Zimbabwe: World's Most Official Languages?

Zimbabwe was actually the country with the world’s highest number of official languages at a national level and even held the Guinness World Record to show.

Today, that title and bragging rights belong to Bolivia which had more official languages than Zimbabwe but only on a regional level.

So, Bolivia either for political purposes or to encourage a sense of national pride decided to upgrade all its 37 regional languages to national level and ousted Zimbabwe from the top spot.

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[dawnpalmer]

Good for you Zimbabwe keep your language as a Jamaican we only have one. I'm proud of you 👏👏 keep it up.

[nebertbitz]

I'm from Uganda, thanks for the video. Here in Uganda we only have English as our official language

[travelwell]

Very interesting! Thanks for making this video!! Good job!

[dioumagogoba]

I'm from Sénégal. I speak Wolof Fulani.

[beatricebukaba]

Am from Kenya, official is English and National language is Swahili

[thato]

This is very informative. Thank you for showing difference between official and recognized languages. Some people did not understand the difference. And you are right with zimbabwe and india difference. zimbabwe indigenous languages official nationally and india indigenous languages officially provincally

[Azanianquest]

I'm from South Africa where we have 11 official languages. Our government has over the years planned to include sign language, but nothing thus far has been implemented in that regard. My home language is Setswana which is viewd as the fourth most spoken after IsiZulu, IsiXhosa and Sesotho.

[DiskusGames]

I‘m from Germany. German is the official language of the state, however the individual union states can decide their own official languages. Schleswig-Holstein recognises Danish, Lower German and the indigenous Germanic language of North Frisian.
While Brandenburg and my home state of Saxony also recognise the indigenous Westslavic language of Sorbian.

[cokedupnormies]

Make a video on the oldest languages of Africa

[rvrv]

In Portugal there are 2 oficial languages.

[johnnybravo]

Interesting, interesting, interesting!

[Klololol]

I am from Zimbabwe and I speak Shona and Venda, Xhosa, Sotho, Ndebele, Tonga and Zimbabwean sign language, Kalanga, Shangani, Ndau

[moniho]

Jamaica official language is English, national language patios

[theblackgods]

Yah this is true but in all honesty shona dominates Zimbabwe. always will, always has 1500yrs in counting

[rafikiyako]

Spain has 4 national languages : euskera, galego, catalán and castilian...

[aggreyndalegwa]

Kenya, English is the only official language!! Excellent video

[recallchannel]

Zimbabwe has more official than Bolivia because Shona is not a language but a group of 20 languages ...Karanga, korekore, zezuru, kalanga, manyika, chishangwe, ndau, chidanda, and may others they are all official and they are all different languages

[A.Mayflower]

Languages for my places:

Texas - no official language, but English and Spanish are most common

Mexico - no official but Spanish is de facto national language

Ireland - Irish and English

Poland - Polish

USA - no official language, but common languages are English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, French and French Creole, Arabic, Korean, Russian and Alaskan Russian, German and Amish German, Hawaiian, Navajo, Cherokee, and a ton others

South Carolina - English

DC - no official language, de facto are English, Amharic, and Spanish

Sakartvelo - Georgian, Abkhaz

Fiji - Fijian, English, Fiji Hindi, Rotuman

Qatar - Arabic (tho English is very common)

Germany - German

Florida - English, tho over half the population knows Spanish to some degree and 1/3 know speak a non English language at home

[Joginder]

From Kenya. The national languages are English and Kishwahili.

[bedzame]

I’m from Brazil, Brizilianese is the only official language