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Official languages of supra-national institutions

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

Official languages of subnational entities

See also

Official languages of supra-national institutions

See List of official languages by institution.
==Official languages of sovereign countries==
There are approximately 110 languages in this category.
:

'Afrikaans':

★ South Africa (with English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
'Albanian':

★ Republic of Albania

★ Republic of Macedonia
'Amharic':

★ Ethiopia
'Arabic':

★ Algeria

★ Bahrain

★ Chad (with French)

★ Comoros (with French and Comorian)

★ Djibouti (with French)

★ Egypt

★ Eritrea (with Tigrignan)

★ Iraq (with Kurdish)

★ 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

'Belarusian':

★ Belarus (with Russian)
'Bengali':

★ Bangladesh

★ India (with 22 other official languages)

★
★ Tripura

★
★ West Bengal
'Bislama':

★ Vanuatu [1]
'Bosnian':

★ Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Croatian, Serbian)
'Bulgarian':

★ Bulgaria
'Burmese':

★ Myanmar

'Catalan':

★ Andorra

★ Part of Spain (with Spanish)
'Chinese' (see also List of Chinese dialects):

★ People's Republic of China (for most areas, Mandarin is spoken, Simplified Chinese is written)

★
★ 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)

★ Republic of China (Taiwan) (Mandarin Chinese, Min Nan (Ban lam) and Hakka is spoken, Traditional Chinese is written)

★ Singapore (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)
'Czech':

★ Czech Republic

'Danish'

★ Denmark

★
★ Faroe Islands (with Faroese)

★
★ Greenland (with Kalaallisut)
'Dari':

★ Afghanistan (with Pashto)
'Dhivehi':

★ Maldives
'Dutch':

★ Belgium (with French and German)

★ The Netherlands (with Frisian)

★ Suriname
'Dzongkha':

★ Bhutan

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

★ Antigua and Barbuda

★ Australia

★ Bahamas

★ Barbados

★ Belize

★ Botswana (but the national language is Tswana)

★ Canada (federally, with French)

★
★ New Brunswick (with French)

★
★ Nova Scotia (with French)

★
★ Nunavut (with French, Inuktitut, and Inuvialuktun)

★
★ Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, French, Gwichʼin, Inuktitut, and Slavey)

★
★ 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 Kiswahili)

★ Kiribati

★ Lesotho (with Sotho)

★ Liberia

★ Malawi (with Chichewa)

★ Malaysia (with Malay)

★ Malta (with Maltese)

★ Mauritius (with French)

★ Micronesia

★ Namibia

★ New Zealand (with Māori and New Zealand Sign Language)

★ Nigeria

★ Pakistan (with Urdu as the national language)

★ Palau (with Palauan and Japanese)

★ Papua New Guinea (with Tok Pisin and Motu)

★ Philippines (but the national language is Filipino)

★ 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 since 2005)

★ United Kingdom

★ 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)

★
★ Nova Scotia (with English)

★
★ Quebec

★
★ Nunavut (with English, Inuktitut, and Inuvialuktun)

★
★ Northwest Territories (with Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, English, Gwichʼin, Inuktitut, and Slavey)

★
★ Yukon (with English)

★ Central African Republic

★ Chad (with Ara)

★ 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)

★ 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, Bern, Valais (with German)

★ Togo

★ Vanuatu (with Bislama and English)
'Frisian':

★ The Netherlands (with Dutch)

'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, Fribourg, 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 Slovenia

★ part of Serbia

★
★ Vojvodina (with Croatian, Serbian, Romanian, Slovak and Ruthenian)

'Icelandic':

★ Iceland
'Indonesian':

★ Indonesia
'Irish Gaelic' is the national and first official language of:

★ Ireland (with English)
'Italian':

★ Italy

★ Switzerland (with German and French)

★
★ Ticino

★
★ Graubünden (with German and Rhaeto-Romansh)

★ San Marino

★ Vatican City

★ 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':

★ North Korea

★ South Korea

★ part of the People's Republic of China

★
★ Changbai and Yanbian, with Chinese (Mandarin)
'Kurdish':

★ Iraq (with Arabic)
'Kyrgyz':

★ Kyrgyzstan (with Russian)

★ part of the People's Republic of China

★
★ Kizilsu (with Chinese (Mandarin))

'Lao':

★ Laos
'Latin':

★ Vatican City
'Latvian':

★ Latvia
'Lithuanian':

★ Lithuania
'Luxembourgish':

★ Luxembourg (with French and German)

'Macedonian':

★ Republic of Macedonia

★ Republic of Albania
'Malagasy':

★ Madagascar (with French)
'Malay':

★ Malaysia

★ Brunei

★ Singapore

★ Indonesia ([Indonesian] is Malay language with different name and a bit different word (vocabulary) choice in daily use)
'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' ''(asserted by Moldova state representatives to be distinct from Romanian; most linguists remain skeptical):''

★ 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)

'Ndebele':

★ South Africa (with Afrikaans, English, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)
'Nepali':

★ Nepal
'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

'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)

★ 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':

★ Moldova ''(officially named Moldovan, but disputed by most professional linguist; called Romanian in the everyday life as well as schools)''

★ Romania

★ 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 (with regional sub-dialects)

★ Belarus (with Belarusian)

★ Kazakhstan (with Kazakh)

★ Kyrgyzstan (with Kyrgyz)

'Sanskrit':

★ India (with 22 other official languages)
'Serbian':

★ Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Bosnian, Croatian)

★ Serbia

★ Montenegro
'Sindhi':

★ India (with 22 other official languages)
'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)

★ Ceuta

★ Chile

★ Colombia

★ Costa Rica

★ Cuba

★ Dominican Republic

★ Eastern Island

★ Ecuador

★ El Salvador

★ Equatorial Guinea (with French)

★ Guatemala

★ Honduras

★ Melilla

★ Mexico

★ Nicaragua

★ Panama

★ Paraguay (with Guaraní)

★ Peru (with Quechua)

★ Puerto Rico

★ Spain (Aranese, Basque, Catalan and Galician are co-official in some regions)

★ Uruguay

★ Venezuela

★ Western Sahara
'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)

★
★ 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)
'Turkmen':

★ Turkmenistan

'Ukrainian':

★ Ukraine
'Urdu':

★ India (with 22 other official languages)

★
★ Jammu and Kashmir

★
★ Delhi

★
★ Uttar Pradesh

★ 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)


'Zulu':

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

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

• 52 countries: English
  
  - largest: USA,Pakistan, Nigeria
  
• 29 countries: French
  
  - largest: France, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Canada
  
• 24 countries: Spanish
  
  - largest: Mexico, Spain, Colombia
  
• 24 countries: Arabic
  
  - largest: Egypt, Sudan, Algeria
  
• 8 countries: Portuguese
  
  - largest: Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola
  
• 6 countries: German
  
• 4 countries: Italian,
  Russian
  
• 3 countries: Chinese, Dutch, Malay,
  Persian, Serbian,
  Swahili, Tamil,
  Urdu
  
• 2 countries: Albanian, Aymara,
  Bengali,
  Croatian,
  Greek, Hindi,
  Japanese, Korean,
  Quechua, Romanian, Sotho,
  Swati,
  Swedish, Tswana, Turkish
  
• 1 country: numerous languages
  

In Africa:

21 countries: French

19 countries: English

12 countries: Arabic

5 countries: Portuguese

3 countries: Swahili

2 countries: Spanish, Sotho, Swati, Tswana

1 country: numerous languages

In the Americas:

20 countries: Spanish

14 countries: English

2 countries: Aymara, French, Quechua

1 country: Portuguese (among numerous minor languages)

In Asia:

12 countries: Arabic

4 countries: English

3 countries: Malay,
Persian,
Tamil

2 countries: Bengali, Chinese,
Korean, Russian,
Urdu

1 country: numerous languages

In Europe:

6 countries: German

5 countries: French

4 countries: Italian

3 countries: English, Serbian

2 countries: Spanish, Albanian,
Croatian, Dutch,
Greek, Romanian,
Russian,
Swedish, Turkish

1 country: numerous languages

In Oceania:

• 12 countries: English
  
• 1 country: numerous languages
  

By number of continents:

• All 5 continents:
  
  
  
  • English (Africa: 19 countries; The Americas: 14 countries; Oceania: 12 countries; Asia: 4 countries; Europe: 3 countries)
    
  
  
• 4 continents:
  
  
  
  • French (Africa: 21 countries; Europe: 5 countries; The Americas: 2 countries; Oceania: 1 country)
    
  • Portuguese (Africa: 5 countries; The Americas: 1 country; Europe: 1 country; Asia: 1 country)
    
  
  
• 3 continents:
  
  
  
  • Spanish (The Americas: 20 countries; Europe: 2 countries; Africa: 2 countries)
    
  
  
• 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)
    
  
  
• 1 continent: numerous other languages, of which German (6 countries) and Italian (4 countries) spoken in the most countries
  

Official languages of subnational entities

'Albanian':

★ Kosovo (with Serbian and English; Turkish is official in the Prizren District only).
'Aranese' ''see 'Occitan'''
'Armenian:

★ Nagorno Karabagh
'Basque':

★ Basque Country (with Spanish)

★ Navarre (with Spanish)
'Cantonese Chinese':

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

★ Macao (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))
'Dogrib|Tłįchǫ':

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

★ parts of the United States. The USA Federal Government can not declare an official language by federal law, since the United States is comprised of sovereign states. The official language is decided by a majority of the states whose official languages are declared; English is the first language by custom and majority. 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

★
★ Mississippi

★
★ Missouri

★
★ 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':

★ 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)
'Innuiauqtun':
(with Cree, Chipewyan, English, French, Gwich'in, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ (Dogrib))'
'Inuktitut':

★ Greenland (with Danish)

★ Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuvialuktun)

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

★ Nunavut (with English, French, and Inuktitut)

★ 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

★ Part of Cambodia

★ Part of Canada

★ Part of China

★ Part of Franc

★ Part of Laos

★ Part of Philippines

★ Part of United States
'Yiddish':

★ Part of Russia

★
★ Jewish Autonomous Oblast
'Zhuang':

★ Guangxi (with Chinese (Mandarin))

★ Lianshan (with Chinese (Mandarin))
A map of official languages: (note: source is CIA World Factbook. Countries that include several official languages only use one, often to avoid adding languages to the chart unnecessarily, preventing confusion. In showing ''de facto'' as well as ''de jure'' official languages, the map employs a looser definition of "official language" than that used in this article.)
Official Languages Maps

See also

★ Official language

★ National language

★ List of official languages by institution

★ List of official languages by state

★ List of countries and capitals in native languages