Official Languages of the World

Can you name the national languages of every country in the world?

Source: Wikipedia

National languages only - not regional languages. Some countries also acknowledge sign language varieties which are not shown.

Countries without a de jure official language, only a de facto one, are marked in blue

Bolivia has 37 official languages, Zimbabwe 16, and Mali 13. This quiz includes the most prominent.

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Country	Language
Afghanistan	Pashto
Afghanistan	Persian (Darī)
Albania	Albanian
Algeria	Arabic
Algeria	Berber
Andorra	Catalan
Angola	Portuguese
Antigua and Barbuda	English
Argentina	Spanish
Armenia	Armenian
Australia	English
Austria	German
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijani
Bahamas	English
Bahrain	Arabic
Bangladesh	Bengali
Barbados	English
Belarus	Belarusian
Belarus	Russian
Belgium	Dutch
	French
	German
Belize	English
Benin	French
Bhutan	Dzongkha
Bolivia	Aymara
	Quechua
	Spanish
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian)
	Serbo-Croatian (Croatian)
	Serbo-Croatian (Serbian)
Botswana	English
Botswana	Tswana
Brazil	Portuguese
Brunei	Malay
Bulgaria	Bulgarian
Burkina Faso	Bissa
	Dyula
	Fula
	Mooré
Burundi	English
	French
	Kirundi
Cambodia	Khmer
Cameroon	English
Cameroon	French
Canada	English
Canada	French
Cape Verde	Portuguese
Central African Republic	French
Central African Republic	Sango
Chad	Arabic
Chad	French
Chile	Spanish
China	Chinese (Mandarin)
Colombia	Spanish
Comoros	Arabic
	Comorian
	French
Costa Rica	Spanish
Croatia	Serbo-Croatian (Croatian)
Cuba	Spanish
Cyprus	Greek
Cyprus	Turkish
Czech Republic	Czech
D.R. Congo	French
Denmark	Danish
Djibouti	Arabic
Djibouti	French
Dominica	English
Dominican Republic	Spanish
East Timor	Portuguese
East Timor	Tetum
Ecuador	Spanish
Egypt	Arabic
El Salvador	Spanish
Equatorial Guinea	French
	Portuguese
	Spanish
Eritrea	Tigrinya


Estonia	Estonian
Eswatini	English
Eswatini	Swazi
Ethiopia	Afar
	Amharic
	Oromo
	Somali
	Tigrinya
Fed. States of Micronesia	English
Fiji	English
	Fijian
	Hindustani (Fiji Hindi)
Finland	Finnish
Finland	Swedish
France	French
Gabon	French
Gambia	English
Georgia	Georgian
Germany	German
Ghana	English

Country	Language
Greece	Greek
Grenada	English
Guatemala	Spanish
Guinea	French
Guinea-Bissau	Portuguese
Guyana	English
Haiti	French
Haiti	Haitian Creole
Honduras	Spanish
Hungary	Hungarian
Iceland	Icelandic
India	English
India	Hindustani (Hindi)
Indonesia	Malay (Indonesian)
Iran	Persian
Iraq	Arabic
Iraq	Kurdish
Ireland	English
Ireland	Irish
Israel	Hebrew
Italy	Italian
Ivory Coast	French
Jamaica	English
Japan	Japanese
Jordan	Arabic
Kazakhstan	Kazakh
Kazakhstan	Russian
Kenya	English
Kenya	Swahili
Kiribati	English
Kiribati	Gilbertese
Kosovo	Albanian
Kosovo	Serbo-Croatian (Serbian)
Kuwait	Arabic
Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyz
Kyrgyzstan	Russian
Laos	Lao
Latvia	Latvian
Lebanon	Arabic
Lesotho	English
Lesotho	Sotho
Liberia	English
Libya	Arabic
Liechtenstein	German
Lithuania	Lithuanian
Luxembourg	French
	German
	Luxembourgish
Madagascar	French
Madagascar	Malagasy
Malawi	English
Malaysia	Malay
Maldives	Maldivian
Mali	Bambara
Malta	English
Malta	Maltese
Marshall Islands	English
Marshall Islands	Marshallese
Mauritania	Arabic
Mauritius	Mauritian Creole
Mexico	Spanish
Moldova	Romanian (Moldovan)
Monaco	French
Mongolia	Mongolian
Montenegro	Serbo-Croatian (Montenegrin)
Morocco	Arabic
Morocco	Berber
Mozambique	Portuguese
Myanmar	Burmese
Namibia	English
Nauru	English
Nauru	Nauruan
Nepal	Nepali
Netherlands	Dutch
New Zealand	English
New Zealand	Māori
Nicaragua	Spanish
Niger	Hausa
Nigeria	English
North Korea	Korean
North Macedonia	Albanian
North Macedonia	Macedonian
Norway	Norwegian
Norway	Sámi
Oman	Arabic
Pakistan	English
Pakistan	Hindustani (Urdu)
Palau	English
Palau	Palauan
Panama	Spanish
Papua New Guinea	English
	Hiri Motu
	Tok Pisin
Paraguay	Guaraní
	Spanish

Country	Language
Peru	Aymara
	Quechua
	Spanish
Philippines	English
Philippines	Filipino
Poland	Polish
Portugal	Portuguese
Qatar	Arabic
Rep. of Congo	French
Romania	Romanian
Russia	Russian
Rwanda	English
	French
	Kinyarwanda
	Swahili
St. Kitts and Nevis	English
St. Lucia	English
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	English
Samoa	English
Samoa	Samoan
San Marino	Italian
São Tomé and Príncipe	Portuguese
Saudi Arabia	Arabic
Senegal	French
Serbia	Serbo-Croatian (Serbian)
Seychelles	English
	French
	Seychellois Creole
Sierra Leone	English
Singapore	Chinese (Mandarin)
	English
	Malay
	Tamil
Slovakia	Slovak
Slovenia	Slovene
Solomon Islands	English
Somalia	Arabic
Somalia	Somali
South Africa	Afrikaans
	English
	Northern Sotho
	Sotho
	Southern Ndebele
	Swazi
	Tsonga
	Tswana
	Venda
	Xhosa
	Zulu
South Korea	Korean
South Sudan	English
Spain	Spanish
Sri Lanka	Sinhala
Sri Lanka	Tamil
Sudan	Arabic
Sudan	English
Suriname	Dutch
Sweden	Swedish


Switzerland	French
	German
	Italian
	Romansh
Syria	Arabic
Taiwan	Chinese (Mandarin)
Tajikistan	Persian (Tajik)
Tanzania	English
Tanzania	Swahili
Thailand	Thai
Togo	French
Tonga	English
Tonga	Tongan
Trinidad and Tobago	English
Tunisia	Arabic
Turkey	Turkish
Turkmenistan	Turkmen
Tuvalu	English
Tuvalu	Tuvaluan
Uganda	English
Uganda	Swahili
Ukraine	Ukrainian
United Arab Emirates	Arabic
United Kingdom	English
United States	English
Uruguay	Spanish
Uzbekistan	Uzbek
Vanuatu	Bislama
	English
	French
Vatican City	Italian
Venezuela	Spanish
Vietnam	Vietnamese
Yemen	Arabic
Zambia	English
Zimbabwe	English
	Northern Ndebele
	Shona

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101 Recent Comments

Level 55

Oct 24, 2021

India actually has 22+1(English) official languages namely, Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

Level 49

Oct 15, 2025

India's "official" languges are English and Hindi; the remaining Schedule 8 are languages officially recognized by the Government of India but not "official langauges"

Level 78

Oct 25, 2021

Mauritius has no official language as per our constitution. Mauritian Creole is the mother tongue of around 95% of the population and our most common day to day language. English is the most common working language with French as the second most common working language and it is also the second most popular language for conversations. French is the main language of our media. English and French are also very commonly used in conversations, specially among the younger generations. We are proudly trilingual (at least) and it is very common to hear many people using Mauritian Creole, French and English during a conversation. Bhojpuri is the mother tongue of around 5% of the population and is quite popular as the first or second language of the older generation of people of Indian origin (around two third of the population is of Indian origin, mainly the Hindu and the Muslim population).

Level 92

Oct 26, 2021

Interesting and educational.

Level 86

Nov 8, 2021

What language is used to publish laws, in parliament, courts etc? That's what makes it a de facto official language.

Level 78

Oct 24, 2023

English is the legal and legislative language, but French is widely accepted as well.

Level 88

Oct 3, 2025

Although the constitution does not specify an official language, the constitution itself was written in English, which I think makes it at least somewhat official.

Level ∞

Oct 3, 2025

Yeah. It wasn't specified because the founders just assumed that, obviously, English would be the only language used.

Level 14

Oct 28, 2021

great quiz. minor one, but Welsh (Cymraeg) is an official language of the UK

Level 54

Dec 14, 2021

This quiz does not count regional language, and Welsh is only official in Wales.

Level 22

Nov 4, 2021

very nice quiz

Level 16

Nov 9, 2021

This one was very hard nice quiz tho i really like it

Level 60

Nov 11, 2021

Taiwan (Republic of China) has passed the National Languages Development Law, now we Taiwanese have multiple national languages, including Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, Matsu, and Formosan languages. Also, Taiwan does not have an official language so national language is all we have.

By the way, Chinese is not a language but more like a language family since for example, Mandarin and Cantonese are definitely mutual unintelligible, so please do not include Chinese as a correct type in.

Level 92

Oct 4, 2025

Chinese is what every nation with it as a language calls it. Even if it is mandarin.

Level 69

Jan 31, 2022

Noice👌

+10

Level 66

Feb 13, 2022

I almost feel bad for people who make these quizzes, so many arguments in chat…

Nice quiz though

Level 67

Jan 31, 2026

I’m with you

Level 76

Mar 1, 2022

FYI Mali changed their official language to Bambara in January.

Level 80

Mar 8, 2022

I forgot English--the only language I know. LOL

Level 54

Mar 18, 2022

Czechia has both Czech and Slovak as official languages, according to Wikipedia.

Level 15

Mar 23, 2022

God help you if Papua New Guinea ever becomes fully plurinational and all 580+ languages become official

Level 54

May 3, 2022

Could Berbar be accepted for Berber

Level 28

May 27, 2022

62/119

Level 44

Aug 7, 2022

Could you accept Mauritius Creole for Mauritian Creole?

Level 24

Aug 13, 2022

I feel having only 3 for bolivia and zimbabwe is not fair as S. africa has 12, and all are included, i'd say narrow all above five down to the five most prominant

Level 26

Aug 22, 2022

Can you accept Sotho for Northern Sotho and Mauritian for Mauritian Creole?

Level 41

Jan 8, 2024

It seems that there is some confusion regarding the distinction between Sotho and Northern Sotho. Could you please clarify the difference between the two? I think that Sotho should be considered as both Northern and Southern Sotho. Other than that, I enjoyed the game.

Level 26

Aug 22, 2022

Languages I forgot: Sango, Afar, Amharic, Chewa, Mauritian Creole, Northern Sotho, Venda, Tsonga, Sinhala, Shona, Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Guarani…

Level 49

Sep 1, 2022

This def needs more time

Level 82

Oct 20, 2023

I agree - I didn't get to the end. At least two more minutes, IMO.

Level 74

Feb 10, 2023

Please accept Chechua for Quechua

Level 82

Nov 13, 2023

It's not pronounced anything like that. Are you thinking of Chichewa, which is the long-form name of the indigenous official language of Malawi?

Level 74

Dec 18, 2023

No, but I read this type of spelling somewhere and that's how I remembered it, unfortunately.

Got better by now.

Thanks, anyway

Level 79

Feb 14, 2023

I tried Creole but I guess it doesn't count because there's multiple variations of it for different countries like Haitian, Mauritian and Seychellois. Got 85

Level 49

Apr 26, 2023

Latin is the only official language of the Vatican, according to Wikipedia, whereas Italian is regarded as the national language. Could you fix it?

Level 99

Oct 20, 2023

The same question here!

Level 90

Dec 18, 2023

Yes and no.

The Wikipedia Page for the Vatican City does mention Latin in the sidebar, yes. However if you follow the source it cites, you'll notice that source actually doesn't say that - in fact it says quite the opposite: that Latin is not an official language of the Vatican.

Also on that same Wikipedia page, if you scroll down to the section on Languages it expands on that and correctly explains that while Latin is used on official documents for the Holy See, it is not an official language of the Vatican.

TL;DR - the sidebar on the Wikipedia page is wrong.

Level 79

May 16, 2023

Level 59

Jun 4, 2023

India DOES NOT have a national language. English and Hindi are correctly shown as official languages here. But 22 other languages are recognised.

Hence, the terms official and national shouldn't be used interchageably.

Level 35

Jun 22, 2023

Can you please accept "Finish" for "Finnish"

Level 48

Dec 18, 2023

Why?

Level 73

Jul 26, 2023

Mali has now local languages as official.

Level 69

Sep 2, 2023

Mali now has 13 different languages as official (French is now a working language and isn't official)

Level 56

Sep 2, 2023

Can you please accept "Seychellois for "Seychellois Creole"?

Level 63

Sep 26, 2023

South Africa Sign Language is now an official language of South Africa. Also would be nice if the quiztaker had to guess "sign language".

Level 75

Oct 20, 2023

What do you mean Mali's language is called "they wear it"? Despite how they felt towards the French, according to Google their national language is still French.

Level ∞

Oct 22, 2023

Google is not a source. According to the government of Mali, there are 13 official languages, French not among them.

Level 78

Oct 22, 2023

The quiz info says Bolivia, Zimbabwe, and Mali all have the most prominent languages shown because they have so many (which is fair). Bolivia and Zimbabwe each have three languages in the quiz, whereas Mali only has one. Should Mali have three too?

Level ∞

Oct 22, 2023

No. There's a clear cutoff between #1 and #2.

Level 72

Oct 23, 2023

Bambara is spoken by 46.3% of the population, then it drops down to Fula at 9.4%.

As for Bolivia, 75% speaks Spanish, 25% speaks Quechua, and 16.77% speak Aymara before it drops to Guarani with 0.69%. A cutoff of 3 seems logical.

And finally Zimbabwe, 40% speaks Shona, 35% speaks northern Ndebele, and finally English with 85% of the population speaking it as a second language.

Level 78

Jan 27, 2024

Makes sense. Thanks!

Level 72

Oct 22, 2023

I like how Pakistan speaks Hindustani

Level 38

Oct 23, 2023

You should accept Welsh for the UK, as it is an official language with equal status to English

Level ∞

Oct 23, 2023

The United Kingdom doesn't have an official language. The overwhelming majority of people speak English. That's why English is the de-facto national language.

Welsh is spoken by a tiny minority. Even in Wales, few speak it as their first language.

Why not add Polish or Punjabi? Those languages have more speakers in the UK than Welsh does.

Level 76

Oct 29, 2023

Because Welsh is an indigenous language, whereas Polish and Punjabi are not. Welsh is a de jure official language of Wales, but I guess it is omitted because this quiz treats Wales as a "region", and not a country, in the United Kingdom.

Level 67

Jan 31, 2026

As it should be treated

Level 76

Oct 25, 2023

English is (surprisingly) not an official language of New Zealand. Only Maori and NZ Sign Language are. Recent attempts to enshrine English legally as an official language have gone nowhere. At the recent 2023 general election one party leader (whose party, NZ First, gained 6% of the vote) campaigned on making English official.

Level 76

Dec 10, 2023

Still not yet corrected!

Level 76

Dec 12, 2023

I'll encourage you to sign this petition if you want English to be an official language of New Zealand (and make the quiz answer correct in the process).

Level 76

Dec 14, 2023

This article will also enlighten you :)

Level ∞

Dec 14, 2023

Okay, I accept it. The problem is that English is of course the de-facto national language of New Zealand. And we have the bizarre situation where Maori is official and English is not.

So it defeats my color scheme system. Maybe I'll do something about it at some point.

Level 47

Mar 8, 2024

83/120 pretty good for a 12 year old!

Level 72

Jun 12, 2024

Inputting Serbian, Croatian or Montenegrin should automatically fill in any of the three. The quiz acknowledges them to be the same language; so why are they distinguished?

Level 55

Aug 4, 2024

How did I forget Danish.......

Level 70

Aug 21, 2024

Why is Haitian not accepted for Haitian Creole? Haitian works just fine in other quizzes

Level 70

Aug 21, 2024

Also why does "Ndebele" work for south and north but "Sotho" only works for south

Level 58

Sep 21, 2024

1. "northern sotho" should fall under "sotho"

2. "creole" should be accepted for "haitian creole"

Level 58

Nov 15, 2024

there's 2 other creoles on this list so nah

Level 91

Sep 23, 2024

Having to name all of the South African languages is a chore. Maybe treat it like Bolivia?

Level 47

Dec 6, 2024

how did you merge the cells for the quiz? for example, including multiple languages for one country. Im trying to do the same for my quiz but I can't figure out how :/

Level 75

Mar 6, 2025

English is now the de-jure official language of the United States...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/designating-english-as-the-official-language-of-the-united-states/

Level ∞

Oct 2, 2025

I'm not sure to what degree this can be changed by executive order, but Wikipedia lists English as the dejure language now so I've updated it.

Level 57

Mar 6, 2025

Nooo! I was one away from the average score and i was typing Azerbaijani as the time was running out! 😭

Level 22

Apr 24, 2025

ghana speaks twi, not english

Level ∞

Oct 2, 2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana

Level 29

May 16, 2025

rip 98.4% only didnt know Afar and Hiri Motu

Level 44

Jun 2, 2025

No Surinamese Hindi?

Level ∞

Oct 2, 2025

Level 79

Aug 21, 2025

Sámi is sometimes rendered in English as Saami with two As, can this be accepted?

Level 19

Sep 21, 2025

I somehow forgot dutch💀

Level 68

Sep 28, 2025

Burkina Faso no longer has French as an official language, and has 4 languages, Mooré, Bissa, Dyula and Fula, as official.

Level ∞

Oct 3, 2025

Updated. Also updated Niger.

Prediction, in the coming decades, some African countries will drop French as a lingua franca in favor of English.

Level 93

Oct 3, 2025

Why does Hindi not work for Fiji?

Level 70

Oct 3, 2025

80/124 only earning a single point does feel just a little bit harsh on this one

Level 76

Oct 4, 2025

one more correct would have gotten you 2 points :)

Level 67

Jan 31, 2026

Damn, that makes it even worse 💀

Level 59

Oct 4, 2025

Me not knowing jack about world languages but getting half of them right by either partially typing their name or adding some suffix like "-an", "-ish", or literally just adding "n" at the end...how original (yes I know some of them were just type-ins)

Level 55

Oct 8, 2025

Spain has four official languages: Castilian, Basque, Galician and Catalan

Level 43

Oct 8, 2025

got all of them except for the new burkinabè ones.... dyula fula mooré and..... oh yeah bissa

Level 75

Oct 23, 2025

Time to update, English is now also an official language of New Zealand.

Level 34

Oct 30, 2025

My process for getting most of them: 1) Guessing languages of major colonizing forces to get about two thirds of the answers. 2) Brute-forcing adjective forms of remaining countries. 3) Relying on my own cultural background and miscellaneous knowledge (the main strategy on Jetpunk). 4) Randomly typing other languages or words that sound like languages.

Level 65

Nov 4, 2025

I would have gotten Romansh for Switzerland, but for some reason my eyes just went right over it and I didn't even comprehend it was there.

Level 32

Nov 5, 2025

zimbabwe has 16 official languages, something you would have found out if you simply searched it up: Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Koisa, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona (sign language is also an official language, but we'll ignore that), Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda and Xhosa.

Level 51

Nov 5, 2025

In Spain we have other co-official languages besides Spanish: Galician, Basque, Catalan, Valencian, Balearic. These are not dialects or language variants, these are official, recognized languages in Spain and in Europe!

Level 69

Nov 6, 2025

Yes but they are only official in specific regions, hence not counted for this quizz.

Level 45

Nov 14, 2025

Welsh is a national language of the UK

Level 53

Jan 16, 2026

Add Kurdish for Syria. A presidential decree recognized it as a national language. https://sana.sy/en/politics/2290787/

(same goes for all other "official language" quizzes)

Level 84

Feb 17, 2026

Seems weird to accept Seychellois but not Mauritian or Haitian, wiki doesn't seem to say Seychellois is a particular amount more mononymically known

Level 34

Feb 23, 2026

could not spell norwegian to save my life

Level 61

Mar 4, 2026

got Sango and Bislama but missed Afrikaans and Maltese :|

Level 43

Mar 19, 2026

You should add Pidgin English or Pidgin - Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea is 'Talk Pidgin'.

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