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Contents 1 Official languages of supra-national institutions 2 Official languages of sovereign countries 3 Ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are official 3.1 In Africa: 3.2 In the Americas: 3.3 In Asia: 3.4 In Europe: 3.5 In Oceania: 3.6 By number of continents: 4 Official languages of subnational entities 5 See also 6 References

[edit] Official languages of supra-national institutions

See List of official languages by institution.

[edit] Official languages of sovereign countries

There are 112 languages in this category.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Afrikaans:

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

Albanian:

• Republic of Albania
• Republic of Kosovo (with Serbian and English; Turkish is official in the Prizren District only)
• Montenegro (with Montenegrin, Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian)

Amharic:

• Ethiopia

Arabic:

• Algeria
• Bahrain
• Chad (with French)
• Comoros (with French and Comorian)
• Djibouti (with French)
• Egypt
• Eritrea (with Tigrignan)
• Iraq
• Israel (with Hebrew)
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Libya
• Mauritania
• Morocco
• Oman
• Palestinian Authority
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Somalia (with Somali)
• Sudan
• Syria
• Tunisia
• United Arab Emirates
• Western Sahara
• Yemen

Armenian:

• Armenia

Assamese:

• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Assam

Aymara:

• Bolivia (with Spanish and Quechua)
• Peru (with Spanish and Quechua)

Azeri:

• Azerbaijan

Basque:

• Part of Spain (with Spanish)

Belarusian:

• Belarus (with Russian)

Bengali:

• Bangladesh
• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Tripura
  • West Bengal

Bislama:

• Vanuatu [3]

Bosnian:

• Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Croatian, Serbian)
• Montenegro (with Montenegrin, Serbian, Albanian and Croatian)
• Serbia (in the region of Sandžak)

Bulgarian:

• Bulgaria

Burmese:

• Myanmar

Catalan:

• Andorra
• Part of Spain (with Spanish)

Chinese (see also Sinitic languages):

• Republic of China in Taiwan (Mandarin is spoken, Traditional Chinese is written; Mandarin is designated as national language)
• People's Republic of China (varieties of Chinese languages are spoken, Simplified Chinese is written, Mandarin is designated as national language)
  • Hong Kong (Cantonese is spoken de facto, Traditional Chinese is written; co-official with English)
  • Macau (Cantonese is spoken de facto, Traditional Chinese is written; co-official with Portuguese)
• Singapore (Mandarin is spoken, Simplified Chinese is written.) (With English, Malay and Tamil)

Croatian

• some municipalities in Austria (with German)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Bosnian, Serbian)
• Croatia
• part of Serbia
  • Vojvodina (with Serbian, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak and Ruthenian)
• Montenegro (with Montenegrin, Serbian, Bosnian and Albanian)

Czech:

• Czech Republic

Danish

• Denmark
  • Faroe Islands (with Faroese)
  • Greenland (with Kalaallisut)

Dari:

• Afghanistan (with Pashto)

Dhivehi:

• Maldives

Dutch:

• Belgium (sole official language in Flanders, with French in Brussels)
• The Netherlands (sole official language in every province except Frisland, where West Frisian is co-official)
  • Aruba (with Papiamento)
  • Netherlands Antilles (with English and Papiamento)
• Suriname

Dzongkha:

• Bhutan

English (see also List of countries where English is an official language):

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Australia (de facto official language)
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Botswana (but the national language is Tswana)
• Canada (federally, with French)
  • New Brunswick (with French)
  • Nova Scotia
  • Nunavut (with French, Inuktitut, and Inuinnaqtun)
  • Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, French, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Slavey (North and South) and Tłįchǫ)
  • Yukon (with French)
• Cameroon (with French)
• Dominica (with French creole)
• Fiji (with Bau Fijian and Hindustani)
• part of the People's Republic of China
  • Hong Kong (with Chinese)
• The Gambia
• Ghana
• Grenada (with French creole)
• Guyana
• India (with 22 other official languages)
• Republic of Ireland (with Irish)
• Jamaica
• Kenya (with Swahili)
• Kiribati
• Lesotho (with Sotho)
• Liberia
• Madagascar (with Malagasy and English)
• Malawi (with Chichewa)
• Malta (with Maltese)
• Mauritius (with French)
• Micronesia
• Namibia^[1]
• Netherlands Antilles (with Dutch and Papiamento)
• New Zealand (with Māori and New Zealand Sign Language)
• Nigeria
• Pakistan (with Urdu as the national language)
• Philippines (with Filipino)
• Palau (with Palauan and Japanese)
• Papua New Guinea (with Tok Pisin and Motu)
• Rwanda (with French and Kinyarwanda)
• St. Kitts and Nevis
• St. Lucia (with French creole)
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines (with French creole)
• Samoa (with Samoan)
• Seychelles (with Creole, French)
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore (with Chinese, Malay, Tamil)
• Solomon Islands
• South Africa (with Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
• Swaziland (with Swati)
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tuvalu
• Uganda (with Swahili)
• United Kingdom (de facto)
• United States (de facto)
• Vanuatu (with Bislama and French)
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Estonian:

• Estonia

Fijian

• Fiji (with English and Hindustani)

Filipino:

• Philippines (with English)

Finnish:

• Finland (with Swedish)

French (see also List of countries where French is an official language):

• Belgium (with Dutch and German)
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi (with Kirundi)
• Cameroon (with English)
• Canada (with English)
  • New Brunswick (with English)
  • Quebec
  • Nunavut (with English, Inuktitut, and Inuinnaqtun)
  • Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, English, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Slavey (North and South) and Tłįchǫ)
  • Yukon (with English)
• Central African Republic
• Chad (with Arabic)
• Comoros (with Arabic and Comorian)
• Congo-Brazzaville
• Congo-Kinshasa
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Djibouti (with Arabic)
• Dominica (with English)
• Equatorial Guinea (with Spanish)
• France
  • French Guyana
  • French Polynesia
  • French Loyalty Islands
  • French Southern and Antarctic Lands
  • Scattered islands in the Indian Ocean
  • Guadeloupe
  • Martinique
  • Mayotte
  • New Caledonia
  • Réunion
  • Saint Barthélemy
  • Saint Martin
  • Saint Pierre et Miquelon
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • (Adelie land)
  • (Clipperton Island)
• Gabon
• Grenada (with English)
• Guernsey (with English)
• Guinea
• Haiti (with Haitian Creole)
• part of Italy
  • the Aosta Valley (with Italian)
• Jersey (with English)
• Luxembourg (with German and Luxembourgish)
• Madagascar (with Malagasy and English)
• Mali
• Mauritius
• Monaco
• Niger
• Rwanda (with English and Kinyarwanda)
• Senegal
• Seychelles (with English)
• Saint Lucia (with English)
• Switzerland (with German, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch)
  • Geneva
  • Vaud
  • Jura
  • Neuchâtel
  • Fribourg (with German)
  • Bern (with German)
  • Valais (with German)
• Togo
• Vanuatu (with Bislama and English)

Frisian (West):

• The Netherlands (with Dutch)

Gagauz:

• Moldova (with Moldovan, Russian and Ukrainian)

Georgian:

• Georgia

German:

• Austria
• Belgium (with Dutch and French)
• Germany
• Liechtenstein
• Luxembourg (with French and Luxembourgish)
• Italy
  • Province of Bolzano-Bozen (together with Italian and Ladin)
• Switzerland(with French, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch)
  • 17 of the 26 cantons (monolingually German)
  • Graubünden (with Italian and Romansh)
  • Bern (with French)
  • Fribourg (with French)
  • Valais (with French)

Greek:

• Greece
• Cyprus (with Turkish)

Guaraní

• Paraguay (with Spanish)

Gujarati:

• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Dadra and Nagar Haveli
  • Daman and Diu
  • Gujarat

Haitian Creole:

• Haiti (with French)

Hebrew:

• Israel (with Arabic)

Hindi

• India (with 22 other official languages)
• 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 Slovakia
• part of Serbia
  • Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Slovak and Ruthenian)
• part of Romania
• part of Ukraina
• part of Austria

Icelandic:

• Iceland

Indonesian:

• Indonesia

Irish Gaelic is the national and first official language of:

• Ireland (with English)

Italian:

• Eritrea
• Italy
• Switzerland (with German and French)
  • Ticino
  • Graubünden (with German and Rhaeto-Romansh)
• San Marino
• Vatican City (with Latin)
• part of Croatia
  • Istria county (with Croatian)
• part of Slovenia
  • Izola, Koper and Piran municipalities (with Slovene)

Japanese:

• Japan (de facto)
• Part of Palau
  • Angaur (with Angaur and English)

Kannada:

• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Karnataka

Kashmiri:

• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Jammu and Kashmir

Kazakh:

• Kazakhstan (with Russian)
• part of the People's Republic of China
  • Ili, with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Barkol, with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Mori, with Chinese (Mandarin)

Khmer:

• Cambodia

Korean:

• Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• Republic of Korea
• part of the People's Republic of China with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Changbai (Jangbaek, Changbaek)
  • Yanbian (Yeonbyeon,Yŏnbyŏn)

Kurdish:

• Iraq (with Arabic)

Kyrgyz:

• Kyrgyzstan (with Russian)
• part of the People's Republic of China
  • Kizilsu (with Chinese (Mandarin))

Lao:

• Laos

Latvian:

• Latvia

Lithuanian:

• Lithuania

Luxembourgish:

• Luxembourg (with French and German)

Macedonian:

• Republic of Macedonia
• part of Albania
  • Korçë (with Albanian)

Malagasy:

• Madagascar (with French and English)

Malay:

• Malaysia
• Brunei
• Singapore (with English, Chinese and Tamil)

Malayalam:

• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Kerala
  • Pondicherry
  • Lakshadweep

Maltese:

• Malta (with English)
  • Kunsill Nazzjonali ta' l-Ilsien Malti
  • Akkademja tal-Malti

Māori:

• New Zealand (with English and New Zealand Sign Language)

Marathi:

• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Maharashtra

Moldovan (identical to Romanian according to the law of Moldova^[2])

• Moldova

Mongolian

• Mongolia
• part of the People's Republic of China
  • Inner Mongolia, with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Haixi, with Tibetan and Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Bortala, with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Bayin'gholin, with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Dorbod, with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Qian Gorlos, with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Harqin Left, with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Fuxin, with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Weichang, with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Subei, with Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Henan, with Chinese (Mandarin)

Montenegrin:

• Montenegro (with Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian and Croatian)

Ndebele:

• South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)

Nepali:

• Nepal
• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Sikkim
  • West Bengal

New Zealand Sign Language:

• New Zealand (alongside Māori and English)

Northern Sotho:

• South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)

Norwegian:

• Norway (two official written forms - Bokmål and Nynorsk)

Oriya:

• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Orissa

Papiamento

• Aruba (with Dutch)
• Netherlands Antilles (with English and Dutch)

Pashto:

• Afghanistan (with Dari)

Persian:

• Iran
• Afghanistan (called Dari-Persian in Afghanistan) (with Pashto)
• Tajikistan (called Tajiki-Persian in Tajikistan)

Polish:

• Poland

Portuguese:

• Angola
• Brazil
• Cape Verde
• East Timor (with Tetum)
• Equatorial Guinea (since July 13, 2007) (with Spanish and French)
• Guinea-Bissau
• part of the People's Republic of China
  • Macau (with Chinese)
• Mozambique
• Portugal
• São Tomé and Príncipe

Punjabi:

• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Punjab
  • Delhi

Quechua

• Bolivia (with Spanish and Aymara)
• Peru (with Spanish and Aymara)

Romanian:

• Romania
• Moldova (official called Moldovan, although identical to Romanian according to the law of Moldova^[2])
• part of Serbia
  • Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak and Ruthenian)

Rhaeto-Romansh:

• Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian)
  • Graubünden (with German and Italian)

Russian:

• Russia (in some regions together with regional languages)
• Belarus (with Belarusian)
• Kazakhstan (with Kazakh)
• Kyrgyzstan (with Kyrgyz)
• Moldova (with Moldovan, Ukrainian and Gagauz)

Sanskrit:

• India (with 22 other official languages)

Serbian:

• Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Bosnian, Croatian)
• Serbia
• Montenegro (with Montenegrin, Bosnian, Albanian and Croatian)

Sindhi:

• India (with 22 other official languages)
• Pakistan (Official language in the Province of Sindh along with Urdu and English)

Sinhala:

• Sri Lanka (with Tamil, and with English as a link language)

Slovak

• Slovakia
• part of Serbia
  • Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian, Romanian and Ruthenian)

Slovene:

• Slovenia
• part of Italy
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia (with Italian)
• part of Austria
  • Carinthia (with German)

Somali:

• Somalia

Sotho:

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

Spanish:

• Argentina
• Bolivia (with Aymara and Quechua)
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea (with French and Portuguese)
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay (with Guaraní)
• Peru (with Aymara and Quechua)
• Spain (Aranese, Basque, Catalan, and Galician are co-official in some regions)
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Swahili:

• Kenya (with English)
• Tanzania (de facto)
• Uganda (since 2005; with English)

Swati:

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

Swedish:

• Sweden (de facto)
• Finland (with Finnish)
  • Åland (monolingually Swedish) (an autonomous province under Finnish sovereignty)

Tajik:

• Tajikistan
• part of the People's Republic of China
  • Taxkorgan (with Chinese (Mandarin))

Tamil:

• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  • Pondicherry
  • Tamil Nadu

• Singapore (with English, Chinese and Malay)
• Sri Lanka (with Sinhala, and with English as a link language)

Telugu:

• India (with 22 other official languages)
  • Andhra Pradesh
  • Pondicherry

Tetum:

• East Timor (with Portuguese)

Thai:

• Thailand

Tok Pisin:

• Papua New Guinea (with English and Motu)

Tsonga:

• South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)

Tswana:

• Botswana (with English)
• South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)

Turkish:

• Turkey
• Cyprus (with Greek)
• Northern Cyprus

Turkmen:

• Turkmenistan

Ukrainian:

• Ukraine
• Moldova (with Moldovan, Russian and Gagauz)

Urdu: *Republic of India (with 22 other official languages)

• • Indian Occupied Kashmir
  • Delhi Territory
  • Uttar Pradesh state
• Pakistan (with English, Pothowari, Punjabi, Kashmiri (Koshur), Pashto, Sindhi, Siraiki, Balochi and Brahui)
• Fiji (with Englishand Bau Fijian; known constitutionally as Hindustani as an umbrella term to cover Urdu, as well as Hindi.)

Uzbek:

• Uzbekistan

Venda:

• South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Xhosa, Zulu)

Vietnamese:

• Vietnam

Welsh:

• United Kingdom (Wales) (with English)

Xhosa:

• South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Zulu)

Yiddish:

• Russia (only in Jewish Autonomous Oblast, with Russian)

Zulu:

• South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa)

[edit] Ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are official

• 55 countries: English
  • largest: United States, India, Nigeria
• 29 countries: French
  • largest: France, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Canada
• 24 countries: Arabic
  • largest: Egypt, Sudan, Algeria
• 20 countries: Spanish
  • largest: Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Argentina
• 10 countries: Portuguese
  • largest: Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique, Angola
• 7 countries: German
• 4 countries: Albanian, Italian, Russian
• 3 countries: Chinese, Dutch, Malay, Persian, Serbian, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish, Urdu, Hungarian.
• 2 countries: Aymara, Bengali, Croatian, Greek, Hindi, Korean, Quechua, Romanian, Sotho, Swati, Swedish, Tswana,
• 1 country: numerous languages

[edit] In Africa:

• 21 countries: French
• 19 countries: English
• 12 countries: Arabic
• 6 countries: Portuguese
• 3 countries: Swahili
• 2 countries: Sotho, Swati, Tswana
• 1 country: numerous languages

[edit] In the Americas:

• 20 countries: Spanish
• 14 countries: English
• 2 countries: Aymara, French, Quechua
• 1 country: Portuguese (among numerous minor languages)
• 1 country Dutch

[edit] In Asia:

• 12 countries: Arabic
• 4 countries: English
• 3 countries: Malay, Persian, Tamil
• 2 countries: Bengali, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Urdu, Nepali
• 1 country: numerous languages

[edit] In Europe:

• 6 countries: German
• 5 countries: French
• 4 countries: Albanian, Italian
• 3 countries: English, Serbian, Turkish, Hungarian.
• 2 countries: Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Romanian, Russian, Swedish,
• 1 country: numerous languages

[edit] In Oceania:

• 12 countries: English
• 1 country: numerous languages

[edit] By number of continents:

• All 6 continents (besides Antarctica)

  • English (Africa: 19 countries; North America: 13 countries; Oceania: 12 countries; Asia: 4 countries; Europe: 3 countries; South America: 1 country)

  5 continents

  • Portuguese (Africa: 6 countries; South America: 1 country; Europe: 1 country; Asia: 1 country; Oceania: 1 country)
  • French (Africa: 21 countries; Europe: 5 countries; North America: 2 countries;South America: 1 country; Oceania: 1 country)

  4 continents

  • Spanish (South America: 9 countries; North America: 8 countries; Europe: 1 country; Africa: 1 country)

  2 continents

  • Arabic (Africa: 12 countries; Asia: 12 countries)
  • Russian (Europe: 2 countries; Asia: 2 countries)
  • Dutch (Europe: 2 countries; The Americas: 1 country)
  • Urdu (Asia: 2 countries; Oceania: 1 country)
  • Hindi (Asia: 1 country; Oceania: 1 country)
  • Japanese (Asia: 1 country; Oceania: 1 country)
  • Italian (Europe: 1 country; Africa: 1 country)
  • Greek (Europe:1 country; Asia: 1 country)

  1 continent

• numerous other languages, of which German (6 countries).

[edit] Official languages of subnational entities

Aranese see Occitan

Armenian:

• Nagorno Karabagh

Basque:

• Basque Autonomous Community (with Spanish)
• Navarre (in some areas with Spanish)

Cantonese Chinese:

• Hong Kong (for Chinese language, both Cantonese and Mandarin are spoken de facto; co-official with English)
• Macau (for Chinese language, both Cantonese and Mandarin are spoken de facto; co-official with Portuguese)

Catalan:

• parts of Spain
  • Balearic Islands (with Spanish)
  • Catalonia (with Spanish)
  • Valencia (named as Valencian, with Spanish)

Chipewyan:

• Northwest Territories (with Cree, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Cree:

• Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Tłįchǫ:

• Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, and South Slavey)

English:

• parts of Canada:

See also:Official language by province

• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Manitoba
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• Nova Scotia
• Ontario
• Prince Edward Island
• Saskatchewan
• New Brunswick (with French)
• Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, French, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Slavey (North and South) and Tłįchǫ)
• Nunavut (with Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, and French)
• Yukon (with French)

• parts of the United States. See English-only movement. English is an official language in the following states and territories:
  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Arkansas
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Hawaii (with Hawaiian language)
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana (with French)
  • Massachusetts
  • Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Montana
  • Nebraska
  • New Hampshire
  • New Mexico (with Spanish)
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Puerto Rico (with Spanish)
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Texas
  • Tennessee
  • U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Utah
  • Virginia
  • West Virginia
  • Wyoming

Faroese:

• Faroe Islands (with Danish)

French:

• parts of Canada

see also Official language by province

• New Brunswick (co-official with English)
• Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, English, Gwich’in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Slavey (North and South) and Tłįchǫ)
• Nunavut (with English, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut)
• Quebec
• Yukon (with English)

• Louisiana (co-official with English in the state of Louisiana)
• Pondicherry (co-official with Tamil in the Union Territory of Pondicherry. Also Telugu and Malayalam are its regional official languages)

Galician:

• part of Spain
  • Galicia (with Spanish)

Gwich'in:

• Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Hawaiian:

• Hawai'i (co-official with English in the state of Hawai'i)

Inuinnaqtun:

• Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))
• Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuktitut)

Inuktitut:

• Greenland (with Danish)
• Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuinnaqtun)
• Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Inuvialuktun:

• Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Mazandarani:

• Iran
  • Mazandaran

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)

North and South Slavey:

• Northwest Territories (with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Innuinaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))

Spanish:

• United States (co-official with English in New Mexico)
• Puerto Rico (with English)

Tahitian:

• French Polynesia (with French)

Tibetan:

• Tibet Autonomous Region (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Aba (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Garzê (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Diqing (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Wenshan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Gannan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Haibai (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Hainan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Huangnan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Golog (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Gyêgu (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Haixi (with Mongolian and Chinese (Mandarin))
• Muli (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Tianzhu (with Chinese (Mandarin))

Tswana:

• South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)

Uyghur:

• Xinjiang (with Chinese (Mandarin))

Vietnamese:

• Việt Nam
• Part of Australia^{[citation needed]}
• Part of Cambodia
• Part of Canada^{[citation needed]}
• Part of China
• Part of France^{[citation needed]}
• Part of Laos
• Part of United States^{[citation needed]}

Yiddish:

• Part of Russia
  • Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Zhuang:

• Guangxi (with Chinese (Mandarin))
• Lianshan (with Chinese (Mandarin))

[edit] See also

• List of official languages by state
• Official language
• National language
• List of official languages by institution

[edit] References

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