A national language is a language (or language variant, e.g. dialect) that has some connection—de facto or de jure—with a nation. The term is applied quite...

Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians...

The National Languages Committee was established in 1919 by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China with the purpose of standardizing and popularizing...

The National Language Service promotes and facilitates communication across languages in South Africa. The NLS' core objective is to meet the language requirements...

Filipino, [ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞]) is a language under the Austronesian language family. It is the national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of...

Philippines, and as a second language by the majority, mostly as or through Filipino. Its standardized, codified, national or nationalized, intellectualized...

indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua...

state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. Official language A language designated as having a unique legal...

and officially the national language of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. As such, Luxembourgish is different from the German language also used in the Grand...

secondary language, co-official with Arabic as the primary language. Notes: In Spain, Spanish is the sole official language at the national level, while...

national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian, and Romansh. German, French, and Italian maintain equal status as official languages at...

the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred and dominant language used...

Tagalog, as the national language and an official language along with English. Filipino is regulated by Commission on the Filipino Language and serves as...

distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. For example, a language is often defined as a set of mutually intelligible varieties, but independent national standard...

22 languages have been classified as recognised languages under the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India. There is no designated national language...

the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua...

due to migration. Languages in Indonesia are classified into nine categories: national language, locally used indigenous languages, regional lingua francas...

This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Chinese...

The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2...

accent of the speaker. Standard Swedish, spoken by most Swedes, is the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th century...

where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously...

The languages of Taiwan consist of several varieties of languages under the families of Austronesian languages and Sino-Tibetan languages. The Formosan...

Persianised register of the Hindustani language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan...

indigenous languages and 24 living non-indigenous languages, with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern Tai family, and the national language...

minority languages, insofar as they are the national language of a stateless nation. There is no scholarly consensus on what a "minority language" is, because...

Constitution of Mexico does not declare an official language; however, Spanish is the de facto national language spoken by over 99% of the population making it...

government in their native languages. In countries that do not formally designate an official language, a de facto national language usually evolves. English...

The indigenous languages of Malaysia belong to the Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian families. The national, or official, language is Malay which is the...

lingua francas. They serve as working languages in the country, with Swahili being the official national language. There are more speakers of Swahili than...

expression of Indian national unity during the Indian Independence movement, and continues to be spoken as the common language of the people of the northern...