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Equatorial Guinea: Spanish, French and Portuguese are the official languages of the country. [5] Fang, Bube, Igbo, Pidgin English, Annobonese are also spoken. [6] [7] Republic of the Congo: French (official), Lingala and Kituba national languages [8] plus other dialects, including Kikongo and Kituba.
This is the list of countries sorted by the number of official languages. Only countries with three or more official languages, either nationally or locally, are included. Country. Official. Including minority. Ref. Bolivia. 37. 37.
Berges Institute. Retrieved 27 May 2023. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and it is an official language, either de facto (in practice) or de jure (by law) in 20 countries. Spanish is also an official language in Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, the United Nations, the African Union, and the Organization of American States.
Country or territory Number of living languages Number of speakers Established Immigrant Total Percent [note 1] Total Mean Median 1 Papua New Guinea: 840 0 840 11.81 4,213,381 5,040 1,315 2 Indonesia: 707 2 709 9.98 222,191,197 315,165 3,500 3 Nigeria: 525 7 524 7.37 163,317,444 348,225 14,000 4 India: 453 6 459 1,257,421,714 2,924,237 35,000 5
This is a ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are de jure or de facto official, co-official, an administrative or working language. [ 66 ] Language
Official multilingualism is the policy adopted by some states of recognizing multiple languages as official and producing all official documents, and handling all correspondence and official dealings, including court procedure, in these languages. It is distinct from personal multilingualism, the capacity of a person to speak several languages.
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations. These rights can be created in written form or by historic usage. [1][2] 178 countries recognize an official language, 101 of them recognizing more than one. The government of Italy made Italian official only in 1999, [3] and some nations (such as the ...
The six official languages spoken at the UN are the first or second language of 2.8 billion people on the planet, less than half of the world population. The six languages are official languages in almost two-thirds of United Nations member states (over 120 states). [citation needed] English. French.