List of countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch are official languages
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Countries where Dutch is an official or recognized language
Countries where Afrikaans is an official or recognized language
Countries where Dutch used to be an official language
This is a list of countries where Dutch or Afrikaans are official languages.
Countries
[change | change source]Country | Population 2011[1] |
Speakers | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
L1[2][3][4] | L2[2][3][4] | |||
17,116,000 | 16,431,360 (96%) | 687,000 (4%) | De facto national language | |
51,770,000 | 6,860,000 (14%) | 10,300,000 (19%) | De jure nationwide co-official language | |
11,303,000 | 6,215,000 (55%) | 1,469,000 (13%) | De jure nationwide co-official language (majority language in Flemish Region and minority in Brussels-Capital Region) | |
540,000 | 325,000 (60%) | 215,000 (40%) | De jure sole nationwide official language | |
2,113,000 | 220,000 (10,4%) | lingua franca | Recognized national language | |
Total | c. 82,834,000 | c. 29,069,000 | c. 12,671,000+ |
Dependent territories
[change | change source]Dutch
[change | change source]Belgium
[change | change source]Region | Status | Other official languages |
---|---|---|
Region | French | |
Region | ||
Region | French, German |
Netherlands
[change | change source]Region | Status | Other official languages |
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Constituent country | Papiamento | |
Municipality | Papiamento | |
Constituent country | Papiamento English | |
Province | West Frisian | |
Municipality | English | |
Municipality | English | |
Constituent country | English |
Afrikaans
[change | change source]South Africa
[change | change source]Region | Status | Other official languages |
---|---|---|
Northern Cape | Province | English Setswana Xhosa |
Western Cape | Province | English Xhosa |
International institutions
[change | change source]Institution | Afrikaans official? | Dutch official? |
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Dutch Language Union | ||
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ See: List of countries and dependencies by population
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eurobarometer 2012 - Annex
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Afrikaans". Ethnologue.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Dutch". Ethnologue.