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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 ...
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) Vatican City (administered by the Holy See, a UN observer state), which is generally recognized as a ...
The United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, where the overwhelming majority of native English speakers reside, do not have English as an official language de jure, but English is considered their de facto official language because it dominates in these countries.
A color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1] [2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
In some districts of Burgenland, Hungarian and Croatian have equal status to German as an official language." [9] About 250 languages are spoken throughout Austria, though many have very small populations of speakers. [9] Only about 20 languages (apart from official languages of Austria) have more than 10,000 speakers. [8]
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke English, [1] [2] making it the largest language by number of speakers, the third largest language by number of native speakers and the most widespread language geographically.
United Kingdom (de facto; individual countries in the UK have statutorily defined official languages, but the UK as a whole does not) United States [ 39 ] Vanuatu (with Bislama and French ) [ 20 ]
Austria has one official language: German. However, it also has Croatian and Slovenian minorities, all of whose languages are protected under federal laws. [203] Certain functions are also guaranteed for Romany, Hungarian, Czech and Slovak in Vienna and Burgenland, under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. [204]