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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 ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue ... South Africa: 30 12 42 ... French Polynesia: 9 1 10
French Polynesia; French Loyalty Islands ... South African Sign Language. South Africa (with Afrikaans, ... Language Number of countries language spoken English: 101 ...
Country Region Population Status India Asia 1,367,703,110 [1]: Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English.Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India.
Tahitian is the most prominent of the indigenous Polynesian languages spoken in French Polynesia (reo māʼohi). [2] [3] The latter also include: [4] Marquesan, spoken by about 8,000 people in the Marquesas Islands, with two sub-divisions, North-Western (ʼeo ʼenana) and South-Eastern (ʼeo ʼenata)
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [ 2 ] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3 , defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural ...
The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, [1] and by some counts at over 3,000. [2] Nigeria alone has over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), [3] one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world.
Official language in: 27 countries and 4 international organizations; Aragonese – l'Aragonés Official language in: Aragon, Spain; Arakanese – ရက္ခိုင်ဘာသာ Spoken in: Rakhine State, Myanmar and Chittagong Division, Bangladesh; Araki – Soron Raki (moribund; 8 speakers as of 2012) Spoken in: Araki Island, Vanuatu