@@tunistick8044 The only reason we have English as an official language because South India, which speaks Dravidian languages, not Indo-European which is a completely different, unrelated language group and when Hindi was going to be declared the national language, there widespread protests against the act.
@@ItsZim0 no, it isnt. Tamil along with Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam are Dravidian and HIndi is Indo-Iranian, a sub category of the larger Indo-European language family.
As a South African, it's very normal to walk down the road and here different languages being spoken. Hell, sometimes people would switch between two or more languages whilst having a conversation. I never really thought about how strange this would be for people not used to something like this.
@@Noor_Jacobs03 how can there be different languages in the same city? i understand countries like switzerland only one language is used in each region
@@craftah. A lot of people in my city, for example, speak English, Afrikaans and Zulu. But we also have a lot of foreigners, including people from other parts of the continent. My barber is from Burundi. He speaks French, Zulu, Swahili and English. There There are people here from from neighbouring countries like Angola and Mozambique, who speak Portugese. And other French speaking countries in Africa (Africa is the continent with the largest French speakers. Hell, a chick in my area is Italian. I can go on about the German, Dutch and Arabic speakers, but I don't want to make this comment longer than it already is. Hopefully you get my point.
@@GipsyK6345 no. English is not native language of ours. We speak English either to show off or speak as a bridge between people who don't speak each other 's language.
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 IIRC, French is an official language in the Aosta Valley region only, German in the South Tyrol region only and Slovenian in Friuli-Venezi Giula region only
The Philippines has two official languages (Filipino and Philippine English), two recognized historical languages (Spanish and Arabic), and 11 regional languages (taught in school under the mother tongue course).
@@Noor_Jacobs03 Nominally around 80-90%, but this is not account the skill level or their competency, as many Filipinos can read English but may not understand it fully, or speak it.
@@FairyCRat I'm pretty sure Indonesia would have more languages than PNG. Since they own the other half of New Guinea, they'd at least have the same amount of languages as PNG does, and on top of that it has the other languages from the Malay archipelago.
@@jasminekaram880 de facto sure, but not official. My Blue Cross insurance instructions are printed in around 30 languages. And Home Depot, a home store, has department signs in both English and Spanish because they understand their customer base.
@@timmmahhhh the US forces immigrants to pass an English test. Which sucks because English isn't an American language but a language of invading colonists. They should allow tests in Navajo, Cherokee, Hawaiian, etc, and maybe Spanish as well, knowing that the southwest of the US used to be Mexican
I didn’t know that my country, Japan doesn’t have the official language. Also, Angaur state in Palau is the only region where has specified Japanese as an official language.
My country has a lot of languages (I forgot how many) like: English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilonggo, Bikolano, etc. I speak Tagalog, English, Bikolano, Japanese, and Spanish. Dios Mabalos!
In Croatia we have: Croatian, Italian, Serbian, Czech, Hungarian… whenever any of many national minorities exceed 33% of population in a municipality (over 550), their language becomes official. However, it has to be a specific national minority - over 25 of them
My country France only has one official language. One linguist here estimated there might be about 75 regional minority languages, but sadly none are official.
In Australia, the US and the UK: zero de jure nationwide. In Vietnam: Vietnamese. In Thailand: Thai. In Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania: respectively Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian.
In Argentina, Spanish is official de facto, since there isn't any law where it states it as the official language, and it's not mentioned in the Constitution, either
In Czechia, only Czech is official, but there are recognized minority languages: Polish, Slovak, Vietnamese, Ukrainan, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romani, russian
I'm half Italian and half Portuguese In Italy, Italian is the only official language, while in Portugal there are two official languages: Portuguese and Mirandese, which is spoken in an area of North-East Portugal, especially in a town called Miranda do Douro
Bolivia's 37 languages are not really used as official languages, and most of them are spoken by the 0.01% of the population (therefore, there's no reason to have them as official). Spanish is spoken by basically everyone, and I could understand why Aymara and Quechua could be official, but the rest of languages is to show plurality and indigenous recognition, which is sometimes not what happens in reality.
I don't know where you got 50. Last I checked (a few months ago) there were 35 languages that were official in various federal subjects (what you call "national republics"). At the national level there is only one (Russian, of course).
@@langfocusclips I mean 37 for various federal subjects/republics and about 15 that have official status, like Finnish in Karelian Republic. But definitions of official or national languiage are quite different for each country as I can undrstand from your video. P.S. thanks for your conten!
In Serbia, Serbian is main, but every ethnic minority can use own. So there are: Serbian, Albanian, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Rusyn. There are some reginal dialects of Serbo-Croatian, like Bunjevac, Bosniak, Montenegrin and Gorani. There are also a lot of Roma people.
Germany technically only has one official language (german obvs) but Romanes, Upper and Lower Sorbian, Danish and North and Sater Frisian are recognised as minority languages and Low German as a regional language
Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg have the most in Europe, at 3 each. All three have German and French as official, while Belgium also has Dutch, Luxembourg also has Luxembourgish, and Switzerland also has Italian, although Romansh is spoken there, it ain't official. Honorable mentions: Spain has many regional languages, but probably aren't official. Same with Italy, France and the United Kingdom. The Netherlands also have Frisian and English as regional languages, yes, English.
Well im from djibouti and we have 2 official languages which is french and arabic, But the dominat languages are French and Somali and i speak both of em
India has so many languages that my state of Manipur alone has 26 different languages unique to my state alone(These are NOT spoken anywhere else in India). Before anyone says "These aren't official languages", well I wasn't claiming they are. I'm merely stating a small info about Manipur.
My country has two official languages and one legally recognised one: Irish, English and Ullans (Ullans is a dialect of Scots which is not Scottish English but an separate low German language in Scotland). Canada has two??? What about all of the First Nations’ languages?
My country India has 22 scheduled languages(don't know how to define it 😅) and 2 official languages (not national languages) that are Hindi and English.
I'm viewing this on mobile, so I can't read some of the languages because of the Subscribe button. Paul, I'd appreciate if you made sure not to put anything on the very bottom of the screen.
Iraq has two official languages (arabic and kurdish) although it has other indigenous languages. But didn't you make that video already with , if I remember correctly, Indonesia and USA?
The USA has no official federal languages, though most states and territories have English as their official language and a few have more. Indonesia has only one official language, although I think some regions and towns have declared additional official languages.
I made a video a long time ago (over 6 years ago) about the country with the most languages spoken, not the most official languages. I talked about Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Nigeria. I may have mentioned the USA, but I don't remember that part.
I have done a lot of research on it. Those 22 languages are "scheduled languages" and they have a different status from "official languages". India has 2 official languages at the national level: Hindi and English. Most of the scheduled languages are official languages at the *state* level, but in the video I am talking about official languages at the national level.
Other countries making the languages spoken by the tribal people, while India still not making official, some of the oldest languages in the World, which are spoken by millions of people for years...
The de facto official language is very much Japanese, but there’s no law that says so. Probably because there has never been a need to make such a law.
@@langfocusclips Yeah, interestingly out of 6 countries in the core Anglosphere, 4 of them are in that case as well: the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand. Only Canada and Ireland are officially English-speaking, although most American states and territories also are.
🇮🇳🇮🇳India has no official language. Technically, Hindi and English are the official languages but they are not. Our country has 22 recognized languages🇮🇳🇮🇳
Actually, while there is no 'official' language, rhe General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Ley General de Derechos Lingüísticos de los Pueblos Indígenas) recognises 68 national Indigenous languages.
No, it only has 2. The 22 languages everyone talks about are called “scheduled languages” and have a different status. I’ve written this about 1000 times in the comments on the main channel, because so many people think they’re official languages.
They’re not official languages. The 32 languages are called “scheduled languages” and have a different status from the 2 official languages at the national level (Hindi and English). Source: The constitution of India.
how is those ones the top 3 maybe do more research Nigeria clearly has 700+ languages most state in Nigeria has more than 10 languages and not everyone understand the pidgin English people speak or the normal English too 🤷 Papua New Guinea has many more Philippines has alot too 😅 🤦♀️ and they ain't mentioned 🤷🤷 there are many more countries
For people asking why India isn't on no 2 -
India has 22 *SCHEDULED* languages, while there are only 2 official languages - Hindi and English.
they still simp for the uk?
@@tunistick8044 The only reason we have English as an official language because South India, which speaks Dravidian languages, not Indo-European which is a completely different, unrelated language group and when Hindi was going to be declared the national language, there widespread protests against the act.
@@saathvikbogam wait, So Tamil is not in the same language family as Hindi?
@@ItsZim0 no, it isnt. Tamil along with Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam are Dravidian and HIndi is Indo-Iranian, a sub category of the larger Indo-European language family.
Hindi and English aren't even official languages... they are actually national languages
So India has no official language
As a South African, it's very normal to walk down the road and here different languages being spoken. Hell, sometimes people would switch between two or more languages whilst having a conversation. I never really thought about how strange this would be for people not used to something like this.
that means your country isnt really a country
@@craftah. And why is that?
@@Noor_Jacobs03 how can there be different languages in the same city? i understand countries like switzerland only one language is used in each region
@@craftah. A lot of people in my city, for example, speak English, Afrikaans and Zulu. But we also have a lot of foreigners, including people from other parts of the continent.
My barber is from Burundi. He speaks French, Zulu, Swahili and English. There
There are people here from from neighbouring countries like Angola and Mozambique, who speak Portugese. And other French speaking countries in Africa (Africa is the continent with the largest French speakers.
Hell, a chick in my area is Italian.
I can go on about the German, Dutch and Arabic speakers, but I don't want to make this comment longer than it already is. Hopefully you get my point.
@@Noor_Jacobs03 not good life imo. i bet most of them cant speak english very well
India has 2 official languages.
Hindi and English.
But states are allowed to have their official language as well.
If I'm correct English is becoming more popular?
@@GipsyK6345 no.
English is not native language of ours.
We speak English either to show off or speak as a bridge between people who don't speak each other 's language.
@@Maitreya-7777 Oh okay.
@@GipsyK6345 English is more popular than Hindi in southern and north eastern parts whilst the rest mostly prefers hindi
@@jcxkzhgco3050 the North Eastern guys knows how to speak in Hindi. Unlike the South Indian ones.
I am from Finland: we have Finnish and Swedish
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In italy: Italian, German, French, Slovenian
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@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 IIRC, French is an official language in the Aosta Valley region only, German in the South Tyrol region only and Slovenian in Friuli-Venezi Giula region only
@@videonofan sure right uh huh
Italy has only one official language, wtf are you on about
@@fanaticofmetal CHE DI CERTO NON È L' INGLESE!!
The Philippines has two official languages (Filipino and Philippine English), two recognized historical languages (Spanish and Arabic), and 11 regional languages (taught in school under the mother tongue course).
What percentage of people in your country do you think are able to speak English? Asking out of curiosity.
At least a sizeable majority, code switching is quite common even in Tagalog.@@Noor_Jacobs03
Spanish is way more important
@@Noor_Jacobs03 Nominally around 80-90%, but this is not account the skill level or their competency, as many Filipinos can read English but may not understand it fully, or speak it.
@@studiosnch Oh, so the majority can speak English, but to varying degrees of fluency?
Indonesia only has 1 official language while having 700+ regional languages.
Papua New Guinea: where am I 😭
They have the largest number of spoken languages, but only 3 are official, 4 if you count their sign language.
@@FairyCRat I'm pretty sure Indonesia would have more languages than PNG. Since they own the other half of New Guinea, they'd at least have the same amount of languages as PNG does, and on top of that it has the other languages from the Malay archipelago.
ru dumb?
if u dont know what official means then dont comment dude
@@gamermapperBigger geographical area doesn't larger diversity between language, even though it has other half of it
If we take regional official languages into consideration then here in Russia it's 35.
The United States doesn't have an official language.
Well not at federal level, but I would argue your country has English as de facto official language in federal level.
@@jasminekaram880 de facto sure, but not official. My Blue Cross insurance instructions are printed in around 30 languages. And Home Depot, a home store, has department signs in both English and Spanish because they understand their customer base.
@@timmmahhhh the US forces immigrants to pass an English test. Which sucks because English isn't an American language but a language of invading colonists. They should allow tests in Navajo, Cherokee, Hawaiian, etc, and maybe Spanish as well, knowing that the southwest of the US used to be Mexican
@@gamermapper True, but you can't really survive in America without knowing English.
I must admit that not all American states have the official language of English. That’s why the United States of American does not have it.
Aymara, the main indigenous language of Bolivia, is written using Hangul
imagine trying to fill out a ballot in 37 different languages
They just do it in Spanish they all understand Spanish
I didn’t know that my country, Japan doesn’t have the official language. Also, Angaur state in Palau is the only region where has specified Japanese as an official language.
and yet nobody there speaks Japanese
My country has a lot of languages (I forgot how many) like: English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilonggo, Bikolano, etc. I speak Tagalog, English, Bikolano, Japanese, and Spanish. Dios Mabalos!
What state/province/territory of a country has the most official languages. e.g. being how Canada has two, but Nunavut has three
The Northwest Territories have 11.
@@FairyCRat I didn't know that, thanks for sharing!
In Croatia we have: Croatian, Italian, Serbian, Czech, Hungarian… whenever any of many national minorities exceed 33% of population in a municipality (over 550), their language becomes official. However, it has to be a specific national minority - over 25 of them
Yo imagine having an official language 🤣
‘MURICA
@@drkclshr 'Murica certainly pushes to have just one language, but America does not.
well its english in the us definetely
@@craftah no because ‘Murica doesn’t have an official language
‘Muricans just know what language to speak
@@drkclshr i know but i mean it should be english for obvious reasons
I from India 🇮🇳, speak English, Hindi, Odia (Mother Tounge), Punjabi, Haryanvi, Urdu!!!
Paul, thanks for pushing out more content!!!
Papua New Guinea punching air rn
My country France only has one official language. One linguist here estimated there might be about 75 regional minority languages, but sadly none are official.
Some of those languages listed are also extinct.
Namibia 🇳🇦 we have 12 officials languages and where southafrica 🇿🇦 and Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 are our bordering countries
In Australia, the US and the UK: zero de jure nationwide.
In Vietnam: Vietnamese.
In Thailand: Thai.
In Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania: respectively Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian.
In Argentina, Spanish is official de facto, since there isn't any law where it states it as the official language, and it's not mentioned in the Constitution, either
In Czechia, only Czech is official, but there are recognized minority languages: Polish, Slovak, Vietnamese, Ukrainan, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romani, russian
Why Vietnamise?
@@andresgalindo7682 lots of Vietnamese people, could say they're a minority
🇲🇫 : only French
🇩🇿 : Arabic and "Tamazight" (the problem is that there are at least five Amazigh different languages in the country)
Papua New Guinea: sad tribal noises
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 sitting in the back. (They don’t know the power I hold)
(Ik it’s because of official languages, but who beats 834)
PNG is the most linguistically diverse country in the world, for sure.
My country Algeria has three Arabic French and Berber
I'm half Italian and half Portuguese
In Italy, Italian is the only official language, while in Portugal there are two official languages: Portuguese and Mirandese, which is spoken in an area of North-East Portugal, especially in a town called Miranda do Douro
Bolivia's 37 languages are not really used as official languages, and most of them are spoken by the 0.01% of the population (therefore, there's no reason to have them as official). Spanish is spoken by basically everyone, and I could understand why Aymara and Quechua could be official, but the rest of languages is to show plurality and indigenous recognition, which is sometimes not what happens in reality.
and USA has the fewest, at zero, which i'm very happy with :)
It's not the only country where that's the case though
@@FairyCRat true but you can't get lower than zero ;)
Russian Federation has about 50 languages with official status. 37 of them are official in national republics.
I don't know where you got 50. Last I checked (a few months ago) there were 35 languages that were official in various federal subjects (what you call "national republics"). At the national level there is only one (Russian, of course).
@@langfocusclips I mean 37 for various federal subjects/republics and about 15 that have official status, like Finnish in Karelian Republic. But definitions of official or national languiage are quite different for each country as I can undrstand from your video. P.S. thanks for your conten!
my nation has three, being French, English and Russian.
Wait, what? Where is it? This combo is crazy
@@MsThePrettiest yeah weird af
In Serbia, Serbian is main, but every ethnic minority can use own.
So there are:
Serbian, Albanian, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Rusyn.
There are some reginal dialects of Serbo-Croatian, like Bunjevac, Bosniak, Montenegrin and Gorani.
There are also a lot of Roma people.
What is your advice to a visuially impared person trying to learn languages, especially English?
Germany technically only has one official language (german obvs) but Romanes, Upper and Lower Sorbian, Danish and North and Sater Frisian are recognised as minority languages and Low German as a regional language
Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg have the most in Europe, at 3 each. All three have German and French as official, while Belgium also has Dutch, Luxembourg also has Luxembourgish, and Switzerland also has Italian, although Romansh is spoken there, it ain't official.
Honorable mentions: Spain has many regional languages, but probably aren't official. Same with Italy, France and the United Kingdom. The Netherlands also have Frisian and English as regional languages, yes, English.
>how many OLs does your country have
1
If cooficial in certain regions counts, Spain has 4.
My country, Switzerland, has 4 official languages
Indonesia could be number one easily if the country ever decide to recognize all 719 languages.
Irony: doesn't have a distinguishable Canadian accent hehe ;)
Hebrew, Arabic, English, Russian, and Yiddish
Well im from djibouti and we have 2 official languages which is french and arabic, But the dominat languages are French and Somali and i speak both of em
India has so many languages that my state of Manipur alone has 26 different languages unique to my state alone(These are NOT spoken anywhere else in India).
Before anyone says "These aren't official languages", well I wasn't claiming they are. I'm merely stating a small info about Manipur.
Okay Switzerland will be on here because they have four official languages.
Mind blown.
My country has two official languages and one legally recognised one: Irish, English and Ullans (Ullans is a dialect of Scots which is not Scottish English but an separate low German language in Scotland). Canada has two??? What about all of the First Nations’ languages?
Only one : French, the parisian french
The region of Corsica and the Agglomeration community of Basque country did declare other languages to be official regionally tho
My country India has 22 scheduled languages(don't know how to define it 😅) and 2 official languages (not national languages) that are Hindi and English.
Doesn't hindi & english come under that 22
UK has 4, i mean, welish, scottish, english, irish, irish is spoken in northern ireland
Turkey has only one Official Language: Turkish. But many Languages: Kurdish/Zaza, Arabic, Laz, Persian, Greek, Armenian, Assyrian etc
(sad Papua New Guinea noises)
Only 1 in my country. Korean
Italy has 0 official languages because in the constitution there is no article about Italian as official
Bolivia does not have ANY part of the Atacama desert. Would suggest you look at the results of the War of the Pacific 1879 to 1881.
My country has the fewest official languages
Istg this is the guy from horrible histories
I'm viewing this on mobile, so I can't read some of the languages because of the Subscribe button. Paul, I'd appreciate if you made sure not to put anything on the very bottom of the screen.
🤷♂️ Yes sir.
My country only has portuguese as an official language 🇧🇷
why need alot of national language
Indonesia has 700 languages and just ONE unifying national language
it works very efficiently
Brazil. Your can travel for days and you only have to speak Portuguese..
As a American none because remember the us doesn’t have an official language
Iraq has two official languages (arabic and kurdish) although it has other indigenous languages. But didn't you make that video already with , if I remember correctly, Indonesia and USA?
The USA has no official federal languages, though most states and territories have English as their official language and a few have more. Indonesia has only one official language, although I think some regions and towns have declared additional official languages.
I made a video a long time ago (over 6 years ago) about the country with the most languages spoken, not the most official languages. I talked about Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Nigeria. I may have mentioned the USA, but I don't remember that part.
As an American, we don’t have any official languages. However a majority of Americans can only speak English
bro you should do some research on India 22 official but more than 100 languages with millions of native speakers.
I have done a lot of research on it. Those 22 languages are "scheduled languages" and they have a different status from "official languages". India has 2 official languages at the national level: Hindi and English. Most of the scheduled languages are official languages at the *state* level, but in the video I am talking about official languages at the national level.
My country (Brazil) has two official languages: Portuguese and Libras (Brazilian sign language).
2 they are Finnish and Swedish
Only 1 in Iran.
My country (Poland) has 2 languages one of course is Polish (official) and the 2nd (unofficial) is body language 😂
my country has 1 official language that is portuguese
I live in Brazil
Algeria = Arabic + Berber
My country 16😮
Other countries making the languages spoken by the tribal people, while India still not making official, some of the oldest languages in the World, which are spoken by millions of people for years...
Just one
In my country, Japan, have 0 official languages.
The de facto official language is very much Japanese, but there’s no law that says so. Probably because there has never been a need to make such a law.
@@langfocusclips Yeah, interestingly out of 6 countries in the core Anglosphere, 4 of them are in that case as well: the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand. Only Canada and Ireland are officially English-speaking, although most American states and territories also are.
🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼
My is 1 im sure
My country has zero.😊
1 language: Romanian
🇮🇳🇮🇳India has no official language. Technically, Hindi and English are the official languages but they are not. Our country has 22 recognized languages🇮🇳🇮🇳
In my country we are all fluent in Idiot
Chinada ‘s official language will be Chinese
Tons of offical regional languages in China. Just Mandarin federally
You can ask if their people speak Afrikaans?😂
Mexico doesn’t have any.
Actually, while there is no 'official' language, rhe General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Ley General de Derechos Lingüísticos de los Pueblos Indígenas) recognises 68 national Indigenous languages.
Shouldn’t India be at no 2?
No, it only has 2. The 22 languages everyone talks about are called “scheduled languages” and have a different status.
I’ve written this about 1000 times in the comments on the main channel, because so many people think they’re official languages.
@@langfocusclips thanks, I didn’t know that!
In America, the de facto official language is American.
And it was once the official language of Illinois.
None!
None
fake french you mean
India has 22 official languages....
They’re not official languages. The 32 languages are called “scheduled languages” and have a different status from the 2 official languages at the national level (Hindi and English).
Source: The constitution of India.
how is those ones the top 3
maybe do more research
Nigeria clearly has 700+ languages most state in Nigeria has more than 10 languages
and not everyone understand the pidgin English people speak or the normal English too 🤷
Papua New Guinea has many more
Philippines has alot too 😅 🤦♀️ and they ain't mentioned 🤷🤷 there are many more countries
Nigeria, Philippines and Paupa New Guinea have many fewer offical languages then this
Russia has 34. So it's #2
Those aren’t official at the national level. Only in the federal subjects (ie. like states/provinces).
Sir, india have 19 offical Language ........
No, it doesnt. Hindi is the only offical language and then India as 22 other scheduled languages that aren’t offical at the federal level.