If you’re thinking of traveling to other countries, it’s interesting to see the languages officially used there. I’m hoping this series will help you plan which countries to visit to practice, study, or hear a rare language or simply just to know which languages are official in which state.
Cambodia
- Khmer
Cameroon
- English
- French
Canada
- English (federal; de jure official language)
- De jure official language in the provinces and territories of Manitoba, New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Yukon.
- French (federal; de jure official language)
- De jure official language for the provinces and territories of Manitoba, New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec and the Yukon.
- Chipewyan (regional; de jure official language in the Northwest Territories)
- Cree (regional; de jure official language in the Northwest Territories)
- Gwich’in (regional; de jure official language in the Northwest Territories)
- Inuinnaqtun (regional; de jure official language in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut)
- Inuktitut (regional; de jure official language in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut)
- Inuvialuktun (regional; de jure official language in the Northwest Territories)
- North Slavey (regional; de jure official language in the Northwest Territories)
- South Slavey (regional; de jure official language in the Northwest Territories)
- Tłįchǫ (regional; de jure official language in the Northwest Territories)
- English (federal; de jure official language)
Cape Verde
- Portuguese (official)
- Cape Verdean Creole (national)
Central African Republic
- French
- Sango (national)
Chad
- Arabic
- French
Chile
- No official language, Spanish is the de facto official language. (the languages and dialects of ethnic groups are also official in their territories)
China
- Chinese (statewide)
- Bai (in Dali, Lanping, Yunnan)
- Blang (in Shuangjiang, Yunnan)
- Bonan (in Jishishan, Gansu)
- Daur (in Morin Dawa, Inner Mongolia; Meilisi Daur District, Heilongjiang)
- Derung (in Gongshan, Yunnan)
- Dong (in Sanjiang, Guangxi; Qiandongnan, Yuping, Guizhou; Jingzhou, Tongdao, Xinhuang, Zhijiang, Hunan)
- Dongxiang (Santa) (in Dongxiang, Jishishan, Gansu)
- Evenki (in Evenk Autonomous Banner, Evenk Ethnic Sumu, Inner Mongolia)
- Gelao (Klau) (in Daozhen, Wuchuan, Guizhou)
- Hani (in Honghe, Jiangcheng, Mojiang, Ning’er, Yuanjiang, ZhenyuanYunnan)
- Hlai (Li) (in Baisha, Baoting, Changjiang, Ledong, Lingshui, Qiongzhong, Hainan)
- Hmong (Miao) (in Pengshui, Xiushan, Youyang, Chongqing; Chetian, Liangshui, Rongshui, Guangxi; Daozhen, Guanling, Qiandongnan, Qiannan, Qianxinan,Songtao, Weining, Wuchuan, Yinjiang, Zhenning, Ziyun, Guizhou; Baoting, Qiongzhong, Hainan; Enshi, Hubei; Chengbu, Jingzhou, Mayang, Xiangxi, Hunan; Jinping,Luquan, Pingbian, Wenshan, Yunnan)
- Jingpho (Kachin) (in Dehong, Yunnan)
- Jino (in Jinuoshan, Yunnan)
- Kazakh (in Aksai, Gansu; Barkol, Ili, Mori, Xinjiang)
- Kyrgyz (in Kizilsu, Xinjiang)
- Korean (in Changbai, Yanbian, Jilin)
- Lahu (in Lancang, Menglian, Shuangjiang, Zhenyuan, Yunnan)
- Lisu (in Sudian, Weixi, Yunnan)
- Maonan (Anan) (in Huanjiang, Guangxi)
- Mongolian (in Subei, Gansu; Weichang, Hebei; Dorbod, Heilongjiang; Inner Mongolia; Qian Gorlos, Jilin; Fuxin, Harqin, Liaoning; Haixi, Henan, Qinghai; Bayingolin,Bortala, Hoboksar, Xinjiang)
- Monguor (in Datong, Huzhu, Minhe, Qinghai)
- Monpa (in Gongri, Jiba, Lebuqule, Mama, Pailong, Tibet)
- Mulam (in Guzhai, Luocheng, Guangxi)
- Nanai (Hezhen) (in Bacha, Jiejinkou, Sipai, Heilongjiang)
- Naxi (Nakhi) (in Yulong, Yunnan)
- Ngac’ang (Achang) (in Husa, Jiubao, Nangsong, Yunnan)
- Nu (in Gongshan, Yunnan; not a specific language)
- Nuosu (Yi) (in Weining, Guizhou; Ebian, Liangshan, Mabian, Sichuan; Chuxiong, Eshan, Honghe, Jiangcheng, Jingdong, Jinggu, Luquan, Nanjian, Ninger, Ninglang,Shilin, Weishan, Xinping, Yangbi, Yuanjiang, Zhenyuan, Yunnan)
- Oroqen (in Greater Khingan, Oroqin Shibazhan, Inner Mongolia)
- Palaung (De’ang) (in Santaishan, Yunnan)
- Pumi (in Lanping, Yunnan)
- Russian (in Shiwei, Inner Mongolia)
- Qiangic (in Beichuan, Ngawa, Sichuan)
- Salar (in Jishishan, Gansu; Xunhua, Qinghai)
- Sarikoli (Tajik) (in Tashkurgan, Xinjiang)
- She (in Jingning, Zhejiang)
- Sui (in Sandu, Guizhou)
- Tatar (in Daquan, Xinjiang)
- Tibetan (in Gannan, Tianzhu, Gansu; Guoluo, Haibei, Hainan, Haixi, Huangnan, Yushu, Qinghai; Garzê, Muli, Ngawa, Sichuan; Tibet; Diqing, Yunnan)
- Tujia (in Pengshui, Shizhu, Xiushan, Youyang, Chongqing; Yanhe, Yinjiang, Guizhou; Changyang, Enshi, Wufeng, Hubei; Xiangxi, Hunan)
- Uzbek (in Da’nan’gou, Xinjiang)
- Uyghur (in Xinjiang)
- Va (in Cangyuan, Gengma, Menglian, Shuangjiang, Ximeng, Yunnan)
- Vietnamese (in Jinping, Jiangxi)
- Xibe (in Qapqal, Xinjiang)
- Yugur (Western, Eastern) (in Sunan, Gansu)
- Zhuang (in Lianshan, Guangdong; Guangxi; Wenshan, Yunnan)
Colombia
- Spanish (the languages and dialects of ethnic groups are also official in their territories)
Comoros
- Arabic
- Comorian
- French
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- French
- Lingala (national)
- Kikongo (national)
- Swahili (national)
- Tshiluba (national)
Republic of the Congo
- French
- Lingala (national)
- Munukutuba (national)
Costa Rica
- Spanish
Ivory Coast
- French
Croatia
- Croatian (statewide)
- Italian (at regional level in Istria county)
- Serbian (in some municipalities)
- Hungarian (in some municipalities)
- Czech (in some municipalities)
Cuba
- Spanish
Cyprus
- Greek
- Turkish
- Armenian (minority language)
Czech Republic
- Czech
- Slovak
- Bulgarian (minority language)
- Croatian (minority language)
- German (minority language)
- Greek (minority language)
- Hungarian (minority language)
- Polish (minority language)
- Romani (minority language)
- Russian (minority language)
- Rusyn (minority language)
- Serbian (minority language)
- Ukrainian (minority language)
Info retrieved from Wikipedia.
