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Official languages of sovereign countries (G-R): G[edit] Georgian: Georgia[2] South Ossetia(with Ossetian and Russian)[35] Abkhazia(with Georgian according to the Georgian constitution)[2] German: Austria(withHungarian,Burgenland Croatian, andSlovene) Belgium(with Dutch andFrench) Germany Liechtenstein Luxembourg(withFrenchandLuxembourgish) Italy(in South Tyrol) Switzerland(withFrench,Italian, and Romansh)[34] 17 of the26 cantons(monolinguallyGerman) Graubünden(withItalianand Romansh) Bern(withFrench) Fribourg(withFrench) Valais(withFrench) Greek: Greece Cyprus(withTurkish)[36] Guaraní: Paraguay(withSpanish)[37] Bolivia(withSpanish,Quechuaand other 33languages)[11] H[edit] Haitian Creole: Haiti(withFrench)[32] Hausa: Nigeria[38] Hebrew: Israel(withArabic) Hindi: India("official language of the Union"; with English; 22 other regionallanguages)[39] Fiji(with English and Bau Fijian; known constitutionally as Hindustani as an umbrella term to coverUrdu, as well as Hindi)[25] Hiri Motu: Papua New Guinea(with English andTok Pisin) Hungarian: Hungary[40] I[edit] Ibo: Nigeria[38] Icelandic: Iceland Indonesian: Indonesia(a standardized dialect of Malay)[41] Irish: Republic of Ireland("national"; with English being"second official")[26] Italian: Italy Switzerland(withGermanandFrench)[34] Ticino Graubünden(withGermanandRomansh) San Marino Vatican City(withLatin) India(withHindi Bhojpuri) J[edit] Japanese: Japan(de facto) K[edit] Kazakh: Kazakhstan(with Russian)[42] Khmer: Cambodia[43] Kinyarwanda: Rwanda Kikongo: Democratic Republic of the Congo(with French, Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba)[31] Kirundi: Burundi Kituba: Republic of the Congo(with French and Lingala)[33] Korean: North Korea[44] South Korea Kurdish: Iraq(withArabic)[7] Kyrgyz: Kyrgyzstan(with Russian)[45] L[edit] Lao: Laos Latin: Vatican City Latvian: Latvia Lingala: Democratic Republic of the Congo(with French, Kikongo, Swahili and Tshiluba)[31] Republic of the Congo(with French and Kituba)[33] Lithuanian: Lithuania Luxembourgish: Luxembourg(withFrenchandGerman) M[edit] Macedonian: Republic of Macedonia Malagasy: Madagascar(withFrench) Malay: Malaysia Brunei Singapore(with English,ChineseandTamil)[20] Indonesia(a standardized local dialect of Malay, but treated as the separate language in Indonesia)[41] Maltese: Malta(with English) Manx Gaelic: Isle of Man(with English) Māori: New Zealand(with English and New Zealand Sign Language) Moldovan Moldova(identical toRomanian; defined as Moldovan in the Moldovan constitution)[46] Transnistria(Cyrillic alphabetis used; with Russian and Ukrainian; independence is disputed)[47] Mongolian: Mongolia Montenegrin: Montenegro N[edit] Ndebele(SouthernandNorthern): South Africa(withAfrikaans, English,Northern Sotho,Sotho,Swati,Tsonga,Tswana,Venda,Xhosa,Zulu)[3] Zimbabwe(with English andShona) Nepali: Nepal New Zealand Sign Language: New Zealand(alongside English and Maori) Northern Sotho: South Africa(withAfrikaans, English,Ndebele,Sotho,Swati,Tsonga,Tswana,Venda,Xhosa,Zulu)[3] Norwegian: Norway(two official written forms - Bokmål and Nynorsk) O[edit] Ossetian: South Ossetia(with Russian and Georgian; independence is disputed)[35] P[edit] Punjabi India(official with 21 other languages)[48] Papiamento: Aruba(withDutch) Curaçao(with English andDutch) Pashtu: Afghanistan(withDariinAfghanistan)[22] Persian: Iran Afghanistan(withPashtoandDariinAfghanistan)[22] Tajikistan(calledTajikiinTajikistan)[49] Polish: Poland Portuguese: Angola Brazil Cape Verde East Timor(withTetum) Equatorial Guinea(withSpanishandFrench) Guinea-Bissau Macau(withCantonese) Mozambique Portugal São Tomé and Príncipe Q[edit] Quechua: Bolivia(withSpanish,Aymara, Guaraní and other 33 languages)[11] Peru(withSpanishand Aymara)[12] R[edit] Romanian: Romania Moldova(officially called Moldovan, although identical to Romanian according to the law of Moldova)[46] Romansh: Switzerland(withGerman,French, andItalian)[34] Graubünden(withGermanandItalian) Russian: Russia(in some regions together with regional languages)[50] Abkhazia(withAbkhazaccording to the Abkhazian constitution;[1]independence is disputed) Belarus(with Belarusian)[14] Kazakhstan(with Kazakh)[42] Kyrgyzstan(with Kyrgyz)[45] South Ossetia(with Ossetian and Georgian; independence is disputed)[35] Tajikistan("inter-ethnic communication"; with Tajik)[49] Transnistria(with Moldovan and Ukrainian; independence is disputed)[47]