Re: OT: passport languages

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: OT: passport languages


> Joe scripsit:
>
> > > Note that English is not the official language of the United States.
> >
> > English, Spanish, and Hawai'ian, isn't it?
>
> One or more of those are official languages of certain states, but
> the United States as a whole has no official language.  As far as I can
> make out, the U.K. has much the same story:  in Wales, Welsh and English
> are both official, but England, Scotland, N.I., and the U.K. as a whole
> have no official languages.
>
> De facto, of course, English is used by officialdom in all these places.
 To be eligible for UK citixenship, one must speak English, Scottish Gaelic,
or Welsh, AFAIK.  I'm not sure if this says anything about official
languages.

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