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Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, and Swedish are all official languages at the national level in multiple countries (see table above). In addition, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Hungarian, Italian, Slovak, and Slovene are official languages in multiple EU countries at the regional level.
The European Union has designated by agreement with the member states 24 languages as "official and working": Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
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This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language , regional language , or minority language .
Country/regionOfficial LanguageAbkhaz RussianPersian (Dari) PashtoArabic BerberThe following is a list of the 23 official languages of the EU arranged in alphabetical order: 1) Bulgarian. 2) Czech. 3) Danish. 4) Dutch. 5) English. 6) Estonian. 7) Finnish. 8) French. 9) German. 10) Greek. 11) Hungarian. 12) Irish. 13) Italian. 14) Latvian. 15) Lithuanian. 16) Maltese. 17) Polish. 18) Portuguese. 19) Romanian.
The map below shows European countries and their official languages. It does not show languages that are only official in smaller, non-sovereign territories (such as German states and Spanish autonomous communities). To see the distribution of minority languages, see my complete map of European languages.
Sep 11, 2008 · The European Union has 27 Member States and 23 official languages. Each Member State, when it joins the Union, stipulates which language or languages it wants to have declared official languages of the EU. Advertisement. Linguistic Diversity. The EU is founded on the principle of diversity of cultures, customs and beliefs. This includes languages.
Oct 6, 2019 · The European Union (EU) has 24 official languages, of which three – English, French and German – have the higher status of "procedural" languages [1] of the European Commission (whereas the European Parliament accepts all official languages as working languages ). [2] .