Article 7

    "Moldavian SSR supports the desire of the Moldovans that live across the borders of the Republic, and considering the really existing linguistical Moldo-Romanian identity - of the Romanians that live on the territory of the USSR, of doing their studies and satisfying their cultural needs in their maternal language. "

    —Law regarding the usage of languages spoken on the territory of the Republic of Moldova
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