List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language
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This is a ranking of languages by the number of sovereign countries in which they are de jure or de facto official.
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This is a ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are de jure or de facto official, although there are no precise inclusion criteria or definition of a language. An '*' (asterisk) indicates a country whose independence is disputed.
Regions and partially recognized or de facto independent countries are denoted by an asterisk (*)
See also
- Linguistic demography
- Lists of endangered languages
- Lists of languages
- List of largest languages without official status by total number of speakers
- List of countries by the number of recognized official languages
- List of languages by number of native speakers
- List of languages by total number of speakers
- Number of languages by country
- World language
- Languages used on the Internet
Footnotes
- ^ In the United States of America, English is the language of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and The Federalist Papers and remains the working language of the federal administration. At the state level, some states with large Hispanic populations—such as Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico, and Texas—provide bilingual legislated notices and official documents in both Spanish and English. Attempts have been made to legislate English as the official language of the federal government of the United States, often imbued with nationalist sentiment such as the proposed English Language Unity Act of 2005 with its controversial ties to immigration policy, but these initiatives have not passed into law, despite an English-only movement whose long history includes: Pennsylvania of the 1750s concerning German; the decade of the 1800s in Louisiana concerning French; the 1890s concerning the use of the Hawaiian language in Hawaii; and from 1880 onward—now formally organized—more than a century of American Indian boarding schools suppressing the use of Native American indigenous language.