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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 .
List of official languages. See also: List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language. This is a list of official, or otherwise administratively-recognized, languages of sovereign countries, regions, and supra-national institutions.
This is the list of countries sorted by the number of official languages. Only countries with three or more official languages, either nationally or locally, are included.
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The world’s top 21 most spoken languages are (in order): 1. English (1.452 billion) 2. Mandarin Chinese (1.118 billion) 3. Hindi (602.2 million) 4. Spanish (548.3 million) 5. French (274.1 million) 6. Modern Standard Arabic (274.0 million) 7. Bengali (272.7 million) 8. Russian (258.2 million) 9. Portuguese (257.7 million) 10. Urdu (231.3 million) 1...
That’s a complicated question! Some countries have a lotof different languages! In these countries, people often speak the national language plus a local language. It may be more productive to look at multilingualism overall. First, about 43 percent of the world’s population is bilingual, that is, they speak two languages fluently. That’s about 3.3...
So, who speaks what and where? We’re glad you asked! The list presented here comes from the CIA World Factbook, a widely recognized source of data on countries around the globe. The table below lists the official language of each country if there is one, as well as other languages spoken. In selected countries, the percent of the population that sp...
Africa has an astounding amount of linguistic diversity. The Afro-Asiatic branch of languages alone has over 300 different languages! Would you like to learn more about the languages of Africa? Check out our African Languages resource page! Return to Top of Page
Learn which countries speak which languages as official or dominant languages. Find out the number and distribution of speakers of Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, and German.
This entry provides a listing of languages spoken in each country and specifies any that are official national or regional languages. When data is available, the languages spoken in each country are broken down according to the percent of the total population speaking each language as a first language, unless otherwise noted.
Learn about the diversity and distribution of languages in the world, by continent and by country. Find out the most widely spoken languages, the official languages of the UN, and the lingua francas of different regions.
