Re: OT: passport languages
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 29, 2003, 6:04 |
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--- John Cowan skrzypszy:
> > In the United States, passports are in English and French.
> > I assume that those of other countries are in their official
> > language and French, but are any in three (or more) lan-
> > guages?
>
> Note that English is not the official language of the United States.
Really? Is there an official language at all?
> I would guess that Swiss passports are in French, German, and Italian.
And Rhaeto-Romance, I would expect.
Our EU-passports are in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese,
Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Greek. I don't have my passport with me now, so I
can't check of Irish is on it, too.
Jan
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