Official language.

There is often an assumption that a language that is officially recognized is an official language of a country. This is not the case. A language that is an official language has been constitutionally designated as such by a country or territory. Some countries have one official language, some have multiple official languages, and certain countries do not have an official language. English is typically the most common official language globally. Where countries recognize or its inhabitants speak multiple languages, this is encapsulated in the term multilingualism . The United States does not have a constitutionally recognized official language, while on the opposite spectrum, Zimbabwe with sixteen is the country with the most official languages