into existence and old countries change their names or official languages. In addition to official languages, the list includes some major ‘national’ languages - those spoken by large numbers of people in a country even though they are not widely used in government or education - and languages that are official in particular regions but not in the country as a whole; languages in these two categories are given in parentheses. But sometimes the boundaries among these categories are unclear, so there may be a few discrepancies in the list. Alternate language names are separated by a slash. Afghanistan Pashtu, Dari/Afghan Persian Albania Albanian Algeria Arabic Andorra Catalan Angola Portuguese Antigua and Barbuda English Arab Emirates Arabic Argentina Spanish Armenia Armenian Australia English Austria German Azerbaijan Azeri / Azerbaij ani Bahamas English Bahrain Arabic Bangladesh Bengali Barbados English Belarus Byelorussian, Russian Belgium French, Dutch (German) Belize English
into existence and old countries change their names or official languages. In addition to official languages, the list includes some major ‘national’ languages - those spoken by large numbers of people in a country even though they are not widely used in government or education - and languages that are official in particular regions but not in the country as a whole; languages in these two categories are given in parentheses. But sometimes the boundaries among these categories are unclear, so there may be a few discrepancies in the list. Alternate language names are separated by a slash. Afghanistan Pashtu, Dari/Afghan Persian Albania Albanian Algeria Arabic Andorra Catalan Angola Portuguese Antigua and Barbuda English Arab Emirates Arabic Argentina Spanish Armenia Armenian Australia English Austria German Azerbaijan Azeri / Azerbaij ani Bahamas English Bahrain Arabic Bangladesh Bengali Barbados English Belarus Byelorussian, Russian Belgium French, Dutch (German) Belize English