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Data on official languages from both
These sources often do not agree. The view on this page is that the more inclusive definition should be used, combining languages on both lists. Even if a language listed here is not formally adopted as an official language in the country of use, it is important enough for our purposes.
Country | Official | Other Language(s) | Region(s) |
---|---|---|---|
Argentina | Spanish | living languages: 25 | |
Guarani | Corrientes, Misiones | ||
Brazil | Portuguese | living languages: 188 | |
China, People's Republic of |
Mandarin (aka Putonghua) |
living languages: 235 | |
Cantonese | Hong Kong, Macau (de facto) | ||
English | Hong Kong | ||
Kazakh | Ili Kazakh | ||
Korean | Changbai, Yanbian | ||
Mongolian | Inner Mongolia | ||
Portuguese | Macau | ||
Tajik | Taxkorgan | ||
Tibetan | Tibet | ||
Uyghur | Xinjiang | ||
Zhuang | Guangxi | ||
Daur | - regional - | ||
Kalmyk-Oirat | - regional - | ||
Lu | - regional - | ||
Peripheral Mongolian | - regional - | ||
Central Tibetan | - regional - | ||
Uyghur | - regional - | ||
Xibe | - regional - | ||
Northern Zhuang | - regional - | ||
Egypt | (Egyptian) Arabic | living languages: 11 | |
India | Hindi English |
living languages: 415 | |
sheduled official | Assamese | Assam | |
sheduled official | Bengali | Tripura, West Bengal | |
sheduled official | Bodo | Assam | |
sheduled official | Dogri | Jammu, Kashmir | |
sheduled official | Gujarati | Dadra, Nagar Haveli, Daman, Diu, Gujarat | |
sheduled official | Kannada | Karnataka | |
sheduled official | Kashmiri | Jammu, Kashmir | |
sheduled official | Konkani | Goa | |
sheduled official | Maithili | Bihar | |
sheduled official | Malayalam | Kerala, Pondicherry, Lakshadweep | |
Meitei | Manipur | ||
sheduled official | Marathi | Maharashtra | |
sheduled official | Nepali | Sikkim | |
sheduled official | Oriya | Orissa | |
sheduled official | Punjabi | Punjab | |
Sanskrit | classical learning language | ||
sheduled official | Santali | Jharkhand | |
sheduled official | Sindhi | Jammu, Kashmir | |
sheduled official | Tamil | Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry | |
sheduled official | Telugu | Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry | |
sheduled official | Urdu | Jammu, Kashmir | |
French | Pondicherry Union Territory - only | ||
Libya | Arabic (std) | living languages: 9 | |
Nigeria | Hausa Igbo Yoruba English |
living languages: 510 | |
widely used | Adamawa, Edo, Efik, Fulfulde, Idoma, (central) Kanuri | ||
Rwanda | Kinyarwanda French English |
living languages: 3 Source: Ethnologue | |
Thailand | Thai | living languages: 74 | |
Uruguay | Spanish |