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This is a list of official, or otherwise administratively-recognized, languages of sovereign countries, regions, and supra-national institutions. The article also lists lots of languages which have no administrative mandate as an official language, generally describing these as de facto official languages.
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 BerberJun 20, 2024 · 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.
Learn about the diversity, distribution and history of languages around the world. Find out the official languages of the UN, the most widely spoken languages, and the language families of each continent.
This is a list of lists of countries and territories by official language. List of countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch are official languages; List of countries and territories where Arabic is an official language; List of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language
Arabic, French, and Spanish are official or co-official languages in several countries. An official language that is also an indigenous language is called endoglossic, one that is not indigenous is exoglossic. [7] . An instance is Nigeria which has three endoglossic official languages.
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Jul 28, 2023 · The world’s top 21 most spoken languages are (in order): English (1.452 billion) Mandarin Chinese (1.118 billion) Hindi (602.2 million) Spanish (548.3 million) French (274.1 million) Modern Standard Arabic (274.0 million) Bengali (272.7 million) Russian (258.2 million) Portuguese (257.7 million) Urdu (231.3 million) Indonesian (199.0 million)