[1] The two official languages have fewer speakers than Chadian Arabic.

[citation needed] Standard Arabic is spoken by around 615,000 speakers.

[1] French is widely spoken in the main cities such as N'Djamena and by most men in the south of the country.

[3] In April 2005 Chad joined the Arab League as an observer, before submitting an application to join the Arab League as a member state on 25 March 2014, [4] which was still pending in 2025.

(Ethnologue lists 54 Chadic languages in Chad altogether, many of them small.)