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Malaysii
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Postby Malaysii » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:30 am

All national documents and meetings must be written/held in Italian, as that is the official language of Malaysii ahead of Malay and English.

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World of china
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Postby World of china » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:35 am

english 8)

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Mackleberria
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Postby Mackleberria » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:45 am

The Republic of Mackleberria's official, and most commonly spoken, language is American English. Spanish and French and a myriad of other languages are spoken by less than 30% of the citizens but American English is required of all citizens. In the case of politics where diplomats and other legal delegates are concerned, Latin is the language that all politicians must know to perform their duties to the people. All Bills passed by the Senate must be filed in 2 copies. One in Latin and the other English. Latin is used because it is the root language for most European languages such as: French, Italian, and Spanish. This makes the translation process more accessible to those who speak languages other than English.
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The Independent Provinces
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Postby The Independent Provinces » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:45 am

All public documents are printed in English our national language. Immigrants are taught English as part of their becoming citizens so they do not feel left out of our nation's culture. In private documents/broadcasts any language can be used i.e Spanish channels, French channels etc. Of course people can speak whatever they want to each other, but the census has revealed that English is spoken in most households.

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Seperate Vermont
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Postby Seperate Vermont » Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:25 am

Government documents are released in English and, in limited aspects, French.
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Kel-Elysia
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Postby Kel-Elysia » Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:13 pm

In the Imperium, English is the official and most common language, although in many areas Korean or Japanese is used for everyday conversation.
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Ketchupheinz
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Postby Ketchupheinz » Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:24 pm

English and French are the official languages of Ketchupheinz. Everyone has the right to use English or French in government institutions. Public services are available in both languages. Laws and official records are printed and published in English and French and both language versions are equally authoritative.

The Monarch, the Chancellor, the president of the senate, the Chief Justice and some other officials must be functionally bilingual.

Aboriginal languages are official alongside English and French in aboriginal territories.

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New Lyrane
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Postby New Lyrane » Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:25 am

Lyranian is the sole official language. It is also the only language taught in schools. Any other planetary languages are taught in university history departments, as an aid to pre-Unification studies. Galactic languages are only taught right here, at the University of Haru.
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Thurask
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Postby Thurask » Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:48 am

English is the most common and only official language.
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Crumpthertu
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Postby Crumpthertu » Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:50 am

The Parliament of Crumpthertu has voted on a resolution that English, French, Spanish and German to be to be official languages in government affairs dependeing on certain situations. However, The King and Parliament recognizes the right of the people to speak their native tongues or languages without fear of persecution and protecting the necessary right of people to communicate everywhere.

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Kalaspia-Shimarata
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Postby Kalaspia-Shimarata » Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:01 am

English
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Kalaspian
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Kalaspia-Shimarata's flag represents the Union between K&S. The dark blue represents the sea and the light blue represents the sky. In Kalashi language considers light blue and dark blue to be different colours. England colonised, and unified K&S, between 1774 and 1953, and English, light blue and dark blue are considered to be the same colour. Therefore, the contrast between dark blue and light blue represents the union, but the differences between K&S where as blue being two but simultaneously one colour represents K&S being two, but simultaniously one entity. The opposite to the symmetry represents the unity and indipendance of K&S, whilst also representing the Kalashi culture of opposite symmetry.KS is 75% Christian, hence the cross.

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Davao and Mati
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Postby Davao and Mati » Wed Apr 23, 2014 1:37 am

Official Languages:
Cebuano
British English
Scottish Gaelic
Mandaya
Butuanon

Minority Lanugages:
Welsh
Surigaonon
Tausug
Boholano
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Parhe
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Languages used in official situations

Postby Parhe » Wed Apr 23, 2014 1:44 am

There are three official languages, English, Korean, and Parhasque that all documents and signs must be present in. Additionally there are 60 regional languages that have the same status on all federal documents and signs as well as regions where they are official; in other words they differ in the main three in that in many provinces, counties, and cities documents and signs are only required to be available in languages recognized locally. The sixty languages are Ainu, Albanian, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Atayal, Bai, Bunun, Buryat, Chukchi, Comanche, Daur, Dzongkha, Even, Evenki, Fox, German, Hungarian, Hmong, Irish, Italian, Itelmen, Japanese, Kam, Kazakh, Ket, Koryak, Kyrgyz, Lebanese Arabic, Luxembourgish, Manchurian, Mandarin, Mongolian, Muong, Nanai, Nivkh, Nuosu, Oirat, Occitan, Oroch, Orok, Oroqen, Paiwan, Portuguese, Pumi, Romani, Rukai, Ryukyuan, Sakha, Santa, Spanish, Tatar, Thai, Tibetan, Udege, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Xibe, Yami, Yukaghir, Yupik
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Greater Eurasian Union
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Postby Greater Eurasian Union » Wed Apr 23, 2014 2:03 am

Russian is the Primary Language used in official situations - Only Chinese shares this status with it

In Minor Official Matters.

Kypchak ( Generalized Eurasian Turkic Dialect written in cyrillic ) Is used officially in the south.

EESC ( Eastern European Standardized Cyrillic ) Is Used in the West for official situations.

Chinese ( Peoples Standardized Variant which is a highly simplified form. ) is used in the east

In the South-West - Farsi is sometimes used for official situations
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Valkan
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Postby Valkan » Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:13 am

The official languages are Polish and Valkanian - the latter being used in official situations. Other common languages include Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian and Russian.
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Themiclesia
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Postby Themiclesia » Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:59 am

The royal court at Luttonwic speaks Pulian in official situations.

Grammatically and structurally, it is conceived as a contemporary of Proto-Indo-European, but its vocabulary has been supplanted with words from Sumerian and other Oriental languages. Its script is a mixture of logographs (to mark roots) and syllabaries (to mark inflection).
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Hazamaeia
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Postby Hazamaeia » Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:35 am

the Hazam language is the sole language of conversation in the federal and high governorate level.
other vernacular and regional languages may be used in state/province and below.
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Wardie land
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Postby Wardie land » Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:31 am

English

Japanese is the most common secondary language, but isn't an official language, despite quite a number of people speaking it
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Orennana
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Postby Orennana » Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:42 am

British English is the official language, and all official documents are written in, or translated into, English. However, pretty much every language is spoken here, so as long as the document has been translated, the original can also be filed, regardless of what language it was written in. Likewise, all legal procedings, whilst written up in English, are generally conducted in the first language of the majority of the participants (unless there are more than 2 people present who don't speak that language at all). But since everyone in the country speaks English anyway, most things are done in English.
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Asigna
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Postby Asigna » Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:02 am

Deep Tagalog, English and even Spanish
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Hundermenschen
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Postby Hundermenschen » Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:06 am

German and English in some cases.
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Liram
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Postby Liram » Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:06 am

We have three official languages: English, Dutch and Spanish. We also use latin to communicate between religious nations and companies.

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Lolomz
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Postby Lolomz » Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:16 am

by law civil identity section 2 the languages of lolomz by different uses


official language/s : english , german
minority language : dutch ,french , italian , spanish , arabic and hebrew
diplomatic languages: american english , spanish and arabic
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Greater Benelux
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Postby Greater Benelux » Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:43 am

The three major languages of Greater Benelux are Dutch, French and Luxembourgish. Dutch is primarily used in political and official situations. German is another common language, although unofficial, widely spoken around the easternmost regions of Wallonia.
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Soled
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Postby Soled » Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:52 am

Soled, our native language and Russian are used.
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