Home›Languages›Official Status›Official LanguageBrowse ByOfficial LanguageOfficial status records whether a government or body has formally recognized a language. Wikipedia notes that Spanish "is the official language of 21 countries, as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations," a formal standing well beyond how widely it is merely spoken. This dimension separates languages with formal recognition from those spoken without any official status.Official LanguageComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Official LanguageFilter Results94 entriesLanguage Family (Classification)AllAfro-Asiatic (6)Altaic (1)Atlantic-Congo (4)Austroasiatic (2)Austronesian (3)Aymaran (1)Balto-Slavic (4)Bantu (2)Bengali-Assamese languages (1)Central Pacific languages (1)Common Turkic (1)Cushitic (1)Dravidian (4)East Baltic (1)East Barito languages (1)East Slavic (3)Eskimo-Aleut (1)French-based Creole (1)Germanic (8)Guarani languages (1)Hellenic (1)Indo-Aryan (5)Indo-European (21)Indo-Iranian (8)Kartvelian (1)Kipchak (2)Koreanic (1)Kra-Dai (1)Macro-Somali languages (1)Malayo-Polynesian (5)Marquesic languages (1)Mongolic (1)Niger-Congo (1)North Germanic (1)Sino-Tibetan (2)Slavic (4)South Slavic (5)Southern Bantu languages (4)Tahitic languages (1)Tai (1)Tongic languages (1)Tupian (1)Turkic (5)Uralic (3)West Central German (1)West Slavic (3)Western Iranian 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