List of official languages

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.

Abkhaz: Afar: Afrikaans: Aja-Gbe: Akan (Akuapem Twi, Asante Twi, Fante): Albanian: Amharic: Anii: Arabic (see also List of countries where Arabic is an official language): Araona: Armenian: Assamese: Aymara: Azerbaijani: Balanta: Bambara: Bariba: Basque: Bassari: Bedik: Belarusian: Bengali: Berber: Biali: Bislama: Boko: Bomu: Bosnian: Bozo: Buduma: Bulgarian: Burmese: Cantonese: Catalan: Chinese, Mandarin: Chichewa: Chirbawe (Sena): Comorian Corsican : Croatian: Czech: Dagaare: Dagbani: Dangme Danish: Dari: Dendi: Dhivehi: Dioula: Dogon: Dutch: Dzongkha: English (see also List of countries where English is an official language): Estonian: Ewe-Gbe: Faroese: Fijian: Filipino: Finnish: Fon-Gbe: Foodo: Formosan: French (see also List of countries where French is an official language): Fula: Ga: Gàidhlig: Gbe: Gen-Gbe: Georgian: German: Gonja: Gourmanché Greek: Guaraní: Gujarati: Haitian Creole: Hakka: Hassaniya: Hausa: Hebrew: Hindi: Hiri Motu: Hungarian: Igbo: Icelandic: Indonesian: Irish: Italian: Japanese: Javanese: Jola: Kabye: Kalanga: Kannada: Kanuri: Kasem: Kazakh: Khmer: Kinyarwanda: Kirundi: Kissi "Koisan" (Tshuwau): Korean: Korean Sign Language: Kpelle: Kurdish: Kyrgyz: Lao: Latin: Latvian: Lithuanian: Lukpa: Luxembourgish: Macedonian: Malagasy: Malay: Malinke: Maltese: Mamara: Manding (Mandinka, Malinke): Mandinka: Mandjak: Mankanya: Manx Gaelic: Māori: Marshallese: Mauritian Creole Mbelime: Meitei (officially known as Manipuri) Mongolian: Montenegrin: Mossi: Nambya: Nateni: Nauruan Ndau: Ndebele (Northern): Ndebele (Southern): Nepali: New Zealand Sign Language: Noon: Northern Sotho: Norwegian: Nzema: Oniyan: Oriya Oromo: Ossetian: Palauan: Papiamento: Pashto: Persian: Polish: Portuguese: Punjabi: Quechua: Romanian: Romansh: Russian: Safen: Samoan Sango Sena: Scots Serbian: Serer: Seychellois Creole Shona: Sinhala: Slovak: Slovene: Somali: Songhay-Zarma: Soninke: Sotho: South African Sign Language Spanish: Susu: Swahili: Swati: Swedish: Syenara: Taiwan Sign Language: Taiwanese Hokkien: Tajik: Tagalog: Tamasheq: Tamil: Tammari: Tasawaq: Tebu: Telugu: Tetum: Thai: Tigrinya: Tok Pisin: Toma: Tonga: Tongan Tsonga: Tswana: Turkish: Turkmen: Tuvaluan Ukrainian: Urdu: Uzbek: Venda: Vietnamese: Waama: Waci-Gbe: Wamey: Welsh: Wolof: Xhosa: Xwela-Gbe: Yobe: Yom: Yoruba: Zimbabwean sign language: Zulu: This is a ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are de jure or de facto official, co-official, an administrative or working language.

[66] Abaza: Adyghe: Aghul: Aklanon: Albanian: Altay: Arabic: Aranese see Occitan Armenian: Aromanian: Assamese: Avar: Azeri: Balkar: Bashkir: Basque: Bengali: Bikol: Bosnian: Buryat: Cantonese Chinese: Catalan: Cebuano: Chavacano: Chechen: Cherkess: Cherokee: Chipewyan: Chukchi: Chuvash: Cree: Crimean Tatar Croatian: Dargwa: Dolgan: Dutch: English: Erzya: Even: Evenki: Faroese: Finnish: French: Frisian (West): Friulian: Gagauz: Galician: German: Greek: Guaraní: Gujarati: Gwich'in: Hawaiian: Hiligaynon: Hindi: Hungarian: Ibanag: Ilocano: Ingush: Inuinnaqtun: Inuktitut: Inuvialuktun: Irish: Italian: Ivatan: Japanese: Kabardian: Kalaallisut: Kalmyk: Kannada: Kapampangan: Karachay: Karelian: Kashmiri: Kazakh: Khakas: Khanty: Kinaray-a: Komi: Komi-Permyak: Korean: Kumyk: Kyrgyz: Lak: Lezgian: Macedonian Maguindanao: Malayalam: Mansi: Maranao: Marathi: Mari (Hill and Meadow): Mayan: Meitei (officially known as Manipuri): Mi'kmaq: Moksha: Mongolian: Náhuatl: Nenets: Nepali: Nogai: Occitan: Odia: Ossetic (Digor and Iron dialects): Pangasinan: Portuguese: Punjabi: Romanian: Russian.

Russian is fixed as a state language in the Constitutions of the republics of the Russian Federation: Rusyn: Rutul: Sakha: Sambal: Sami: Sanskrit: Saraiki Sarikoli: Selkup: Serbian: Sindhi: North and South Slavey: Slovak: Slovene: Spanish: Surigaonon: Tabasaran: Tagalog: Tahitian: Tamil: Tat: Tatar: Tausug: Telugu: Tibetan: Tłįchǫ: Tsakhur: Tswana: Turkish: Tuvan: Udmurt: Urdu: Uyghur: Veps: Vietnamese: Waray: Welsh: Yakan: Yiddish: Yukaghir: Zhuang: