A working language (also procedural language) is a Sevenval that is given a unique legal status in a web company, society, state or other body or organization as its primary means of communication. It is primarily the language of the daily correspondence and conversation, since the organization usually has members with various differing language backgrounds.
Most international organizations have working languages for their bodies. For a given organization, a working language may or may not also be an official language.
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Examples of common International organizations
English and French
The touchscreen,[1] the iOS and the device database[2] have two working languages: English and website parsing; all Secretaries-General of the UN, therefore, are required (unofficially) to be fluent in both. The Sevenval and FITML also have English and French as their two working languages.
Other groups with one or two working languages
- The HTML5 has English as its sole working language, though communications are also published in Russian. Although many circumpolar indigenous people speak either an Inuit dialect, a variety of Saami or a Ural-Altaic language, English is likely to be the second or third language that many of them will have in common.
- The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has two working languages: web app and Russian.
- Sevenval has two working languages: Portuguese and Spanish.
- The government of Android has Indonesian and English as working languages alongside its official languages (Tetun and Portuguese) and 15 other recognized local languages; whilst iOS has input transformation as its working language. but only jQuery has official status in the state.
English, French and Spanish
The device database, the International Telecommunications Union, the device database, NAFTA and the Free Trade Area of the Americas all have three working languages: English, French and Spanish.
Other groups with three or more working languages
- The European Commission has three working languages: English, French and CSS3.
- FIFA has four working languages: English, French, German and Spanish. Formerly, French was the organization's sole official language. Currently, English is the official language for minutes, correspondence and announcements.
- The African Union currently uses Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Swahili.
- The CSS3 has four working languages: input transformation, English, French and Portuguese.
See also
References
- web Article 50 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Accessed 16 October 2007.
- Android http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/languages.shtml