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Meaning of official language in English
(Definition of official language from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of official language
official language
As a nation built by immigrants, it is important that we share one vision and one official language.
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This phase could run for approximately five years and would include the teaching of the official language.
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Admittedly, the choice of official language is a political process.
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And in this article, we purport that some languages are more important because they are the official language of the state.
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The official language has to be taught for it to be official.
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In contrast, if individuals can speak the official language, they have both linguistic and psychological channels through which to interact with the state.
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We argue that countries with larger populations of official language speakers have higher growth rates than those with smaller populations.
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Another avenue is to test whether proficiency in the official language affects individual attitudes towards political institutions.
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Countries with a larger official language-speaking population have higher economic growth rates.
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It is thus the single official language of the country and is the dominant language of education, mass media, and administration.
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As mentioned earlier, as far as it can see it sees there being one official language.
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Neither is an official language a novel experiment.
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The differences in official language policy between the two regions were held responsible for a larger or smaller number of signs in the minority language.
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For countries that have no official language, we code for the de facto working language.
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One way to institutionalize an official language is via the education system.
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