• A national language is a language (or language variant, e.g. dialect) that has some connection—de facto or de jure—with a nation. The term is applied quite...
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    Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians...
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  • The National Languages Committee was established in 1919 by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China with the purpose of standardizing and popularizing...
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  • The National Language Service promotes and facilitates communication across languages in South Africa. The NLS' core objective is to meet the language requirements...
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    Philippines, and as a second language by the majority, mostly as or through Filipino. Its standardized, codified, national or nationalized, intellectualized...
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    indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua...
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    Filipino, [ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞]) is a language under the Austronesian language family. It is the national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of...
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  • state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language. Official language A language designated as having a unique legal...
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    and officially the national language of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. As such, Luxembourgish is different from the German language also used in the Grand...
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    secondary language, co-official with Arabic as the primary language. Notes: In Spain, Spanish is the sole official language at the national level, while...
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    national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian, and Romansh. German, French, and Italian maintain equal status as official languages at...
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    the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is the preferred and dominant language used...
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    Tagalog, as the national language and an official language along with English. Filipino is regulated by Commission on the Filipino Language and serves as...
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    22 languages have been classified as recognised languages under the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India. There is no designated national language...
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    distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. For example, a language is often defined as a set of mutually intelligible varieties, but independent national standard...
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    Hindi (redirect from Hindi language)
    the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua...
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    due to migration. Languages in Indonesia are classified into nine categories: national language, locally used indigenous languages, regional lingua francas...
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    This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Chinese...
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    The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2...
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    accent of the speaker. Standard Swedish, spoken by most Swedes, is the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th century...
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    where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously...
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    The languages of Taiwan consist of several varieties of languages under the families of Austronesian languages and Sino-Tibetan languages. The Formosan...
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    Urdu (redirect from Urdu Language)
    Persianised register of the Hindustani language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan...
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    indigenous languages and 24 living non-indigenous languages, with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern Tai family, and the national language...
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  • government in their native languages. In countries that do not formally designate an official language, a de facto national language usually evolves. English...
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  • minority languages, insofar as they are the national language of a stateless nation. There is no scholarly consensus on what a "minority language" is, because...
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    Constitution of Mexico does not declare an official language; however, Spanish is the de facto national language spoken by over 99% of the population making it...
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    The indigenous languages of Malaysia belong to the Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian families. The national, or official, language is Malay which is the...
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    expression of Indian national unity during the Indian Independence movement, and continues to be spoken as the common language of the people of the northern...
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  • The national language and official language of Bangladesh is Bangla according to the third article of the Constitution of Bangladesh. Almost 99% of Bangladeshis...
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