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The following is a list of languages by national recognition. They are listed by continent in alphabetical order, under sections for official, national, and regionally recognised languages.

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National languages

Africa

Language	Official language in
Afrikaans	South Africa
Amharic	Ethiopia
Arabic	Algeria,  Chad,  Comoros,  Djibouti,  Egypt,  Eritrea,  Gambia,  Libya,  Mauritania,  Morocco,  Somaliland,  Sudan,  Tunisia,  Western Sahara
Bengali	Sierra Leone
Berber	Algeria,  Morocco
Chichewa	Zimbabwe
Comoran	Comoros
English	Ascension Island,  Botswana,  Cameroon,  Chad,  Ghana,  Kenya,  Liberia,  Malawi,  Malawi,  Namibia,  Nigeria,  Rwanda,  Saint Helena,  Seychelles,  Sierra Leone,  South Africa,  Somaliland,  South Sudan,  Sudan,  Swaziland,  Tanzania,  Tristan da Cunha,  Uganda,  Zambia,  Zimbabwe
French	Benin,  Burkina Faso,  Burundi,  Cameroon,  Central African Republic,  Chad,  Congo,  Congo DR,  Djibouti,  Equatorial Guinea,  Gabon,  Guinea,  Ivory Coast,  Madagascar,  Mali,  Mayotte,  Niger,  Réunion,  Rwanda,  Senegal,  Seychelles,  Togo
Kalanga	Zimbabwe
Kinyarwanda	Rwanda
Kirundi	Burundi
Malagasy	Madagascar
Nambya	Zimbabwe
Ndau	Zimbabwe
Ndebele	South Africa
Portuguese	Angola,  Cape Verde,  Equatorial Guinea,  Guinea-Bissau,  Mozambique
Sango	Central African Republic
Sena	Zimbabwe
Sesotho	Lesotho,  South Africa,  Zimbabwe
Setswana	Botswana,  South Africa,  Zimbabwe
Seychellois Creole	Seychelles
Shona	Zimbabwe
Somali	Djibouti,  Somalia,  Somaliland
Spanish	Equatorial Guinea
Swahili	Kenya,  Tanzania,  Uganda
Swati	South Africa,  Swaziland
Tigrinya	Eritrea
Tsonga	South Africa,  Zimbabwe
Tonga	Zimbabwe
Tshwa	Zimbabwe
Venda	South Africa,  Zimbabwe
Xhosa	South Africa,  Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean Ndebele	Zimbabwe
ZSL	Zimbabwe
Zulu	South Africa

Asia

Language	Official language in
Arabic	Bahrain,  Iraq,  Israel,  Jordan,  Kuwait,  Lebanon,  Oman,  Palestine,  Philippines,  Qatar,  Saudi Arabia,  Syria,  UAE,  Yemen
Bengali	Bangladesh
Burmese	Burma
Cantonese	Hong Kong,  Macau
Chinese (Mandarin)	China,  Singapore,  Taiwan
Dari	Afghanistan
Dzongkha	Bhutan
English	Brunei,  Hong Kong,  India,  Pakistan,  Philippines,  Singapore
Filipino	Philippines
Hebrew	Israel
Hindi	India
Indonesian	Indonesia
Japanese	Japan
Kazakh	Kazakhstan
Khmer	Cambodia
Korean	North Korea,  South Korea
Kurdish	Iraq
Kyrgyz	Kyrgyzstan
Lao	Laos
Malay	Brunei,  Malaysia,  Singapore
Maldivian	Maldives
Mongolian	Mongolia
Nepali	Nepal
Pashto	Afghanistan
Persian	Iran
Portuguese	East Timor,  Macau
Russian	Kazakhstan,  Kyrgyzstan,  Russia
Sinhala	Sri Lanka
Spanish	Philippines
Tajik	Tajikistan
Tamil	Singapore,  Sri Lanka
Tetum	East Timor
Thai	Thailand
Turkish	Turkey
Turkmen	Turkmenistan
Urdu	Pakistan
Uzbek	Uzbekistan
Vietnamese	Vietnam

Europe

Language	Official language in
Abkhaz	Abkhazia
Albanian	Albania,  Kosovo
Armenian	Armenia,  Nagorno-Karabakh
Azerbaijani	Azerbaijan
Belarusian	Belarus
Bosnian	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgarian	Bulgaria
Catalan	Andorra
Croatian	Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Croatia
Czech	Czech Republic
Danish	Denmark
Dutch	Belgium,  Netherlands
English	Ireland,  Malta,  UK
Estonian	Estonia
Faroese	Faroe Islands
Finnish	Finland
French	Belgium,  France,  Jersey,  Luxembourg,  Monaco,  Switzerland
German	Austria,  Belgium,  Germany,  Liechtenstein,  Luxembourg,  Switzerland
Greek	Cyprus,  Greece
Hungarian	Hungary
Icelandic	Iceland
Irish	Ireland
Italian	Italy,  San Marino,  Switzerland
Latvian	Latvia
Lithuanian	Lithuania
Luxembourgish	Luxembourg
Macedonian	Macedonia
Maltese	Malta
Manx	Isle of Man
Moldovan	Moldova
Monegasque	Monaco
Montenegrin	Montenegro
Norwegian	Norway
Ossetian	South Ossetia
Polish	Poland
Portuguese	Portugal
Romanian	Romania
Russian	Abkhazia,  Belarus,  Donetsk PR,  Luhansk PR,  Russia,  South Ossetia,  Transnistria
Serbian	Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Serbia
Slovak	Slovakia
Slovene	Slovenia
Spanish	Andorra,  Spain
Swedish	Åland,  Finland,  Sweden
Turkish	Cyprus,  Northern Cyprus
Ukrainian	Ukraine

North America/Caribbean

Language	Official language in
Dutch	Aruba,  Bonaire,  Curaçao,  Saba,  Sint Eustatius,  Sint Maarten
English	Anguilla,  Antigua and Barbuda,  Bermuda,  Bahamas,  Barbados,  Belize,  British Virgin Islands,  Canada,  Dominica,  Grenada,  Jamaica,  Montserrat,  Puerto Rico,  Saba,  Saint Kitts and Nevis,  Saint Lucia,  Saint Vincent,  Sint Eustatius,  Turks and Caicos,  United States,  US Virgin Islands
French	Canada,  Guadeloupe,  Haiti,  Martinique,  Saint-Barthélemy,  Saint-Martin,  Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Greenlandic	Greenland
Haitian Creole	Haiti
Papiamento	Aruba,  Bonaire,  Curaçao
Spanish	Costa Rica,  Cuba,  Dominican Republic,  El Salvador,  Honduras,  Mexico,  Nicaragua,  Panama,  Puerto Rico

Oceania

Language	Official language in
Bislama	Vanuatu
Carolinian	Northern Mariana Islands
Chamorro	Guam,  Northern Mariana Islands
Cook Islands Maori	Cook Islands
English	American Samoa,  Australia,  Cook Islands,  Fiji,  Guam,  Kiribati,  Marshall Islands,  Micronesia,  Nauru,  New Zealand,  Niue,  Norfolk Island,  Northern Mariana Islands,  Palau,  Papua New Guinea,  Pitcairn Islands,  Samoa,  Solomon Islands,  Tokelau,  Tonga,  Tuvalu,  Vanuatu
Fijian	Fiji
Fijian Hindi	Fiji
French	French Polynesia,  New Caledonia,  Vanuatu,  Wallis and Futuna
Futunan	Wallis and Futuna
Gilbertese	Kiribati
Hiri Motu	Papua New Guinea
Japanese	Micronesia
Maori	New Zealand
Marshallese	Marshall Islands
Nauruan	Nauru
NZSL	New Zealand
Niuean	Niue
Norfuk	Norfolk Island
Palauan	Palau
Pitcairnese	Pitcairn Islands
PNGSL	Papua New Guinea
Samoan	American Samoa,  Samoa
Spanish	Micronesia
Tok Pisin	Papua New Guinea
Tokelauan	Tokelau
Tongan	Tonga
Tuvaluan	Tuvalu
Wallisian	Wallis and Futuna

South America

Language	Official language in
Aymara	Bolivia,  Peru
Dutch	Suriname
English	Falkland Islands,  Guyana,  South Georgia
French	French Guiana
Guarani	Bolivia,  Paraguay
Quechua	Bolivia,  Peru
Spanish	Argentina,  Bolivia,  Brazil,  Chile,  Colombia,  Ecuador,  Paraguay,  Peru,  Uruguay,  Venezuela

^{*Bolivia also has 29 more indigenous "official languages," but most are almost or nearly extinct, and are therefore irrelevant.}

National languages

Africa

Asia

Language	Official language in
Assamese	India
Bodo	India
Dogri	India
Gujarati	India
Kannada	India
Kashmiri	India
Konkani	India
Maithili	India
Malayalam	India
Manipuri	India
Marathi	India
Nepali	India
Oriya	India
Punjabi	India
Sanskrit	India
Santali	India
Sindhi	India
Tamil	India
Telugu	India
Urdu	India

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Europe

Language	Official language in
Albanian	Montenegro
Bosnian	Montenegro
Croatian	Montenegro
Serbian	Montenegro