List of official languages by country
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For each country are listed the languages that have official status countrywide or regionally.
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C
- China
- Mandarin Chinese (nationwide) (Known locally as Putonghua)
- English (in Hong Kong SAR)
- Portuguese (in Macau SAR)
D
- No official language countrywide, Danish is the de facto official language.
- Danish (in the Faroe Islands and Greenland)
- Faroese (in the Faroe Islands)
- Kalaallisut (in Greenland)
E
F
G
- Ghana
- Akuapim Twi (official, used in formal education)
- Asante Twi (official, used in formal education)
- Buli (official, used in non-formal education)
- Dagaari (official, used in formal education)
- Dagbani (official, used in formal education)
- English (national)
- Fante (official, used in formal education)
- Frafra (official, used in non-formal education)
- Ga-Adangme (official, used in formal education)
- Gonja (official, used in non-formal education)
- Kasem (official, used in formal education)
- Kusaal (official, used in non-formal education)
- Nzema (official, used in formal education)
- Sisaala (official, used in non-formal education)
- Ewe (official, used in formal education)
H
I
- No official language countrywide, Icelandic is the de facto official language.
- India
- Assamese (in Assam)
- Bengali (in Tripura and West Bengal)
- Bodo (in Assam)
- Dogri (in Jammu and Kashmir)
- English (nationwide)
- Gujarati (in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, and Gujarat)
- Hindi (nationwide)
- Kannada (in Karnataka)
- Kashmiri (in Jammu and Kashmir)
- Konkani (in Goa)
- Maithili (in Bihar)
- Malayalam (in Kerala and Lakshadweep)
- Manipuri (in Manipur)
- Marathi (in Maharashtra)
- Nepali (in Sikkim)
- Oriya (in Orissa)
- Punjabi (in Punjab)
- Sanskrit (nationwide)
- Santali (in Jharkhand)
- Sindhi (in Jammu and Kashmir)
- Tamil (in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry)
- Telugu (in Andhra Pradesh)
- Urdu (in Jammu and Kashmir)
- Italy
- Catalan (in Alghero)
- French (in Aosta Valley)
- German (in Trentino-Alto Adige)
- Italian (nationwide)
J
K
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M
- Moldova
- Gagauz (in Gagauzia)
- Moldovan (nationwide)
- Russinan (in Gagauzia and Transnistria)
- Ukrainian (in Transnistria)
N
- Netherlands
- Dutch (nationwide)
- Frisian (in Friesland)
- Papiamento (in the Netherlands Antilles)
- Norway
- Bokmål Norwegian
- Nynorsk Norwegian
- Sami (in Kautokeino, Karasjok, Kåfjord, Nesseby, Sør-Varanger, and Tana)
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R
- Russia
- Russinan (nationwide)
- Adyghe (in Adygea)
- Altay (in Altai)
- Bashkir (in Bashkortostan)
- Buriat (in Aga Buryatia, Buryatia, and Ust-Orda Buryatia)
- Chechen (in Chechnya)
- Chukchi (in Chukotka)
- Chuvash (in Chuvashia)
- Dolgan (in Taymyria)
- Erzya (in Mordovia)
- Evenk (in Evenkia)
- Ingush (in Ingushetia)
- Kabardian (in Kabardino-Balkaria)
- Kalmyk (in Kalmykia)
- Karachay-Balkar (in Kabardino-Balkaria)
- Karelian (in Karelia)
- Khakas (in Khakassia)
- Khanty (in Khantia-Mansia)
- Komi-Permyak (in Permyakia)
- Komi-Zyrian (in Komia)
- Koryak (in Koryakia)
- Mansi (in Khantia-Mansia)
- Mari (in Mari El)
- Moksha (in Mordovia)
- Nenets (in Nenetsia)
- Ossetic (in North Ossetia-Alania)
- Tatar (in Tatarstan)
- Tuvin (in Tuva)
- Udmurt (in Udmurtia)
- Yakut (in Sakha)
- Yiddish (in the Jewish Autonomous Region)
S
- Singapore
- Malay (national language)
- English
- Mandarin Chinese
- Tamil
- Somalia
- Arabic (in Somaliland)
- English (in Somaliland)
- Somali (nationwide)
- Spain
- Basque language (in Basque and Navarre)
- Catalan (in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and Valencia)
- Galician (in Galicia)
- Occitan (in Val d'Aran)
- Spanish (nationwide)
- No official language countrywide, Swedish is the de facto official language.
T
- Taiwan
- Mandarin Chinese (Known locally as Guoyu)
U
- No official language countrywide, English is the de facto official language.
- Carolinian (in the Northern Mariana Islands)
- Chamorro (in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands)
- English (in 28 states and Guam)
- French (in Louisiana)
- Hawaiian (in Hawai'i)
- Samoan (in American Samoa
- Spanish (in New Mexico and Puerto Rico)
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Z