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Among these languages, only Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon have a long-established recorded history, and only Vietnamese and Khmer have official status ( in Vietnam and Cambodia, respectively ).
It has the widest geographical and racial distribution of all the official languages of South Africa, and is widely spoken and understood as a second or third language.
Historically, Latin or Romance languages have been the official languages in this region.
Both countries share the use of English and French as the two official languages as well as memberships in the Francophonie and the Commonwealth.
The Croatian language is the official language of Croatia, but minority languages are officially used in some local government units.
Czech is also one of the 23 official languages in the European Union ( since May 2004 ).
Sometimes an official name change is resisted in other languages and the older name may remain in common use.
Some countries have multiple official languages, resulting in multiple official placenames.
In Canada, English and French are official languages and places have names in both languages.
The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.
There are two official languages in Djibouti: Arabic ( Afro-Asiatic ) and French ( Indo-European ).
Danish is the national language of Denmark, and one of two official languages of the Faroes ( alongside Faroese ).
Until 2009, it had also been one of two official languages of Greenland ( alongside Greenlandic ).
Furthermore, Danish is one of the official languages of the European Union and one of the working languages of the Nordic Council.
It only applies to languages traditionally used by the nationals of the State Parties ( thus excluding languages used by recent immigrants from other states, see immigrant languages ), which significantly differ from the majority or official language ( thus excluding what the state party wishes to consider as mere local dialects of the official or majority language ) and that either have a territorial basis ( and are therefore traditionally spoken by populations of regions or areas within the State ) or are used by linguistic minorities within the State as a whole ( thereby including such languages as Yiddish and Romani, which are used over a wide geographic area ).

official and are
In the summary of the principal events of the campaign compiled from the official records there are only ten days which show no fighting.
The glass may seem trivial but Communist official hooliganism feeds on such incidents unless they are redressed.
The official statistics show that 60 per cent are employed workers or independent professional people.
Georgia Republicans are getting strong encouragement to enter a candidate in the 1962 governor's race, a top official said Wednesday.
But an official statement adopted by the 33-man Emory board at its annual meeting Friday noted that state taxing requirements at present are a roadblock to accepting Negroes.
There are many official terms that differ in Austrian German from their usage in most parts of Germany.
* 1962 – Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.
Since the Ainu are not recognized in the official list of the peoples living in Russia, they are counted as people without nationality or as ethnic Russian or Kamchadal.
No official lists of ANAC numbers are published as telephone companies believe overuse of these numbers could make them more likely to be busy when needed by installers.
There are also immigrants from other countries such as Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Morocco, many of whom are under illegal alien status and therefore are not accounted for in official population figures.
The President of Germany, whose functions are mainly ceremonial under the German constitution, has his official residence in Schloss Bellevue.
Belize ( formerly British Honduras ) is a country located on the north eastern coast of Central America and it is the only country in the area where English is the official language, although Creole and Spanish are more commonly spoken.
The F-5s are under a modernisation program called F-5BR program, the aircraft official designation is F-5M.
The triple digit inflation of 1996 and 1997 has given way to an official economic growth, but forecasters are predicting accelerated growth over the next several years.
Basque has no official standing in the Northern Basque Country of France and French citizens are barred from officially using Basque in a French court of law.
The language has official status in those territories that are within the Basque Autonomous Community, where it is spoken and promoted heavily, but only partially in Navarre.
Though intentional walks are recorded as such in the records of the official scorer, they are combined with standard, non-intentional walks when calculating a player's on-base percentage, and have only received a separate column in a player's statistics since 1955.
Festivities and official ceremonies are held all over France.
The state rooms, used for official and state entertaining, are open to the public each year for most of August and September, as part of the Palace's Summer Opening.

official and Finnish
After independence from Russia in 1917, the Finnish Civil War, including interventions by Imperial Germany and Soviet Russia, and failure of the Communist revolution, resulted in the official ban on Communism, and strengthening relations with Western countries.
Following the Finnish Civil War and October revolution, Russians were virtually equated with Communists and due to official hostility to Communism, Finno-Soviet relations in the period between the world wars remained tense.
The official starting date of the Finnish Civil War remains a matter of debate.
** Finnish markka, mark in Swedish, official currency of Finland from 1860 to 2001
Kauniainen has been officially bilingual since 1936 and the Finnish name Kauniainen was made official beside the Swedish name Grankulla in 1949 by the market town ’ s council.
Even if Turku had no official capital status, both the short-lived institutions of Dukes and Governors-General of Finland usually had their Finnish residences there.
After the Finnish War, which ended when Sweden ceded Finland to Imperial Russia at the Treaty of Fredrikshamn in 1809, Turku became briefly the official capital, but soon lost the status to Helsinki, as Emperor Alexander I felt that Turku was too far from Russia and too aligned with Sweden to serve as the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland.
Applicants must now pass an examination in one of the official languages of the country, Finnish or Swedish.
Finland, for example, has the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and Finnish Orthodox Church as its official state religions, yet upholds the right of free expression of religion in article 11 of its constitution.
Basic instruction is given in the eleven official languages of the European Union: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
The group includes persons who have been determined to be of Finnish nationality by Soviet or post-Soviet authorities or who have at least one parent or two grandparents who have been determined to be of Finnish nationality in official documents, e. g., in their internal passports.
Due to its proximity to Finland, Finnish is an official minority language in the municipality and most names have a Finn counterpart.
In Finland, the Finnish term hyvä veli-verkosto ( literally dear brother network ) is used to refer to the alleged informal network of men in high places whose members use their influence to pervert or circumvent official decision-making processes to the members ' mutual benefit.
Municipalities of Finland with Swedish as an official language in blue: White: unilingually Finnish municipalities Light blue: bilingual municipalities with a Finnish majority Bright blue: bilingual municipalities with a Swedish majority Dark blue: unilingually ( 92-94 %) Swedish municipalities More than 17, 000 Swedish-speaking Finns live in officially monolingual Finnish municipalities, and are thus not represented on the map.
In 1863, Finnish and Swedish became official languages with equal status, and by the time of Finland's independence in 1917, Finnish clearly dominated in government and society.
As Regent, Mannerheim often signed official documents using Kustaa, the Finnish form of his Christian name, in an attempt to emphasise his Finnishness to some sections of the Finnish population who were suspicious of his background in the Russian armed forces.
He also personally went to Saint Petersburg to meet Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who somewhat hesitatingly gave his official recognition of Finnish independence.
The liitto was later dropped from the Finnish and Swedish names in advertisements ; the official name remains.

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