Re: CHAT: Call for help

> I would appreciate some help from members of the Conlang list.  At the
> end of this message is a list of 225 language-country pairs, where
> the language is an "official or national" language of the country.
> For example, French is an official language of Cameroon, and so is
> English, and they both appear in the list below.  English is not an
> official language in the U.S., but it is clearly the national language
> and so also appears below.  Spanish also appears because it is official
> in New Mexico, a sovereign state of the U.S.
Amazingly, Texas has no official language, but it's a de facto bilingual
state. English is the sole official language of the vast majority of US
states (and every Southern state except Texas), and shares official status
with Hawai'ian in Hawai'i.

I remember riding a bus through a part of town in Seattle where all the
signs were in both Korean and English, with the English part often being
smaller and written underneath the Korean. That's the Language Police for
ya....

> Languages that are official in only one country are omitted.  Finnish is
> official in Finland, but nowhere else, so it is omitted; Swedish appears
> because it is official in both Finland and Sweden.  As a result, only 27
> languages appear:  Arabic(22), Bengali(3), Chamorro(2), Croatian(2),
> Danish(2), Dutch(5), English(76), French(39), German(7), Greek(2),
> Hungarian(2), Italian(5), Korean(2), Lingala(2), Malay(3), Mandarin
> Chinese(3), Portuguese(7), Serbian(2), Sindhi(2), Spanish(22), Swahili(2),
> Swati(2), Swedish(2), Tamil(2), Tswana(2), Turkish(3), Urdu(2).
Punjabi *might* be official in Pakistan, but I'm not really sure. I think
it's called Lahnda there, and written in Arabic script rather than Gurmukhi.

Well... Persian has three main dialects and each is official in one country:
Farsi in Iran, Dari (Afghani) in Afghanistan, Tajik in Tajikistan. But those
are more often considered separate languages aren't they?

Tigrinya is spoken in both Eritrea (where it is official) and Ethiopia
(where it is not official but is still widespread). English and Arabic are
both also co-official in Eritrea, which became independent from Ethiopia in
1993.

You also have the numerous cases of Autonomous Republics in Russia, where
Russian shares official status with Tatar, Chechen, Bashkir, Chuvash, Yakut,
Buryat blah blah blah....

The best place to look for verification is, not suprisingly, the SIL
Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com)!

~Danny~

> ar-AE Arabic United+Arab+Emirates
> ar-BH Arabic Bahrain
> ar-DZ Arabic Algeria
> ar-EG Arabic Egypt
> ar-IL Arabic Israel
> ar-IQ Arabic Iraq
> ar-JO Arabic Jordan
> ar-KW Arabic Kuwait
> ar-LB Arabic Lebanon
> ar-LY Arabic Libya
> ar-MA Arabic Morocco
> ar-MR Arabic Mauritania
> ar-OM Arabic Oman
> ar-PS Arabic Palestinian+West+Bank+and+Ga
> ar-QA Arabic Qatar
> ar-SA Arabic Saudi+Arabia
> ar-SD Arabic Sudan
> ar-SO Arabic Somalia
> ar-SY Arabic Syria
> ar-TD Arabic Chad
> ar-TN Arabic Tunisia
> ar-YE Arabic Yemen
> bn-BD Bengali Bangladesh
> bn-IN Bengali India
> bn-SG Bengali Singapore
> ch-GU Chamorro Guam
> ch-MP Chamorro Northern+Mariana+Islands
> da-DK Danish Denmark
> da-GL Danish Greenland
> de-AT German Austria
> de-BE German Belgium
> de-CH German Switzerland
> de-DE German Germany
> de-DK German Denmark
> de-LI German Liechtenstein
> de-LU German Luxembourg
> el-CY Greek Cyprus
> el-GR Greek Greece
> en-AG English Antigua+and+Barbuda
> en-AI English Anguilla
> en-AS English American+Samoa
> en-AU English Australia
> en-BB English Barbados
> en-BM English Bermuda
> en-BN English Brunei
> en-BS English Bahamas
> en-BW English Botswana
> en-BZ English Belize
> en-CA English Canada
> en-CK English Cook+Islands
> en-CM English Cameroon
> en-DM English Dominica
> en-ER English Eritrea
> en-ET English Ethiopia
> en-FJ English Fiji
> en-FK English Falkland+Islands
> en-FM English Micronesia
> en-GB English United+Kingdom
> en-GD English Grenada
> en-GH English Ghana
> en-GI English Gibraltar
> en-GM English Gambia
> en-GU English Guam
> en-GY English Guyana
> en-IE English Ireland
> en-IL English Israel
> en-IO English British+Indian+Ocean+Territ
> en-JM English Jamaica
> en-KE English Kenya
> en-KI English Kiribati
> en-KN English St.+Kitts-Nevis
> en-KY English Cayman+Islands
> en-LC English St.+Lucia
> en-LR English Liberia
> en-LS English Lesotho
> en-MP English Northern+Mariana+Islands
> en-MS English Montserrat
> en-MT English Malta
> en-MU English Mauritius
> en-MW English Malawi
> en-NA English Namibia
> en-NF English Norfolk+Island
> en-NG English Nigeria
> en-NR English Nauru
> en-NU English Niue
> en-NZ English New+Zealand
> en-PG English Papua+New+Guinea
> en-PH English Philippines
> en-PK English Pakistan
> en-PN English Pitcairn
> en-PR English Puerto+Rico
> en-PW English Palau
> en-RW English Rwanda
> en-SB English Solomon+Islands
> en-SC English Seychelles
> en-SG English Singapore
> en-SH English St.+Helena
> en-SL English Sierra+Leone
> en-SO English Somalia
> en-SZ English Swaziland
> en-TC English Turks+and+Caicos+Islands
> en-TK English Tokelau
> en-TO English Tonga
> en-TT English Trinidad+and+Tobago
> en-UG English Uganda
> en-US English USA
> en-VC English St.+Vincent+and+the+Grenadi
> en-VG English British+Virgin+Islands
> en-VI English U.S.+Virgin+Islands
> en-VU English Vanuatu
> en-WS English Western+Samoa
> en-ZA English South+Africa
> en-ZM English Zambia
> en-ZW English Zimbabwe
> es-AR Spanish Argentina
> es-BO Spanish Bolivia
> es-CL Spanish Chile
> es-CO Spanish Colombia
> es-CR Spanish Costa+Rica
> es-CU Spanish Cuba
> es-DO Spanish Dominican+Republic
> es-EC Spanish Ecuador
> es-ES Spanish Spain
> es-GQ Spanish Equatorial+Guinea
> es-GT Spanish Guatemala
> es-HN Spanish Honduras
> es-MX Spanish Mexico
> es-NI Spanish Nicaragua
> es-PA Spanish Panama
> es-PE Spanish Peru
> es-PR Spanish Puerto+Rico
> es-PY Spanish Paraguay
> es-SV Spanish El+Salvador
> es-US Spanish USA
> es-UY Spanish Uruguay
> es-VE Spanish Venezuela
> fr-AD French Andorra
> fr-BE French Belgium
> fr-BF French Burkina+Faso
> fr-BI French Burundi
> fr-BJ French Benin
> fr-CA French Canada
> fr-CD French Democratic+Republic+of+Congo
> fr-CF French Central+African+Republic
> fr-CG French Congo
> fr-CH French Switzerland
> fr-CI French Cote+d'Ivoire
> fr-CM French Cameroon
> fr-DJ French Djibouti
> fr-FR French France
> fr-GA French Gabon
> fr-GB French United+Kingdom
> fr-GF French French+Guiana
> fr-GN French Guinea
> fr-GP French Guadeloupe
> fr-HT French Haiti
> fr-IT French Italy
> fr-KM French Comoros+Islands
> fr-LB French Lebanon
> fr-LU French Luxembourg
> fr-MC French Monaco
> fr-MG French Madagascar
> fr-ML French Mali
> fr-MQ French Martinique
> fr-NC French New+Caledonia
> fr-PF French French+Polynesia
> fr-PM French St.+Pierre+and+Miquelon
> fr-RE French Reunion
> fr-RW French Rwanda
> fr-SC French Seychelles
> fr-TD French Chad
> fr-TG French Togo
> fr-VU French Vanuatu
> fr-WF French Wallis+and+Futuna
> fr-YT French Mayotte
> hr-BA Croatian Bosnia-Herzegovina
> hr-HR Croatian Croatia
> hu-HU Hungarian Hungary
> hu-SI Hungarian Slovenia
> it-CH Italian Switzerland
> it-HR Italian Croatia
> it-IT Italian Italy
> it-SI Italian Slovenia
> it-SM Italian San+Marino
> ko-KP Korean Korea,+North
> ko-KR Korean Korea,+South
> ln-CD Lingala Democratic+Republic+of+Cong
> ln-CG Lingala Congo
> ms-BN Malay Brunei
> ms-MY Malay Malaysia
> ms-SG Malay Singapore
> nl-AN Dutch Netherlands+Antilles
> nl-AW Dutch Aruba
> nl-BE Dutch Belgium
> nl-NL Dutch Netherlands
> nl-SR Dutch Suriname
> pt-AO Portuguese Angola
> pt-BR Portuguese Brazil
> pt-CV Portuguese Cape+Verde+Islands
> pt-GW Portuguese Guinea-Bissau
> pt-MZ Portuguese Mozambique
> pt-PT Portuguese Portugal
> pt-ST Portuguese São+Tomé+e+Principe
> sd-IN Sindhi India
> sd-PK Sindhi Pakistan
> sr-BA Serbian Bosnia-Herzegovina
> sr-YU Serbian Yugoslavia
> ss-SZ Swati Swaziland
> ss-ZA Swati South+Africa
> sv-FI Swedish Finland
> sv-SE Swedish Sweden
> sw-KE Swahili Kenya
> sw-TZ Swahili Tanzania
> ta-IN Tamil India
> ta-SG Tamil Singapore
> tn-BW Tswana Botswana
> tn-ZA Tswana South+Africa
> tr-BG Turkish Bulgaria
> tr-CY Turkish Cyprus
> tr-TR Turkish Turkey
> ur-IN Urdu India
> ur-PK Urdu Pakistan
> zh-CN Mandarin+Chinese China
> zh-SG Mandarin+Chinese Singapore
> zh-TW Mandarin+Chinese Taiwan
> ======cut here======
>
> --
> John Cowan <jcowan@...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
> I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
>

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