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Although ratification was blocked by the Constitutional Council as contradicting the Fifth Republic's constitutional provision enshrining French as the language of the Republic, the government continues to recognise regional and minority languages to a limited extent (i.e. without granting them official status) and the Délégation générale ...
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
The biggest ethnic minority is the Romanian community of 1.4 million (6.6%). Bulgaria is also part of the Francophonie, with 320,000 French speakers. Cyprus has two official languages: Greek and Turkish. [247] Both languages were spoken throughout the island before 1974.
French is an official language in 27 independent nations. French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 50 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1]
Bulgarian (/ b ʌ l ˈ ɡ ɛər i ə n / ⓘ, / b ʊ l ˈ-/ bu(u)l-GAIR-ee-ən; български език, bŭlgarski ezik, pronounced [ˈbɤɫɡɐrski] ⓘ) is an Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeast Europe, primarily in Bulgaria.
At a regional level, French is acknowledged as an official language in the Aosta Valley region of Italy (the first government authority to adopt Modern French as the official language in 1536, three years before France itself), [47] in which is spoken as a first language by 1.25% of the population and as a second one by approximately 50%. [48]
Germanic languages and main dialect groups in Europe after 1945. Germanic languages in the World. Countries and sub-national entities where one or more Germanic languages are spoken. Dark Red: First language; Red: Official or Co-Official language, Pink: Spoken by a significant minority as second language.
The following texts are translations of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the languages of Indonesia. English; All people are born free and have the same dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should associate with each other in a spirit of brotherhood. Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)