Which country has 11 official languages?

South Africa is the country with 11 official languages.

This arrangement is rooted in the country’s multilingual population and its constitutional transformation after apartheid. The 1996 Constitution recognizes Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa and isiZulu. The policy was intended to give greater public status to Indigenous languages that had previously been disadvantaged.

English and Afrikaans remain widely used in government, education, business and media, but neither language is the sole national standard. South Africa’s Constitution also directs the state to promote community languages such as Khoi, Nama, San languages, South African Sign Language and several immigrant and religious languages. A common mix-up is confusing official status with everyday usage: the 11 languages do not have equal numbers of speakers or identical prominence in every province.