This is a list of unofficial, or otherwise administratively-recognized, languages of sovereign countries, regions, and supra-national institutions. The article also lists lots of languages which have no administrative mandate as an official language, generally describing these as de facto official languages.

Official languages of sovereign countries, wholly or partly

A

Abkhaz: Afar: Afrikaans: Aja-Gbe: Akan (Akuapem Twi, Asante Twi, Fante): Albanian: Amharic: Anii: Arabic (see also List of countries where Arabic is an official language): Araona: Armenian: Assamese: Aymara: Azerbaijani:

B

Balanta: Bambara: Bariba: Basque: Bassari: Bedik: Belarusian: Bengali: Berber: Biali: Bislama: Boko: Bomu: Bosnian: Bozo: Buduma: Bulgarian: Burmese:

C

Cantonese: Catalan: Chinese, Mandarin: Chichewa: Chirbawe (Sena): Comorian Corsican : Croatian: Czech:

D

Dagaare: Dagbani: Dangme Danish: Dari: Dendi: Dhivehi: Dioula: Dogon: Dutch: Dzongkha:

E

English (see also List of countries where English is an official language): Estonian: Ewe-Gbe:

F

Faroese: Fijian: Filipino: Finnish: Fon-Gbe: Foodo: Formosan: French (see also List of countries where French is an official language): Fula:

G

Ga: Gàidhlig: Gbe: Gen-Gbe: Georgian: German: Gonja: Gourmanché Greek: Guaraní: Gujarati:

H

Haitian Creole: Hakka: Hassaniya: Hausa: Hebrew: Hindi: Hiri Motu: Hungarian:

I

Igbo: Icelandic: Indonesian: Irish: Italian:

J

Japanese: Javanese: Jola:

K

Kabye: Kalanga: Kannada: Kanuri: Kasem: Kazakh: Khmer: Kinyarwanda: Kirundi: Kissi "Koisan" (Tshuwau): Korean: Korean Sign Language: Kpelle: Kurdish: Kyrgyz:

L

Lao: Latin: Latvian: Lithuanian: Lukpa: Luxembourgish:

M

Macedonian: Malagasy: Malay: Malinke: Maltese: Mamara: Manding (Mandinka, Malinke): Mandinka: Mandjak: Mankanya: Manx Gaelic: Māori: Marshallese: Mauritian Creole Mbelime: Meitei (officially known as Manipuri) Mongolian: Montenegrin: Mossi:

N

Nambya: Nateni: Nauruan Ndau: Ndebele (Northern): Ndebele (Southern): Nepali: New Zealand Sign Language: Noon: Northern Sotho: Norwegian: Nzema:

O

Oniyan: Oriya Oromo: Ossetian:

P

Palauan: Papiamento: Pashto: Persian: Polish: Portuguese: Punjabi:

Q

Quechua:

R

Romanian: Romansh: Russian:

S

Safen: Samoan Sango Sena: Scots Serbian: Serer: Seychellois Creole Shona: Sinhala: Slovak: Slovene: Somali: Songhay-Zarma: Soninke: Sotho: South African Sign Language Spanish: Susu: Swahili: Swati: Swedish: Syenara:

T

Taiwan Sign Language: Taiwanese Hokkien: Tajik: Tagalog: Tamasheq: Tamil: Tammari: Tasawaq: Tebu: Telugu: Tetum: Thai: Tigrinya: Tok Pisin: Toma: Tonga: Tongan Tsonga: Tswana: Turkish: Turkmen: Tuvaluan

U

Ukrainian: Urdu: Uzbek:

V

Venda: Vietnamese:

W

Waama: Waci-Gbe: Wamey: Welsh: Wolof:

X

Xhosa: Xwela-Gbe:

Y

Yobe: Yom: Yoruba:

Z

Zimbabwean sign language: Zulu:

List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used

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.

Official regional and minority languages

Abaza: Adyghe: Aghul: Aklanon: Albanian: Altay: Arabic: Aranese see Occitan Armenian: Assamese: Avar: Azeri: Balkar: Bashkir: Basque: Bengali: Bikol: Bosnian: Buryat: Cantonese Chinese: Catalan: Cebuano: Chavacano: Chechen: Cherkess: Cherokee: Chipewyan: Chukchi: Chuvash: Cree: Crimean Tatar Croatian: Dargwa: Dolgan: Dutch: English: Erzya: Even: Evenki: Faroese: Finnish: French: Frisian (West): Friulian: Gagauz: Galician: German: Greek: Guaraní: Gujarati: Gwich'in: Hawaiian: Hiligaynon: Hindi: Hungarian: Ibanag: Ilocano: Ingush: Inuinnaqtun: Inuktitut: Inuvialuktun: Irish: Italian: Ivatan: Japanese: Kabardian: Kalaallisut: Kalmyk: Kannada: Kapampangan: Karachay: Karelian: Kashmiri: Kazakh: Khakas: Khanty: Kinaray-a: Komi: Komi-Permyak: Korean: Kumyk: Kyrgyz: Lak: Lezgian: Macedonian Maguindanao: Malayalam: Mansi: Maranao: Marathi: Mari (Hill and Meadow): Mayan: Meitei (officially known as Manipuri): Mi'kmaq: Moksha: Mongolian: Náhuatl: Nenets: Nepali: Nogai: Occitan: Odia: Ossetic (Digor and Iron dialects): Pangasinan: Portuguese: Punjabi: Romanian: Russian. Russian is fixed as a state language in the Constitutions of the republics of the Russian Federation: Rusyn: Rutul: Sakha: Sambal: Sami: Sanskrit: Saraiki Sarikoli: Selkup: Serbian: Sindhi: North and South Slavey: Slovak: Slovene: Spanish: Surigaonon: Tabasaran: Tagalog: Tahitian: Tamil: Tat: Tatar: Tausug: Telugu: Tibetan: Tłįchǫ: Tsakhur: Tswana: Turkish: Tuvan: Udmurt: Urdu: Uyghur: Veps: Vietnamese: Waray: Welsh: Yakan: Yiddish: Yukaghir: Zhuang: