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The Great Zedong Dynasty
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What language(s) are banned in your nation?

Postby The Great Zedong Dynasty » Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:29 am

Linguistic discrimination (also called linguicism) is the unfair treatment of an individual based solely on their use of language. This use of language may include the individual's native language or other characteristics of the person's speech, such as an accent, the size of vocabulary(whether the person uses complex and varied words), modality, and syntax. It may also involve a person's ability or inability to use one language instead of another; for example, one who speaks Occitan in France will probably be treated differently from one who speaks French. Based on a difference in the use of language, a person may automatically form judgments about another person's wealth, education, social status, character or other traits. These perceived judgments may then lead to the unjustifiable treatment of the individual.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_discrimination
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Jerbasa
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Postby Jerbasa » Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:31 am

There are no languages banned in Jerbasa, as that would violate freedom of speech and constitute discrimination.
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The New California Republic
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Postby The New California Republic » Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:31 am

None.
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Navarran highlands
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Postby Navarran highlands » Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:34 am

We dont ban any language in our nation, we think all languages are to be respected, however we have academies that prevent the informal varieties of language from having prominence in our society. Our culture is traditionalistic and conservative even in our spoken and written language. Our spoken and written language are polite and precise in all that we do. This is not enforced by any law but by the society itself.

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Gandoor
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Postby Gandoor » Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:35 am

No languages are banned in the Democratic Republic as that would violate the inalienable right to the freedom of speech granted to all within Gandoor and, depending on the context, could constitute discrimination on the basis of nationality.
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Postby Pacomia » Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:36 am

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Alpes a Septentrionali Imperium
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Postby Alpes a Septentrionali Imperium » Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:38 am

Arabic is banned in all of Alpes excluding some of its colonies.
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Great Americain
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Postby Great Americain » Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:42 am

We banned some unintelligible languages from Great Americain such as broken English and other languages that were deemed unimportant. However there is a huge language revival movement that is pressuring the government to reconsider its stance on the banned languages.

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Achaean Republic
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Postby Achaean Republic » Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:42 am

We don't ban any language in the Achaean Republic, as that would violate freedom of speech; in fact, we encourage our citizens to learn foreign languages (we're a sunny, touristy nation, after all). English is the most commonly spoken second language, though we're trying to improve our proficiency. Other commonly heard languages include French (which can be heard in the older populations before switching to English), Portuguese and to a minor degree German, Russian and Arabic.

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God Chicken
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Postby God Chicken » Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:25 am

We banned all sorts of "degenerate tongues" from the world.
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Horlandian Israel
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Postby Horlandian Israel » Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:27 am

we think all languages are to be respected, none are banned.

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Lillorainen
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Postby Lillorainen » Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:28 am

None.
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Postby Ravennog » Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:32 am

There are no languages banned in Ravennog.
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The Huterric Union
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Postby The Huterric Union » Mon Sep 02, 2019 10:38 am

None - It would be a gross abuse of human rights and deeply unconstitutional
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Pahardesh
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Postby Pahardesh » Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:23 am

Although no languages are technically banned from being spoken in the country, the speaking of foreign languages by Paharis outside of an official or diplomatic context is almost always cause for intense suspicion on the part of the authorities.

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Imperialist Rhodesia
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Postby Imperialist Rhodesia » Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:26 am

We don't discriminate against anyone speaking any languages.

However we encourage the use of English and Afrikaans to be spoken by the people.

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Ant Publithordia
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Founded: Aug 22, 2019
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Postby Ant Publithordia » Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:28 am

No languages are banned in Ant Publithordia.

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Berhakonia
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Postby Berhakonia » Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:02 pm

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Dagnia
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Postby Dagnia » Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:08 pm

No language is banned in Dagnia as our constitution guarantees the right to speak freely. However, the Dagnian language written in the Glagolitic alphabet enjoys special privileges over others by law. All government documents are published in this language and script and contracts written in other languages and scripts may not hold up in court no matter how otherwise legally sound they are.
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Thermodolia
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Postby Thermodolia » Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:50 pm

The only currently banned language in Thermodolia at the Federal level are Japanese and Chinese. At the National level only Thermodolian and English are allowed to be spoken, all other languages are illegal. However these bans do not apply to tourists or public officials interacting with tourists or those who are immigrating
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Postby Victorious Decepticons » Mon Sep 02, 2019 12:58 pm

None are banned from use by the general public, but Binary is the only official language and hardly anyone here understands anything else to a meaningful degree.

As the official language, it is the one used for all government activity and all professional-quality education. This means quite a bit more here than in biological nations. Here are some of the key reasons you will be seriously up shit creek here if you don't know and run on Binary:

1. Obviously, you won't be able to talk to anyone except for scammers who have downloaded your language's Data Pack in preparation for wreaking economic havoc in your home nation with some kind of a con. Talking to such people may yield negative results, especially to your wallet.

2. All of our Educational Data Packs are not only written in Binary, they are actually executable code rather than something you can just open up and read directly. If you can't install them into yourself, you are outta luck for education. This means that in order to get any professionally-provided education, not only your conscious language, but the Code that your mind is literally made of, must be in Cybertronian Binary - and run on the Decepticon OS!

3. If you have a mental illness, you're out of luck if your mind-code is not written in Cybertronian Binary and running on the Decepticon OS. Why? Because "mental illness" is just a rough, biological term for glitchy mind-code. We fix all forms of it by fixing the code directly - with a literal programming patch. The only difference between the types of "mental illness," from a Debugger's perspective, is the size and complexity of the patch required to fix it. Your code isn't accessible or isn't compatible? Then you're untreatable.

4. All of our replacement body parts only accept commands in Binary. Same goes for any weapons or upgrades that are meant to be directly controlled by your body's internal command system.

So, if you intend to try to stay on Cybertron for more than a few weeks, it's pretty much essential that you not only understand Binary, but run on the Decepticon OS as well. For most species other than ours, alas, attaining the second part will require obtaining citizenship and then being ported to a proper (as in, Decepticon) body. However, learning Binary itself isn't all that difficult.

The hard part is being able to understand and speak Binary at a useful bit rate. If you need to use a tongue to make your sounds, rather than a voice chip, you'll may find it physically impossible to reach a reasonable speaking speed. In that case, we're not going to talk to you. Nobody's got the patience to listen to some wetware-user take a full minute to say 30-40 words when we can speak an entire book's worth of them in less than a second! Someone who cannot attain our usual speech bitrate cannot be said to have "conversational Binary" under their belt, even if they can read and write it perfectly.

So, while we don't "ban" other languages outside of government institutions, we do not accommodate them in the least bit. We also quite enjoy the fact that this makes all of our services, such as education and Debugging, totally inaccessible to foreigners at an insurmountable level. The only way around it is to become a full citizen, and in the process, be ported to the Decepticon OS and a proper Decepticon body. Of course, if you do that, you are no longer a foreigner from a legal standpoint.
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Postby Aikoland » Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:24 pm

No languages are banned, although the government attempts to promote the usage of the French language (the sole official language) in the public sphere.

While displaying other languages in public is not illegal, bar a few exceptions, the French language must be more prominent than any other language by law.

The exceptions for the law requiring French to be more prominent are as follows:
- Aikoais, Saunian, and Boullién (native Romance languages classified by the government as 'native minority languages' texts may be displayed on equal status with French
- Anything aimed specifically at non-French speakers (such as an English-language newspaper) is not required to include French and, if it does, does not have to display it more prominently than other languages.
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Kromi
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Postby Kromi » Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:28 pm

[404 NOT FOUND] is banned in Kromi. I mean no language is banned.
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Great Mojave
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Postby Great Mojave » Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:29 pm

It's legal to speak other languages, but folks'll definitely look at you funny for it, as is their right. However, federal documents are only available in English. Individual states, such as Hawai'i, Haida Gwaii, and Baja California have representation of some non-english languages, such as Spanish for the latter.
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Postby Corunia and Mironor » Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:35 pm

No languages are banned in Corunia and Mironor. In fact, it's unconstitutional for languages to be banned, as freedom of speech is protected by the constitution
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