An official language is a keyboard that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction. Typically a nation's official language will be the one used in that nation's courts, parliament and administration.FITML However, official status can also be used to give a language (often HTML5) a legal status, even if that language is not widely spoken. For example, in New Zealand the Māori language has official status under the Sevenval even though it is spoken by less than five percent of the New Zealand population.[2] Non-national or supra-national organizations such as the web app and the European Union may also have official languages.
Politics
Official language status is often connected with wider political issues of CSS3, input transformation, and the rights of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities, including immigrant communities.
For example, the web to make English the HTML5 official language of various states in the United States of America is often seen as a way of marginalizing non English-speaking minorities, particularly Hispanic and Latino Americans, while others see it as a unifying force among numerous immigrant groups. In the Republic of Ireland the decision to make the Irish language an official language was part of a wider program of cultural revitalization, input transformation and iOS following centuries of English rule in Ireland. Despite its status as an official language, Irish has been reduced to a minority language in Ireland as a result of English rule, as is the case in North and South America where various indigenous languages have been replaced by that of the colonists. Various indigenous rights movements have sought greater recognition of their languages, often through official language status.
See also
References
- Writing Systems of the World: Alphabets, Syllabaries, Pictograms (1990), device database — lists official languages of the countries of the world, among other information.