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In 1980, other regional languages were granted official status in the regions where they are the language of the majority. [22] This policy was codified in the 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan , which established Uzbek, Turkmen, Balochi, Pashayi, Nuristani, and Pamiri as official languages in areas where they are spoken by a majority of the ...
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 ...
official language(s) Current spoken language(s) Historically belonged to Historical official language(s) Historical spoken language(s) Time period Continent 1 Afghanistan: Pashto, Dari: Pashto, Dari, various others: Umayyad Caliphate: Arabic: Pashto, Dari, Uzbek, Turkmen, Central Asian Arabic: 661–750: Asia 2 Armenia: Armenian: Armenian ...
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)
Central African Republic: French & Sango (both official) [2] and 50 other African languages. Chad: French and Arabic (both official) [3] + more than 100 African languages. Democratic Republic of the Congo: French (official) + Lingala, Kongo, Swahili & Tshiluba (national languages) [4] + 238 other languages.
Most languages natively spoken in Africa belong to one of the two large language families that dominate the continent: Afroasiatic, or Niger–Congo. Another hundred belong to smaller families such as Ubangian, Nilotic, Saharan, and the various families previously grouped under the umbrella term Khoisan. In addition, the languages of Africa ...
Afro-Asiatic languages are spoken in North Africa, the Horn of Africa, as well as parts of the Sahel. Khoisan languages are spoken in desert areas of Southern Africa, but were formerly spoken over a larger area, and are thought to include two small languages ( Hadza and Sandawe ) in the African Great Lakes .
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... South Africa: 30 12 42 0.59 51,004,892 1,416,803