Khmer is the official national language and spoken by more than 95% of the population.
He speaks the official national language, French, poorly and the unofficial one, Lingala, not at all.
The regional variations may include other musical instruments, but all are united by a common national language and artistic history.
In the early 1980s, when Mr Berlusconi's channels were starting up, fewer than 30% of Italians spoke only their national language.
The press can write anything so long as it does not touch on issues of religion, race, the national language and the king.
And Congress can't seem to debate immigration reform without declaring English the national language, even though one has nothing to do with the other.
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Belize, which used to be called British Honduras, has English as a national language and has a legal system based on England just as ours is.
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In 2008 the burden was reduced somewhat by the London Agreement, under which countries can waive the right to have patents translated into their national language.
Many of the black elite, who send their children to English-speaking private schools or former white state schools, may accept English emerging as the sole national language.
In this isolated and impoverished area, where people cannot even speak the Indonesian national language, it is not hard to imagine separatist sentiments gaining a foothold again.
That is why it took Switzerland more than 20 years to introduce teaching in a second national language (German or French) at the age of 11-plus instead of 14.
Malay remains the national language (there are four official languages), but it is not spoken by most Chinese and is largely seen as a relic of Singapore's past union with Malaysia.
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In 1965, violent rioting erupted across Tamil Nadu over attempts by nationalist politicians in the north to ban English and impose Hindi, the national language derived from Sanskrit, on the entire country.
We looked at Costa Rica and Panama first, but both countries speak Spanish as their national language and, as with most South American countries, the legal system was based on Napoleonic law.
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Later, however, Chief Justice Eusoff Chin overruled Paul, issuing a circular reminding judges of Section 8 of the National Language Act, which states that all court proceedings must be in Bahasa Malaysia.
With independence in 1962, the adoption of Arabic as the national language was a natural choice to mark the break with France and forge an identity suited to the country's new status as a third-world leader.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, whose presidential campaign is rooted in his strong opposition to immigration reform, said the bill would be the first step toward abandoning English as a national language and becoming "a bilingual nation, " which he opposes.
But countries that want to clamp down on tax evasion, protect their national language, or deter such foreign customs as forced marriage, should do so through specific laws tailored to these ends, rather than relying on the symbolic power of citizenship.
Representatives from government institutions, NGOs and development partners including the Royal Academy of Cambodia, National Language Institute, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, UNESCO, UNICEF, CARE Cambodia, and International Cooperation for Cambodia (ICC), shared their research findings, field experiences, and lessons learned.
Under , the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 Bord na Gaidhlig was required to prepare and submit to Scottish ministers a national Gaelic language plan which must include proposals as to the exercise of its functions under that Act.
Murtaza Razvi was a well-known columnist and political analyst with the national English language daily Dawn.
This is because those rarefied debates on the break-up of Britain are invariably conducted in the grandiloquent language of national destiny and constitutional architecture.
Still, to the extent that India, with its many languages and cultures, persists as a cohesive national entity, the language of Macaulay plays a large role.
Currently, there is a national shortage of sign language interpreters in the United States, even though there are 40 schools offering bachelor degree programs in American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting and 78 that offer associate degrees.
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Nearly 5, 000 members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, also known as the PRI, voted unanimously at their national convention to remove language in the party's platform that for years had opposed injecting private money in the sector.
Wintemute said the researchers did a good job with the limited data they had available but said the larger problem dates back to the 1990s, when the National Rifle Association inserted language into the CDC's appropriation that limited its work on how to reduce firearm injuries.
Ms Bokova also laid wreaths at Shaheed Minar, a national monument commemorating those killed during the Language Movement demonstrations of 1952, and at the National Memorial honouring the martyrs of the Liberation War of 1971.
Hardest hit: Spanish-language newspapers, national newspapers and business-to-business magazines, which respectively plummeted 11%, 9.5% and 5.9%, year over year.
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