Getalu ambihtlicra sprǣca

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[ādihtan] Official languages of sovereign countries

Þis gewrit hæfþ wordcwide on Nīwum Englisce.

Afrikaans:

  • South Africa (with English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)

Albanisc:

  • Albania
  • Macedonia
  • Part of Serbia and Montenegro
    • Kosovo

Arabic:

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)

Chinese:

  • 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)

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

English:

  • Australia
  • Bahamas
  • Belize
  • Botswana (but the national sprǣc 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)
  • 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)
  • South Africa (with Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
  • New Zealand (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)

Finnish:

  • Finland (with Swedish)

French:

  • 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
  • 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:

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:

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)

Russisc:

  • 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)

Slovak

  • 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)

Ūcrægnisc:

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)

Englisc:

Frencisc:

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:

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.)

Official Languages

[ādihtan] See also

  • List of official languages by institution
  • List of official languages by country
  • List of national languages of India