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 List of countries by official languages - Simple English Wikipedia
The USA Federal Government does not have an official language; English is the first language by custom, not law.
English is an official language in the following states and territories.
NOTE: Whether Galician is in fact a language, or a dialect of Portuguese, is a matter of debate among linguists.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_countries_by_official_languages   (954 words)

  
 PART 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
The meaning of the agreement is determined by the language the parties use and their actions, interpreted in the light of commercial practice and other surrounding circumstances.
The term automated transaction is not inconsistent with a system in which, when some aspect of the transaction appears to be irregular, or when a message or transaction being processed by an automated system fails system edits and is repaired by a data entry clerk or other employee with no authorization to bind a party.
The language used in an agreement is interpreted as meaning what it may fairly be expected to mean to parties involved in the particular commercial transaction in a given locality or in a given vocation or trade.
www.law.upenn.edu /bll/ulc/ucita/ucitacom300.htm   (19189 words)

  
 List of official languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Official languages at the level of state or provincial unit only
The USA Federal Government can not declare an official language by federal law, since the United States is comprised of sovreign states.
The official language is decided by majority of the states whose official languages are declared; English is the first language by custom and majority.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_official_languages   (944 words)

  
 Native American languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Native American languages are the indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken by Native Americans from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America.
The language or languages spoken by these early migrants, and the process by which the current diversity of Native American languages emerged, are a matter of speculation.
Native American languages vary greatly in the number of speakers, from Quechua, Aymara, Guarani, and Nahuatl with millions of active speakers to a number of languages with only a handful of elderly speakers.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/Native-American-languages.htm   (1373 words)

  
 Learn more about List of official languages in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Republic of Ireland (with English as a secondary official language)
Official languages at the level of state or provincial unit
See also List of official languages by institution for the official languages of regional or international institutions.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_official_languages.html   (775 words)

  
 Official Languages Good Practices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A brochure on language of work, posters, and billboards on conducting meetings are all part of the arsenal used by employees to help them serve in one of the two official languages.
Thus, the Official Languages Committee was mandated to prepare a list of initiatives that could help departments and agencies support the priorities identified by the community and implement measures involving the collaboration of at least two federal departments or other organizations.
This project was based on the ISO 9001 approach, with a focus on respect for official languages and the human dimension, and a call for cultural and structural change in the organization through a promise of quality, a "quality" manual, and a range of procedures and tools on language of work.
www.hrma-agrh.gc.ca /ollo/bp/index_e.asp   (8251 words)

  
 Languages of Member States of the Union
Ireland did not object to recognition as official languages being granted to languages with fewer speakers than Irish has according to the censuses, and there is no evidence that this country’s representatives made any complaint that it would cost too much to increase the number of official languages in that manner.
Though Irish is an official language in Ireland, it is not an official language of the European Union.
If status as an official language were to be arranged for Irish, I believe that a revolution would occur in the schools within two years in the opinions of students and their parents concerning the relative importance of Irish as a school subject.
www.cnag.ie /nuacht/polb.htm   (8104 words)

  
 1-- CODED INFORMATION BLOCK - UNIMARC Manual : Bibliographic Format 1994 - IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and ...
The language or languages of the text when the item being catalogued includes the vocal/textual content of the work(s) printed as text, whether as accompanying material or printed with the item.
In these character positions is entered a code indicating the language used by the cataloguer for those parts of the record such as the notes which do not depend on the language of the item.
The language(s) of the parallel title(s) proper appearing in this field may be indicated in the $z subfield(s) in field 200.
www.ifla.org /VI/3/p1996-1/uni1.htm   (11449 words)

  
 Official Documents
There is an increasing demand to address the post-colonial position of transplanted populations, such as the descendants of slave trades and indentured labour practices, and their disadvantaged inheritance due to the practices of colonialism and imperialism through the promotion of cultural exchanges between root and diasporic cultures.
Increasing recognition of the homogenising and universalising tendencies of a cultural discourse that fails to recognise the cultural borders of gender and ethnicity.
Cultural maintenance or living heritage concerns of language preservation, promotion of voices, values and traditions are central to ensure that the cultural and economic outcomes of developmental concerns are in the best interests of local, regional, national and global cultural diversity.
icom.museum /diversity.html   (4184 words)

  
 Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . Official American . John Adams | PBS
Adams felt strongly that one common language was important to the new United States — and despite the dispute with England, that the language should be English.
It is not to be disputed that the form of government has an influence upon language, and language, in its turn, influences not only the form of government, but the temper, the sentiments, and manners of the people.
Perhaps no language was ever studied at once by so many persons at a time, in proportion, as the French is now studied in America; and it is certain that English was never so much studied in France as since the Revolution; so that the difficulties of understanding one another are lessening every day.
www.pbs.org /speak/seatosea/officialamerican/johnadams   (4520 words)

  
 Evertype: The Alphabets of Europe
Accordingly, languages are listed by family and subfamily in clause 1.2.1, and alphabetically in clause 1.2.2.
For each language, first the name of the language is given in English, followed by the original name of the language in its natural spelling, with a transliteration into Latin letters in parentheses where the original language does not use the Latin script.
In some cases, especially in the case of the “lesser-used” languages, this information may have been inferred from the preferred quotation marks used by a “dominant” language in the area in which the “lesser-used” language is found.
www.evertype.com /alphabets   (3504 words)

  
 Tasmanian languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Scholars originally divided the Tasmanian languages, all of which were related to each other, into two groups, a western group, spoken in western Tasmania and...
The language diversity of Africa is considerable as compared with Europe, where there are two language families—Finno-Ugric and Indo-European.
From their origins in East-Central Europe, the Slavic languages spread widely and are now spoken throughout most of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, parts of Central Europe, and the northern portion of Asia.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9071361?tocId=9071361   (813 words)

  
 Language Grants - Blakemore Freeman Fellowships
Approval of language programs for study of other languages will be considered on a individual basis during the application review process.
It is the applicant's individual responsibility to apply to the language program which he or she lists on the Blakemore Freeman Fellowship application.
The Foundation must be provided with an official transcript from the language program at which the student is enrolled for each academic period covered by a Blakemore Freeman Fellowship.
www.blakemorefoundation.org /language.htm   (1486 words)

  
 ESPN.com::Degree Match the Moments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A potential First Prize winner is not officially a winner until Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability Release and, where permitted by law, a Publicity Release has been executed and returned and entry validated.
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r.espn.go.com /espn/contests/degree/rules   (2822 words)

  
 The alt.education.distance FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) v 8.0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Institutes that do not have such accreditation can exist legally by meeting the state requirements, and are known as "state licensed" or "state approved" universities.
Candidates whose first language is not English must provide evidence that their English language level is sufficient to meet the specific demands of their study.
There are educational institutions (or at least their administrative components) who seem to fail to make this distinction, and thus think of themselves oddly as keepers (gate) of knowledge and repositories for information.
personalpages.tds.net /~rlaws/dlfaqv8.html   (7309 words)

  
 The Most Frequently Asked Questions About Teacher Education and Licensure in Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In addition, funds have been provided to the master's degree programs in speech language pathology at Radford, Hampton, and James Madison universities and the University of Virginia, as well as for the mentor teacher support programs for beginning and teachers who are new to a school division.
You must obtain an evaluation of your credentials (including a listing of the courses completed and the semester hour equivalent for each course) and a statement as to the equivalency of your program of study to the four-year baccalaureate degree.
“Accredited institution” means an institution of higher education accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education.
www.pen.k12.va.us /VDOE/newvdoe/faq.html   (2479 words)

  
 Getalu ambihtlicra sprǣca - Wikipedia
New Zealand (an official sprǣc by custom; the other by law is Māori)
The USA Federal Government does not have an official language; English is the official language de facto.
Countries that include several official languages only use one, often to avoid adding languages to the chart unnecessarily, preventing confusion.)
ang.wikipedia.org /wiki/Getalu_ambihtlicra_spr%C7%A3ca   (835 words)

  
 List of official languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Official languages of sovereign countries">1 Official languages of sovereign countries
Official languages at the level of state or provincial unit only">2 Official languages at the level of state or provincial unit only
'' NOTE: Whether Galician is in fact a language, or a dialect of Portuguese, is a matter of debate among linguists.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_official_languages   (967 words)

  
 Computer Science
This listing is part of the Scholarly Societies Project sponsored by the University of Waterloo Library.
Developed by the NEC Research Institute, CiteSeer is a database containing citations to journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports in computer and allied sciences.
NCSTRL is a collection of research reports and papers from institutions around the world awarding doctoral degrees in computer science or engineering, and some industrial and government research laboratories.
library.albany.edu /subject/csci.htm   (7967 words)

  
 GuruNet — Content Map
List of objects at the Sun-Earth Lagrangian points
List of objects dropped on New Year's Eve
List of officers of the People's Liberation Army
www.gurunet.com /cm-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-23051   (60 words)

  
 languagehat.com
Among the discoveries was an amphora containing an intact text written in linear B, the language of the court at Mycenae where the legendary Agamemnon ruled.
So I went to my handy Russkii yazyk: entsyklopediya [Russian language: encyclopedia] and found a whole article about орфограммы, which I will summarize for you thus: an orfogramma is a point of uncertainty in the spelling of a word, a place where you can't tell from the sound alone how to write it.
A consistently reproducible way to represent phonomorphological features of a given language in writing, such -ого for the Russian masculine genitive singular of adjectives, instead of the phonetic spelling -ава: нового (nóvəvə).
www.languagehat.com   (1579 words)

  
 All National Women's History Month Honorees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In over two thousand letters written to her husband John, to family and friends, and to government officials, she articulately expressed her ideas on the American Revolution, the new nation, the American family, foreign courts, and war.
Her testimony led to national awareness and the creation and implementation of new policies by businesses, educational institutions, and government to identify and stop sexual harassment.
With a doctorate in astrophysics, she now directs the California Space Institute at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, researching ways to preserve the earth’s environment by using space technology.
www.nwhp.org /whm/all-honorees.html   (10326 words)

  
 EMBASSY OF GREECE: PRESS OFFICE - Contact Form   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Greek was the language of the Gospels and has made a major contribution to all western languages.
The largest cities were represented by official ambassadors to Olympia, the "theoroi".
The list was soon expanded to include contests typical of the whole Hellenic world.
www.greekembassy.org /press/facts   (3332 words)

  
 airontario.ca - Spanish language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
We have Language Spanish and more products for the...
Spanish language school that specializes in teaching the Spanish language and its culture through an intensive, total-immersion program.
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Public safety officials handed out and then took away materials intended to educate the state's Hispanic community on South Carolina's new seat belt law on Friday after at least one person pointed out the...
www.airontario.ca /Spanish-language/reference/search   (298 words)

  
 Malta - Malta map and information page by World Atlas
Official site declares Malta to be center of the universe, provides the usual civic information, and highlights the Victorian village of Round Lake.
In Malta it is frequently flown by any one, without restriction, This was the Malta flag for centuries and the augmentation of our national flag with
Established in 1848, the Malta Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise is an autonomous institution aimed at promoting, servicing and representing the interests
malta.easylookfor.com   (205 words)

  
 List of official languages at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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wiki.tatet.org /List_of_official_languages.html   (882 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Hungary
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Kisvállalkozás-fejlesztési Intézet (KfI) [Institute for Small Business Development]
Ethnologue: Languages of the World (by Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.)
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/hu.html   (442 words)

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