List of official languages

Half the countries in the world have official languages. Some of them have more than one official language. In some countries in Africa and the Philippines the official languages (French or English) are not the national languages or the most spoken. In contrast, in the Republic of Ireland what is the state's official national language is actually spoken by only a small proportion of people, while the language given secondary inferior legal status is actually the spoken language of the majority.

Albanian is an official language of:

• Albania

Arabic is an official language of:

• Algeria
• Bahrain
• Iraq (with Kurdish)
• Israel (with Arabic)
• Lebanon
• Oman
• Qatar

• Saudi Arabia
• Syria
• The United Arab Emirates
• Yemen

Armenian is an official language of:

• Armenia

Azeri is an official language of:

• Azerbaijan

Bulgarian is an official language of:

• Bulgaria

Catalan is an official language of:

• Andorra
• in Spain:
  • Balearic Islands
  • Catalonia
  • Valencia (as Valencian)

Dari is an official language of:

• Afghanistan (with Pashtu)

Dutch is an official language of:

• Belgium (with French and German)
• The Netherlands
• Suriname

English is an official language of:

• Australia
• Bahamas
• Canada (with French)
• Republic of Ireland (but secondary to Irish)
• New Zealand

Finnish is the official language of:

• Finland (with Swedish)

French is an official language of:

• Belgium (with Dutch and German)
• Canada (with English)
  • New Brunswick (with English)
  • Quebec
• Congo-Brazzaville
• Congo-Kinshasa
• Côte d'Ivoire
• France
• Monaco
• Haiti
• Switzerland (with German, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch)

German is an official language of:

• Austria
• Belgium (with Dutch and French)
• Germany
• Switzerland (with French, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romansch)

Hebrew is an official language of:

• Israel (with Arabic)

Irish is the first official language of:

• Republic of Ireland (with English as a secondary official language)

Italian is an official language of:

• Italy
• Switzerland (with German, French, and Rhaeto-Romansch)
• San Marino

Japanese is an official language of:

• Japan

Korean is an official language of:

• Korea

Kurdish is an official language of:

• Iraq (only in Kurdish regions, elsewhere Arabic is official)

Latin is an official language of:

• Vatican City

Mandarin Chinese is the official language of

• the People's Republic of China
• Taiwan

Pashtu is an official language of:

• Afghanistan (with Dari)

Rhaeto-Romansch is an official language of:

• Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian)

Russian is an official language of:

• Rusia

Spanish is an official language of:

• Argentina
• Bolivia (with Aymara and Quecha)
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea(with Bubi and Fang)
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Spain (Aranese, Basque, Catalan and Galician are co-official in some regions)
• Panama
• Paraguay(with Guarani)
• Peru
• Venezuela
• Uruguay

Swedish is the official language of:

• Finland (with Finnish)
  • Åland (unilingually Swedish)

Turkish is an official language of:

• Turkey

Vietnamese is the official language of:

• Vietnam

Some countries have no official languages, as Eritrea, Luxembourg, Sweden, Tuvalu, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or the United States (See Languages in the United States).