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Official languages of sovereign countries (A-D): A[edit] Abkhazian: Abkhazia(with Russian according to the Abkhazian constitution,[1]with Georgian according to the Georgian constitution[2]) Afrikaans: South Africa(withEnglish,Ndebele,Northern Sotho,Sotho,Swati,Tsonga, Tswana,Venda,Xhosa,Zulu)[3] Albanian: Albania[4] Kosovo(with Serbian;[5]independence is disputed) Amharic: Ethiopia[6] Arabic(see alsoList of countries where Arabic is an official language): Algeria Bahrain Chad(withFrench) Comoros(withFrenchandComorian) Djibouti(withFrench) Egypt Eritrea(withTigrinyaandEnglish) Iraq(withKurdish)[7] Israel(withHebrew) Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco(with Berber)[8] Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Somaliland(withEnglishandSomali) Somalia(withSomali) Sudan(withEnglish) Syria Tunisia United Arab Emirates Yemen Armenian: Armenia[9] Nagorno-Karabakh[10] Aymara: Bolivia(withSpanish,Quechua, Guaraní and other 33languages)[11] Peru(withSpanishandQuechuaand otherlanguages)[12] Azerbaijani: Azerbaijan[13] B[edit] Belarusian: Belarus(withRussian)[14] Bengali: Bangladesh[15] India(with other 22 regional Language, and with English as a link language) Berber: Morocco(with Arabic)[8] Bislama: Vanuatu[16] Bosnian: Bosnia and Herzegovina(withCroatian,Serbian) Bulgarian: Bulgaria[17] Burmese: Burma(called Myanmar in the constitution)[18] C[edit] Cantonese: Hong Kong(usingTraditional Chinese characters); withEnglish Macau(usingTraditional Chinese characters); withPortuguese Catalan: Andorra,[19]co-official in some autonomous communities ofSpain Chinese, Mandarin: China(usingSimplified Hanscript) Taiwan(usingTraditional Hanscript) Singapore(usingSimplified Hanscript; withEnglish,MalayandTamil)[20] Chichewa: Malawi Croatian: Croatia[21] Bosnia and Herzegovina(withBosnianandSerbian) Czech: Czech Republic Slovakia(legislation states that a person using Czech language at a Slovak institution must be treated as if using Slovak language) D[edit] Danish: Denmark Faroe Islands(withFaroese) Dari: Afghanistan(a local variant of Persian, but defined as"Dari"in the Afghan constitution)[22] Dhivehi: Maldives[23] Dutch: Belgium(sole official language inFlanders, along withFrenchinBrussels) TheNetherlands(sole official language in every province exceptFriesland, whereWest Frisianis co-official and theBES islands, where Papiamento and English are co-official) Aruba(withPapiamento) Curaçao(withPapiamentoandEnglish) Sint Maarten(withEnglish) Suriname Dzongkha: Bhutan[24]