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Ta'Oi language; Tai Daeng language; Tai Dam language; Tai Dón language; Tai Lue language; Tai Muong Vat language; Tai Pao language; Tai Thanh language; Tai Viet script; Tai Yo language; Takua language; Tariang language; Tây Bồi Pidgin French; Tày language; Tày Tac language; Telue language; Todrah language; Tsʻün-Lao 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 ...
The Mon language is a recognized indigenous language in Myanmar and Thailand, while the Wa language is a "recognized national language" in the de facto autonomous Wa State within Myanmar. Santali is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. The remainder of the family's languages are spoken by minority groups and have no official status.
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.
In the United States, Vietnamese is the sixth most spoken language, with over 1.5 million speakers, who are concentrated in a handful of states. It is the third-most spoken language in Texas and Washington; fourth-most in Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia; and fifth-most in Arkansas and California. [53]
Kabardino-Balkaria (state language; with Kabardian and Russian) [72] Bashkir: Bashkortostan (state language; with Russian) [73] Basque: Basque Autonomous Community (with Spanish) Navarre (in some areas with Spanish) Bengali: India (as a "subsidiary official language"} and 20 other official languages; second most spoken Indian Language)
The Vietic languages are a branch of the Austroasiatic language family, spoken by the Vietic peoples in Laos and Vietnam. The branch was once referred to by the terms Việt–Mường, Annamese–Muong, and Vietnamuong; the term Vietic was proposed by La Vaughn Hayes, [1] [2] who proposed to redefine Việt–Mường as referring to a sub-branch of Vietic containing only Vietnamese and Mường.
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, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic, other authors consider its mutually ...