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A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
Indonesians speak about 746 different languages. [187] Javanese has the most users in terms of native speakers (about 80 million). However, the sole official (or so-called "unity language") is Indonesian which has only 30 million L1 speakers (compared to Indonesia 260 million population). The role of Indonesian is important to glue together ...
Hong Kong (for Chinese language, Cantonese is spoken de facto; co-official with English) Macau (for Chinese language, Cantonese is spoken de facto; co-official with Portuguese) Catalan: parts of Spain Balearic Islands (with Spanish) Catalonia (with Spanish) Valencia (named as Valencian, with Spanish) parts of France Pyrénées Orientales; parts ...
Country Region Population Status India Asia 1,367,703,110 [1]: Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English.Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India.
Arabic, French, and Spanish are official or co-official languages in several countries. An official language that is also an indigenous language is called endoglossic, one that is not indigenous is exoglossic. [7] An instance is Nigeria which has three endoglossic official languages. By this, the country aims to protect the indigenous languages ...
Official language in: Basque Country and Navarre, Kingdom of Spain; Spoken in the French Basque Country, Atlantic Pyrenees Republic of France, but with no legal status. Bassa – Ɓǎsɔ́ɔ̀ (𖫢𖫧𖫳𖫒𖫨𖫰𖫨𖫱) Spoken by: Liberian/Sierra Leonean Bassa People; Batak – ᯘᯮᯒᯖ᯲ ᯅᯖᯂ᯲
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold : internationally recognized sovereign states The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN)