How to know which languages are spoken in a country as official or native.

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