List official languages

This page counts the 77 official languages in the countries of the world. The asterisks (*) indicate the languages which are official only in part of the territory (States, cantons, provinces…). The India laying out, in addition to the English and the Hindi , of twenty-two other official languages, these last do not appear in the list and one will refer to the article on the languages of India.

to also see List of the officially multilingual areas

Languages having a statute near UNO

English

The English is the official language of:

South Africa (with the Afrikaans, the ndébélé*, the sotho of Nord*, the sotho of Sud*, the swati*, the tsonga*, the tswana*, the venda*, the xhosa* and the zoulou*)
Australia
the Bahamas
Botswana (but national language is the setswana)
Cameroun (with French)
Canada (with French)
Cyprus (with the Greek and Turkish)
Dominique
Fiji (but the national language is the Fijian)
Gambia
Ghana
HongKong (with Chinese)
India (with the Hindi and 22 regional official languages)
Ireland (official but secondary, with the Irish)
Kenya (with the swahili)
Malawi
Malta (with the Maltese)
Nauru (with the nauruan)
Nigeria
Uganda
Filipino Pakistan
(with the Filipino)
the United Kingdom
Sierra Leone
Singapore (with the Malayan one, the tamoul and Mandarin)
Zimbabwe (with the Shona and the Sindebele)

Arab

The Arab is the official language of:

Saudi Arabia
(with English and French)
Djibouti (with French)
Iraq (with the kurde*)
(with Hebrew)
Jordan
Lebanon
Libya
Morocco
Mauritania
Oman
Palestine
Qatar
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Chad (with French)
Tunisia

Chinese

The Chinese , hanyu 汉语 or 漢語 sometimes named Mandarin ( guanhua 官话 or 官話) is the official language of:

China locally named common language, putonghua 普通话 or 普通話

HongKong (with the English and the Cantonese)
(with the Portuguese and the Cantonese)

Singapore locally named huayu 华语 or 華語 (with the English, the Malayan and the Tamoul)
locally called national language, guoyu 国语 or 國語

Spaniard

The Spanish is the official language of:

Argentinian
Bolivia (at the sides of the Aymara and the Quechua)
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Spain (with the aranais*, the basque*, the catalan* and the galicien*)
the United States (Co-official with English in the New Mexico and with Puerto Rico)
Guatemala
(at the sides of the French)
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay (with the guarani)
(with the Quechua)
El Salvador
Venezuela
Uruguay
Puerto Rico

French

French

Belgium (with the néerlandais* and the allemand*)
Canada (with English)

New Brunswick (with English).
Nunavut (with English and the inuktitut.)
Ontario, province of Canada. (with English.)
Territories of the North-West (with English, the chipweyan, the cry, the slave of North, the slave of the South, the gwich' in, the inuinnaqtun, the Inuktitut, the Inuvialuktun and the Tlicho)
Yukon, (with English)

Burkina Faso
Burundi (with the kirundi)
Cameroun (with English)
(with the sango)
(with Arabic and the shikomor)
Djibouti (with the Arab)
France

Guadeloupe French Guiana Martinique Meeting Mayotte French Polynesia Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon Wallis-and-Futuna New Caledonia Clipperton southern and antarctic Lands French Scattered Islands

Gabon
(with the Spanish )
(with the Creole Haitian)
Luxembourg (with Luxemburgish and German)
India (Only in Pondichéry)
Italy (in the Valley-in Aoste, with the Italian )
Madagascar (with Madagascan)
Mali
Maurice (with English)
Swiss Monaco
Niger
(the German , the French , the Italian and the Romanche)

the canton of the the Jura, Neuchâtel and Vaud specifies in their Constitution that the French is official language; Geneva does not specify it however formally
Bern, Freiburg and the canton of the Valais have, according to their respective Constitution S, two Official languages each one, the French and the German

Chad (with l´arabe)
Togo with the éwé and the kabiyé
Rwanda (with the kinyarwanda and English)
Vanuatu (with English)
the Vatican (with Latin, Italian and German)

French is also used as a language of culture in the following countries:

Tunisia
Morocco
Mauritania
Lebanon
Laos
Kampuchea

Russian

The Russian is the official language of:

or Belarus (with the Belorusse )
Kazakhstan (with the Kazakh )
Russia
Ukraine (in autonomous republic of the Crimea)

Official languages in at least two countries

Albanian

The Albanian is an official language of:

Albania
Kosovo (with the Serb )
(with the Macedonian)

German

The German is the Official language of:

Germany
Austria
Belgium (for the the German-speaking Community of Belgium with the Dutch and the French)
Italy (in the province of Bolzano, with the Italian )
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg (after the Luxembourg, national language, and the French)
Swiss (with French, Italian and the romanche*)

17 of the 26 Swiss Cantons (only)
Grison (with the Italian and the romanche)
Bern, Freiburg , Were worth (with the French)

Bengali

The Bengali is the official language of:

Bangladesh
India (constitutional and one of the 32 official regional languages, official language in the following States:)

Western Bengal
Tripura (with the tripuri*)

Catalan

The Catalan is the official language of:

Co-official Andorra
Spain in Catalonia, with the Balearic Islands and Valence (Valencian)

Korean

The Korean is the official language of:

Greek

The Greek is the official language of:

Greece
Cyprus (with English and Turkish)

Italian

The Italian is the official language of:

Italy (with the German *, the French *, the Ladin * and the Sardinian * in certain areas)
Swiss (with the German , the French and the romanche*)

Grison Tessin
(with the German and the Romanche *)

San Marino
the Vatican (with the Latin )
Slovenia (with the Slovenien , in Istrie)
Croatia (with the Croatian , in Istrie)

Malayan

The Malayan is the official language of:

Brunei
Malaysia
Indonesia (under the name of Indonésien)
Singapore (with English, Chinese and the tamoul)

Netherlander

The Dutch is the official language of:

Belgium (with the allemand* and the français*)
Netherlands
Aruba
Dutch West Indies
Suriname

Urdu

The Ourdou is an official language of:

India (on a regional level, with English and the Hindi)
Pakistan

Roumanian

The Rumanian is the official language of the

and also official language in Voïvodina (in Serbia)

Portuguese

The Portuguese is the official language of:

Angola
Brazil
Cape Verde
China (on a regional level, with the Chinese Mandarin, national language)

Macao (with the Confined and Mandarin)

Eastern Timor (with the Tétoum)
Guinea-Bissau
Mozambique
Portugal

the Azores (P)
Madeira (P)

Sao Divide into volumes-and-Principle
India (on a regional level, with the Hindi, national language)

Goa
Daman and Diu (with the Hindi , the Marathi and the Gujarati)

Swede

The Swedish is an official language of:

Sweden
Finland (with Finnish)

Islands Åland (only suédophone) (an autonomous province under Finnish sovereignty)

Tamoul

The Tamoul is an official language of:

Singapore (with English, the Malayan one and Chinese)
India (on a regional level, with English and the Hindi)
Sri Lanka (with the Singhalese)

Official languages in only one country

Afrikaans

The Afrikaans is an official language in:

South Africa (with English, the ndébélé*, the sotho of Nord*, the sotho of Sud*, the swati*, the tsonga*, the tswana*, the venda*, the xhosa* and the zoulou*)

Amharique

The Amharique is the official language of:

Ethiopia

Armenian

The Armenian is the official language of:

Arménie
Haut-Karaback

Azeri

The Azeri is the official language of:

Azerbaïdjan

Bulgarian

The Bulgare is the official language of:

Bulgaria

Creole

The Créole Haitian is the official language of:

Haiti (with French)

Dane

The Danish is the official language of:

Denmark
Faroe Islands (with the Faroese )
Greenland (with parity with the inuit Greenlandic)

Indian millet

The Dari is the official language of:

Afghanistan (with the Pachto)

Dzongkha

The Dzongkha is the official language of:

Bhutan

Estonian

The Estonian is the official language of:

Estonia

Finnish

The Finnois is the official language of:

Finland (with Swedish)

Gilbertin

The Gilbertin is the official language of:

Kiribati with the English
it is also spoken on Rabi Fiji

Hebrew

The Hebrew is the official language of:

Israel (with Arabic)

Hungarian

The Hungarian is the official language of:

Hungary
One also finds minorities Hungarian profiting from rights recognized by the local authorities in Romania, in Slovakia, Serbia (Voïvodine).

Indonésien

The Indonésien , which is a form of Malayan, is the official language of:

Indonesia

Irishman

The Irish is the first official language of:

Ireland (with English like second official language)

Icelander

The Icelandic is the official language of:

Iceland

Japanese

The Japanese is the official language of:

Japan
Angaur (Palaos) Source: The CIA World Factbook 04/2007

Kazakh

The Kazakh is the official language of:

Kazakhstan

Khmer

The Khmer is the official language of:

Kampuchea

Lao

The lao is the official language of:

Laos

Latin

The Latin is the official language of:

the Vatican (the Holy See)

Latvian

The Latvian is the official language of:

Latvia

Lithuanian

The Lituanien is the official language of:

Lithuania

Luxembourger

The Luxembourg is since 1984 official language of the

Luxembourg (but French and German kept their official place there)

Maltese

The Maltais is the official language of:

Malta (with English)

Maori

The māori is an official language of:

New Zealand (with English)

Maori of the Cook Islands

The maori of the Islands Cook is an official language of:

Islands Cook (with English)

Nauruan

The Nauruan is the official language of:

Nauru (with English)

Nepalese

The Nepalese is the official language of:

Nepal

Norwegian

The Norwegian is the official language of:

Norway

Pachto

The Pachto is an official language of:

Afghanistan (with the Indian millet)

Filipino

The Filipino ( tagalog ) is the official language of:

Filipino (with English)

Persan

The Persan is the official language of:

Iran

Pole

The Polish is an official language of:

Poland

Singhalais

The Singhalais is the official language of:

Sri Lanka (with the tamoul)

Slovak

The Slovaque is an official language of:

Slovakia

Slovenien

The Slovenien is an official language of:

Slovenia

Czech

The Czech is an official language of:

Czech Republic

Thai

The Thai is the official language of:

Thailand

Turk

The Turkish is the official language of:

Turkey
Cyprus (with English and the Greek)

Turkish Republic of northern Cyprus (not recognized internationally)

Ukrainian

The Ukrainian is the official language of:

Ukraine

Vietnamese

The Vietnamese is the official language of:

Vietnam

Official languages with regional vocation

Occitan-Aranais

The Occitan - Aranais is a regional official language in:

Spain in (Co-official with the Catalan and the Spanish ) the

Basque

The Basque is a regional official language of:

Spain with and in one the northern third of (Co-official with Spanish) the

Clippings

The Western Frison is regional official language with the

Netherlands (Co-official in the Province of Frise and with Dutch)

Galician

The Galician is a regional official language of:

Spain in (Co-official with the Spanish )

Welshman

The Welsh is a regional official language of:

the United Kingdom

Wales (with English)

Hawaiien

The Hawaiien is a regional official language of:

the United States:

Hawaii (with English)

Inuktitut

The Inuktitut is a regional official language of:

Nunavut in Canada, with the English

Kurd

The Kurdish is a regional official language of:

Iraq (only in the Kurd regions, with Arabic)

Ladin

The Ladin is a regional official language of:

Italy (only in the Dolomites, with Italian)

Limbourgeois

The Limbourgeois is regional official language with:

Netherlands (in the province of the Limbourg, with Dutch)

Mirandais

The Mirandais is a regional official language of:

Portugal (Co-official in Trass-bone-Assemble with Portuguese)

Ndébélé

The Ndébélé is a regional official language of:

South Africa (with the Afrikaans, English, the sotho of Nord*, the sotho of Sud*, the swati*, the tsonga*, the tswana*, the venda*, the xhosa* and the zoulou*)

Romanche

The Romanche is national language since 1938, official language regional of:

Swiss (with German, French and Italian)

Grison (with German and Italian)

Sardinian

The Sardinian speeches are regional official languages (not single standard) of:

Italy (partially official in Sardinia, with Italian)

Shona

The Shona is an official language of:

Zimbabwe (with English and the sindebele)

Sindebele

The Sindebele is an official language of:

Zimbabwe (with English and the shona)

Sotho of North

The Sotho of North is a regional official language of:

South Africa (with the Afrikaans, English, the ndébélé*, the sotho of Sud*, the swati*, the tsonga*, the tswana*, the venda*, the xhosa* and the zoulou*)

Sotho of the South

The Sotho of the South ( sesotho ) is a regional official language of:

South Africa (with the Afrikaans, English, the ndébélé*, the sotho of Nord*, the swati*, the tsonga*, the tswana*, the venda*, the xhosa* and the zoulou*)

Swahili

The Swahili is an official language of:

Kenya (with English)
Tanzania (with English)

Swati

The Swati is a regional official language of:

South Africa (with the Afrikaans, English, the ndébélé*, the sotho of Nord*, the sotho of Sud*, the tsonga*, the tswana*, the venda*, the xhosa* and the zoulou*)

Tsonga

The Tsonga is a regional official language of:

South Africa (with the Afrikaans, English, the ndébélé*, the sotho of Nord*, the sotho of Sud*, the swati*, the tswana*, the venda*, the xhosa* and the zoulou*)

Tswana

The Tswana is a regional official language of:

South Africa (with the Afrikaans, English, the ndébélé*, the sotho of Nord*, the sotho of Sud*, the swati*, the tsonga*, the venda*, the xhosa* and the zoulou*)

Venda

The Venda is a regional official language of:

South Africa (with the Afrikaans, English, the ndébélé*, the sotho of Nord*, the sotho of Sud*, the swati*, the tsonga*, the tswana*, the xhosa* and the zoulou*)

Xhosa

The Xhosa is a regional official language of:

South Africa (with the Afrikaans, English, the ndébélé*, the sotho of Nord*, the sotho of Sud*, the swati*, the tsonga*, the tswana*, the venda* and the zoulou*)

Zulu

The Zoulou is a regional official language of:

South Africa (with the Afrikaans, English, the ndébélé*, the sotho of Nord*, the sotho of Sud*, the swati*, the tsonga*, the tswana*, the venda* and the xhosa*)

See too

List of the countries of the world
Official languages of the United Nations
Official languages of the European Union

External bonds

French public Official list (with the Microsoft format), with short names and long names, names of capitals and languages

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