Getalu ambihtlicra sprǣca
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[ādihtan] Official languages of sovereign countries
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Afrikaans:
- South Africa (with English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
Albanisc:
- 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
Armenian:
- Armenia
Assamese:
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- Assam
Aymara:
- Bolivia (with Spanish and Quechua)
- Peru (with Spanish and Quechua)
Azeri:
- Azerbaijan
Bahasa Indonesia:
- Indonesia
Belarusian:
Bengali:
- Bangladesh
- India (with English, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Assamese, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Sanskrit, Sindhi)
- Tripura
- West Bengal
Bosnian:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Croatian, Serbian)
Bulgarian:
- Bulgaria
Catalan:
- Andorra
- parts of Spain
- Balearic Islands (with Spanish)
- Catalonia (with Spanish)
- Valencia (named as Valencian, with Spanish)
Cīnisc:
- Folclicu Cynewīse Cīnan
- 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)
Croatian
- some municipalities in Austria (with German)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Bosnian, Serbian)
- Croatia
- part of Serbia and Montenegro
- Vojvodina (with Serbian, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak and Ruthenian)
Czech:
Danish
- Denmark
- Faroe Islands (with Faroese)
- Greenland (with Inuktitut)
Dari:
- Afghanistan (with Pashtu)
Dhivehi:
- Maldives
Dutch:
- Belgium (with French and German)
- The Netherlands (with Frisian)
- Suriname
- The Netherlands Antilles
- Aruba
Dzongkha:
- Bhutan
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Botswana (but the national sprǣc is Setswana)
- Canada (federally, with French)
- Nīwe Brunswick (with French)
- Nunavut (mid Frencisc, Inuktitut, and Inuvialuktun)
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, Frencisc, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
- Yukon (with Frencisc)
- Fiji (with Bau Fijian and Hindustani)
- part of the People's Republic of China
- Hong Kong (with Chinese)
- Guyana
- India (with Hindi and 14 other sprǣcs)
- Kenya (with Kiswahili)
- Kiribati
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea (with Tok Pisin and Motu)
- Republic of Ireland (with Irish)
- Sūðafrica (with Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
- Nīwe Sǣland (an official sprǣc by custom; the other by law is Māori)
- Singapore (with Malay, Tamil and Mandarin Chinese)
- Philippines (but the national sprǣc is Filipino)
- The Gambia
- Zambia
Estonian:
Fijian
- Fiji (with English and Hindustani)
Filipino:
- Philippines (with English)
- Finland (with Swedish)
- Belgium (mid Dutch and Þēodisc)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi (with Kirundi and Swahili)
- Cameroon (with English)
- Canada (federally, mid Englisc)
- New Brunswick (mid Englisc)
- Quebec
- Nunavut (with Englisc, Inuktitut, and Inuvialuktun)
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
- Yukon (with Englisc)
- 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)
- Francland
- Gabon
- Guinea
- Haiti (with Haitian Creole)
- part of Italy
- the Aosta Valley (with Italian)
- Luxembourg (with German and Luxembourgish)
- Madagascar (with Malagasy)
- Mali
- Mauritius (with English)
- Monaco
- Rwanda (with English and Kinyarwanda)
- Senegal
- Seychelles (with English)
- Swissland (with German, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch)
- Geneva
- Vaud
- Valais
- Jura
- Neuchâtel
- Fribourg, Bern (with German)
- Togo
- Vanuatu (with Bislama and English)
Frisian:
- Nīðerland (with Nīðerlandisc)
Georgian:
- Georgia
German:
- Austria
- Belgium (with Dutch and French)
- Germany
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg (with French and Luxembourgish)
- part of Italy
- South Tyrol (with Italian)
- Swissland (with French, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch)
- 17 of the 26 cantons (unilingually German)
- Graubünden (with Italian and Romansh)
- Bern, Fribourg (with French)
Greek:
- Greece
- Cyprus (with Turkish)
Guarani
- Paraguay (with Spanish)
Gujarati:
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- Daman and Diu
- Gujarat
Haitian Creole:
- Haiti (with French)
Hebrew:
- Israel (with Arabic)
Hindi
- India (with English and 14 other sprǣcs)
- Fiji (with English and Bau Fijian; known constitutionally as Hindustani as an umbrella term to cover Urdu, as well as Hindi.)
Hiri Motu:
- Papua New Guinea (with English and Tok Pisin)
Hungarian:
- Hungary
- part of Slovenia
- part of Serbia and Montenegro
- Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Slovak and Ruthenian)
Irish is the first official sprǣc of:
- Republic of Ireland (with English)
Italian:
- Italy (with German, French, Ladin and Sardinian in some provinces)
- Swissland (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)
Japanese:
- Japan
- Palau (with Palauan and English)
Kannada:
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- Karnataka
Kashmiri:
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
Kazakh:
- Kazakhstan (with Russian)
Khmer:
- Cambodia
Korean:
- North Korea
- South Korea
Kurdish:
- Iraq (with Arabic)
Kyrgyz:
- Kyrgyzstan (with Russian)
Lao:
- Laos
Latin:
- Holy See (Vatican City)
Latvian:
Lithuanian:
Macedonian:
- Macedonia
Malay:
- Malaysia (as Bahasa Melayu)
- Brunei
- Singapore (with English, Tamil and Mandarin Chinese)
Malayalam:
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- Kerala
- Lakshadweep
Māori:
- New Zealand (with English)
Marathi:
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- Maharashtra
Moldovan (asserted by nationalists to be distinct from Romanian; most linguists remain skeptical):
- Moldova
Ndebele:
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
Nepali:
- Nepal
Northern Sotho:
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
Norwegian:
- Norway (two official written forms - Bokmål and Nynorsk)
Oriya:
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- Orissa
Pashtu:
- Afghanistan (with Dari-Persian)
Persian:
- Iran
- Afghanistan (called Dari-Persian in Afghanistan) (with Pashtu)
- Tajikistan (called Tajiki-Persian in Tajikistan)
Polish:
Portuguese:
- 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)
Punjabi:
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- Punjab
Quechua
- Bolivia (with Spanish and Aymara)
- Peru (with Spanish and Aymara)
Romanian:
- Moldova (known locally as Moldovan, and asserted by nationalists to be a separate sprǣc, an assertion disputed by most professional linguists)
- Romania
- part of Serbia and Montenegro
- Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak and Ruthenian)
Rhaeto-Romansh:
- Swissland (with German, French, and Italian)
- Graubünden (with German and Italian)
- Belarus (with Belarussisc)
- Kazakhstan (with Kazakh)
- Kyrgyzstan (with Kyrgyz)
- Russland
- Turkmenistan (with Turkmen)
- Uzbekistan (with Uzbek)
Sanskrit:
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi)
Serbian:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Bosnian, Croatian)
- Serbia and Montenegro
Sindhi:
- India (with English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sanskrit)
Sinhala:
- Sri Lanka (with Tamil, and with English as a link sprǣc)
Slofacisc
- Slovakia
- part of Serbia and Montenegro
- Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Romanian and Ruthenian)
Slovene:
- Slovenia
Somali:
- Somalia
Sotho:
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
Spanish:
- Argentina
- Bolivia (with Aymara and Quecha)
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea (with French)
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay (with Guarani)
- Peru (with Quechua)
- Spain (Aranese, Basque, Catalan and Galician are co-official in some regions)
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Swahili:
- Kenya (with English)
- Tanzania
Swazi:
- Swaziland (with English)
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
Swedish:
- Finland (with Finnish)
- Åland (unilingually Swedish) (an autonomous province under Finnish sovereignty)
Tajik:
- Tajikistan
Tamil:
- 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 sprǣc)
Telugu:
- India (with English, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- Andhra Pradesh
Thai:
- Thailand
Tok Pisin:
- Papua New Guinea (with English and Motu)
Tsonga:
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
Tswana:
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
Turkish:
- Turkey
- Cyprus (with Greek (Hellenic))
Turkmen]:
- Turkmenistan (with Russian)
Urdu:
- India (with Hindi, English, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Sanskrit)
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Pakistan
Uzbek:
- Uzbekistan (with Russian), and Central Asia countries
Venda:
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Xhosa, Zulu)
Vietnamese:
- Vietnam
Xhosa:
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Zulu)
Zulu:
- South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)
[ādihtan] Ambihtlica sprǣca at the level of state or provincial unit only
Aranese see Occitan
Basque:
- Basque Country (with Spanish)
- Navarre (with Spanish)
Cantonese:
- Hong Kong (spoken de facto, with English and Mandarin)
- Macao (spoken de facto, with English and Mandarin)
Chipewyan:
- Northwest Territories (with Cree, Dogrib, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
Cree:
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Dogrib, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
Dogrib:
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
- In the Geánlǽht Rícu American. The USA Federal Government does not have an official language; English is the official language de facto. 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
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Utah
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
- part of the United States
- Louisiana (with English)
Galician:
- Galicia (with Spanish)
NOTE: Whether Galician is in fact a language, or a dialect of Portuguese, is a matter of debate among linguists.
Gwich'in:
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, French, Inuktitut, and Slavey)
Hawaiian:
- Hawaii (with English)
Inuktitut:
- Greenland (with Danish)
- Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuvialuktun)
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, French, Gwich'in, and Slavey)
Inuvialuktun:
- Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuktitut)
- Northwest Territories (included in Inuktitut; with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, French, Gwich'in, and Slavey)
Occitan (Aranese):
- Val d'Aran (with Catalan and Spanish)
Rusyn:
- Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak)
Sami:
- Finland (in four municipalities)
- Norway (in six municipalities)
- Sweden (in four municipalities and surrounding municipalities)
Slavey:
- Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, French, Gwich'in, and Inuktitut)
Spanish:
- parts of the United States (co-official with English in New Mexico and Puerto Rico)
Welsh:
- Wales (with English)
A map of official languages: (note: source is CIA World Factbook. Countries that include several official languages only use one, often to avoid adding languages to the chart unnecessarily, preventing confusion.)
[ādihtan] See also
- List of official languages by institution
- List of official languages by country
- List of national languages of India