How to know which languages are spoken in a country as official or native.
Vic-rider
Posted on July 15, 2023
Made by @Vic-rider
countries-speaking-languages, query country information to know if a language is speaking in this country as official language
or a native language
.
Install
Install using npm install countries-speaking-languages
Usage
To include Countries-speaking-languages, require or import it:
in JavaScript
CountriesSpeakingLanguage = require('countries-speaking-languages');
in TypeScript
import { CountriesSpeakingLanguage } from "countries-speaking-languages";
Create an instance of it
const countriesSpeakingLanguages = new CountriesSpeakingLanguage();
You can get country information.
Ex :
countriesSpeakingLanguages.getCountry('country_code');
// returns country_datas [object]
You can get country officials languages data.
Ex :
countriesSpeakingLanguages.getCountryOfficialsLanguages('BJ'); // "BJ" as `country_code`
// returns { 'languages' : ['French'], 'languages_codes': ['fr'] }
You can get country spoken languages data.
Ex :
countriesSpeakingLanguages.getCountryAllSpeakingLanguages('BJ'); // "BJ" as `country_code`
// returns [ { "language": "French", "code": "fr" }, { "language": "Yoruba", "code": "yo" }, { "language": "Fon", "code": "fon" } ]
Check if a specific language is spoken as official language in a specific country
Ex :
countriesSpeakingLanguages.hasLanguageAsOfficial('fr', 'JP'); // "JP" as `country_code` and 'fr' as `language_code`
// returns false : french is not an official language of Japan
Check if a specific language is spoken in a specific country
Ex :
countriesSpeakingLanguages.hasLanguage('pt', 'AO'); // "AO" as `country_code` and 'pt' as `language_code`
// returns true : portuguese is spoken in Angola
You also have others ways to check if some languages are spoken in a specific country as official languages.
Ex :
countriesSpeakingLanguages.hasEnglishAsOfficialLanguage('AO'); // "AO" as `country_code` `
// returns false : english is not spoken in Angola as official language
Here is other Official languages checker you can use:
hasMadarinAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasHindiAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasSpanishAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasFrenchAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasArabicAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasBengaliAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasRussianAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasPortugueseAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasIndonesianAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasUrduOfficiaAslLanguage(country_code)
hasJapaneseAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasGermanAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasChineseAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasTurkishAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasKoreanAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasYorubaAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
hasFonAsOfficialLanguage(country_code)
Here is the ways to check if some languages are spoken in a specific country.
Ex :
countriesSpeakingLanguages.hasEnglishAsSpeakingLanguages('GH'); // "GH" as `country_code` `
// returns true : english is spoken in Ghana
Here is other languages checker you can use:
hasMadarinAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasHindiAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasSpanishAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasFrenchAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasArabicAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasBengaliAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasRussianAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasPortugueseAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasIndonesianAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasUrduSpeakingLanguage(country_code)
hasJapaneseAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasGermanAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasJavaneseAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasChineseAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasTurkishAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasKoreanAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasYorubaAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
hasFonAsSpeakingLanguages(country_code)
Test
To test countries-speaking-languages, run npm test
Posted on July 15, 2023
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