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There are two dozen languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except for Nepali, which is an Indo-Aryan language, and the Bhutanese Sign Language. [1] Dzongkha , the national language, is the only native language of Bhutan with a literary tradition, though Lepcha and Nepali are literary languages in other countries ...
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.
Dzongkha is the national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan. Other languages spoken include Brokpa, Dzala, Chali Chocangacakha, Dakpa language, Khengkha language, Nepali language, Gongduk, Nyenkha, Lhokpu, Takpa and Tshangla. [21] Almost all the languages of Bhutan are from the Tibetic family (except Nepali, an Indo-Aryan language).
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 ...
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There are over 520 native languages spoken in Nigeria. [1] [2] [3] The official language is English, [4] [5] which was the language of Colonial Nigeria.The English-based creole Nigerian Pidgin – first used by the British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century [6] – is the most common lingua franca, spoken by over 60 million people.
For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties, and so ...
Western Circassian language. Official language in: Adygea, Russia; Spoken also in: Turkey, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Germany, United States, Netherlands etc. Afade – afaë Spoken in: Cameroon and Nigeria; Afar – Qafár af National Language in: Eritrea; Afrihili – El-Afrihili Proposed lingua franca of Africa; Afrikaans – Afrikaans