How many official languages are there in Europe?

Answer 1

Hundreds.

Answer 2

3

Answer 3

An official language is a language that is designated as "official" by a state, or other legally-defined territory, usually by legislation, and required in all official government communications - spoken and written. Its required uses can extend to national traffic signs, product labels, storefront signage, voting materials, driving license exams, and other official and legal forms. Many nations have more than one official language, such as Canada, where both English and French are "official".

20 official languages of the European Union. Due to change 1st Jan 2007.

I officially speak english, rubbish and gibberish (the last 2 are not recognised -but understood by many).

Answer 4

As many as there are in the world!............or is that just Britain! by the way how much of a pr*ck is 'matt t' I just answered the same in 2 lines whilst he took up a whole page! what a prat!

Answer 5

is that the word Europe or the continent?

Answer 6

too many
Switzerland has 4

Answer 7

alot

Answer 8

Mongolic languages

* Kalmyk

Turkic languages

Bolgar languages

* Chuvash

Oghuz languages

* Azeri
* Crimean Tatar
* Gagauz
* Turkish
* Urum

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Kypchak languages

* Karachay-Balkar
* Karaim
* Kazakh
* Kumyk
* Nogai
* Tatar

Basque

The Basque language of the northern Iberian Peninsula is a language isolate, and as such is not closely related to any other

Finno-Ugric languages
Approximate geographical distribution of areas where indigenous Finno-Ugric languages are spoken. Diagonal patterns indicate sparsely populated areas. Dotted lines mark boundaries of corresponding subnational administrative units.
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Approximate geographical distribution of areas where indigenous Finno-Ugric languages are spoken. Diagonal patterns indicate sparsely populated areas. Dotted lines mark boundaries of corresponding subnational administrative units.

The Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic language family.

* Estonian
* Finnish
* Hungarian
* Ingrian
* Karelian
* Khanty
* Komi
* Livonian
* Mansi
* Mari
* Mordvin
* Permian
* Sami languages:

* Inari Sami
* Kildin Sami
* Lule Sami
* Northern Sami
* Pite Sami
* Skolt Sami
* Southern Sami
* Ter Sami
* Ume Sami

* Udmurt
* Veps
* Võro
* Votic

North Caucasian languages

Northwest Caucasian languages

* Abaza
* Abhkaz
* Adyghe
* Kabardian


Northeast Caucasian languages

* Avar
* Bats
* Chechen
* Dargin
* Ingush
* Lak
* Lezgian
* Tabasaran
* Tsez
* Udi

Maltese

A Semitic language spoken in Malta and related to Arabic but written with the Latin script. It is the smallest official language of the EU in terms of speakers.
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South Caucasian languages

* Georgian
* Laz
* Mingrelian
* Svan language

Indo-European languages

Albanian


Armenian


Baltic languages

* Curonian
* Latgalian
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Old Prussian (extinct)
* Samogitian



Celtic languages


Brythonic

* Cornish - revived
* Cumbric - extinct
* Breton
* Welsh


Goidelic (Gaelic)

* Irish
* Manx
* Scottish Gaelic



Germanic languages
The Germanic languages in Europe ██ Low Franconian and Low German (West Germanic) ██ High German (West Germanic) ██ Insular Anglo-Frisian (West Germanic) ██ Continental Anglo-Frisian (West Germanic) ██ East North Germanic ██ West North Germanic ██ Line dividing the North and West Germanic languages.
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The Germanic languages in Europe ██ Low Franconian and Low German (West Germanic) ██ High German (West Germanic) ██ Insular Anglo-Frisian (West Germanic) ██ Continental Anglo-Frisian (West Germanic) ██ East North Germanic ██ West North Germanic ██ Line dividing the North and West Germanic languages.
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North Germanic

(descending from Old Norse)

* West (Insular) Scandinavian
o Icelandic
o Faroese
o Norn (extinct)
* East (Continental) Scandinavian
o Danish
o Norwegian (Norwegian Bokmål)
o Swedish

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West Germanic

* High German languages
o Standard German (Hochdeutsch, High German)
o Central German
+ East Central German
+ West Central German
# Luxembourgish
# Pennsylvania German (spoken by the Amish and other groups in southeastern Pennsylvania)
o Upper German
+ Alemannic German
# Alsatian
# Hutterite German (aka "Tirolean")
+ Austro-Bavarian
+ Yiddish
* Low Franconian
o Afrikaans
o Dutch
* Low German
o West Low German
+ Limburgisch
o East Low German
+ Plautdietsch (Mennonite Low German)
* Anglo-Frisian
o Frisian
+ West Frisian
+ Saterland Frisian
+ North Frisian
o Anglic (descending from Anglo-Saxon)
+ Modern English
+ Modern Scots in Scotland and Ulster
+ West Indian English
+ African American Vernacular English
+ Yola (extinct 19th century)
+ Tok Pisin
+ Hiberno-English
+ Shelta (mixed with Irish)

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East Germanic

(descending from Gothic)

* Burgundian (extinct)
* Crimean Gothic (extinct in the 1800s)
* Lombardic (extinct)
* Vandalic (extinct)

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Greek
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Italic languages

* Latin

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Romance languages

The Romance languages decended from the Vulgar Latin spoken across most of the lands of the Roman Empire.
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Ibero-Romance languages and dialects

* Aragonese
* Asturian
o Leonese
* Catalan-Valencian
o Eastern Catalan
+ Alguerese
+ Balearic
+ Central Catalan
+ Northern Catalan
o Western Catalan
+ North-Western Catalan
+ Valencian
* Fala language (spoken in a valley of the northwestern part of Spain Extremadura)
* Galician
o Eonavian (a Galician dialect with some traits of Asturian)
* Judeo-Portuguese
* Ladino
* Mirandese
* Mozarabic
* Portuguese
o European Portuguese
o Brazilian Portuguese
o African Portuguese
+ Angolan Portuguese
+ Cape Verdean Portuguese
+ Guinean Portuguese
+ Mozambican Portuguese
+ São Tomean Portuguese
* Portuñol
* Spanish
o Extremaduran
o Aljama

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Gallo-Romance languages

* Franco-Provençal
* Oïl languages
o Bourguignon-Morvandiau
o Champenois
o Franc-Comtois
o French
+ Belgian French
+ Cajun French
+ Quebec French
+ Swiss French
+ Zarphatic/Judæo-French (extinct since the late 1300s)
o Gallo language
o Lorrain
o Norman
+ Jèrriais
+ Dgèrnésiais
o Picard
o Poitevin-Saintongeais
o Walloon
* Occitan
o Gascon
+ Aranese
o Auvergnat
o Languedocien
o Limousin
o Provençal
+ Shuadit (Judæo-Provençal) (extinct since 1977)

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Italo-Romance languages

* Corsican
* Dalmatian
o Istriot
* Italian
o Emiliano-Romagnolo
o Judeo-Italian
o Ligurian
+ Monegasque
o Lombard
o Napoletana-Calabrese
o Piemontese
* Sardinian
o Campidanese
o Gallurese
o Logudorese
o Sassarese
* Sicilian
* Venetian

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Rhaeto-Romance languages

* Friulian
* Ladin
* Romansh

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Eastern Romance languages

* Romanian (Daco-Romanian)
* Aromanian
* Istro-Romanian
* Megleno-Romanian

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Indo-Iranian languages
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Indo-Aryan languages

* Romany

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Iranian languages

* Kurdish
* Ossetian language

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Slavic languages
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West Slavic languages

* Czech
* Kashubian
* Polish
* Polabian (extinct)
* Pomeranian (extinct)
* Slovak
* Sorbian
o Lower Sorbian
o Upper Sorbian

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East Slavic languages

* Belarusian
* Russian
* Rusyn
o Carpatho-Rusyn (Ruthenian)
o Pannonian-Rusyn (Rusnak)
* Ukrainian

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South Slavic languages

* Bulgarian
* Old Church Slavonic
* Macedonian
* Serbo-Croatian
o Bosnian
o Croatian
o Serbian
* Slovene
* Romano-Serbian (a mixed language)


And Esperanto

Answer 9

'Official' ....to whom?