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In this clip I talk about the top 3 countries with the most official languages.
Can you guess what language this is? (#2)
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Slight correction Paul: South Africa has now 12 official languages, the additional being South African Sign Language
Meanwhile, some countries do have NO official languages like the neighbor of Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Although UK as a sovereign state has no official language, three of the four constituent countries do. In Wales, English and Welsh are official languages. In Northern Ireland, English and Irish are both official languages. In Scotland the official languages are Scots, Scottish English, Scottish Gaelic and British Sign Language. England remains without an official language.
and yet these countries are monolingual while certain more diverse countries just have one official language often one that nobody even speaks natively over there .
And Karens will be like: You’re in America, seak English!
If you have to file all your official documents in English, then English is the official language, no matter what they claim
@Siseja No, “majority language” is more suitable for what you say.
Usa doesn’t have an official language, but obviously, English is the most widely spoken and is what i speak. I spent 10 years learning Spanish and actually got very far with it for a while since it’s the 2nd most widely spoken language here. However, between struggling to get a job in spanish language, people constantly replying back to me in English when i speak spanish, and getting rejected from graduate school for spanish language, i haven’t used the spanish language much in the last 5 years and my abilities with it have greatly diminished. The moral of the story is that if you dont want your languages to disappear, stop replying in english whenever someone makes a sincere effort to speak your language 😅 That’s why I’m now focusing on developing a career in tech
Some countries haven’t felt the need to declare an official language officially, because one language is so dominant that nobody really questions its place. And yes, America is a good example of this phenomenon: the second most spoken language in America is Spanish, which is widely taken as a second language in high school but has _negative_ prestige among native-speaking immigrants from Latin America, to the point where many of them actively avoid allowing their kids to take it in school, choosing any other language that’s available instead, to avoid the stigma. (I have met people who can’t talk to their grandparents without a translator, because of this. Most of the white kids they went to school with took Spanish, but the Hispanic kids were discouraged from doing so, by their parents.)
@@jonadabtheunsightly You mean the UNITED STATES?
@@jonadabtheunsightly Yeah, I know that latino immigrants to the US have a great deal of pressure to assimilate into American cultural norms, which sadly means many of them choose to give up their native language of Spanish. I don’t think they should have to do that, especially since Spanish is widely used in American life.
The same thing is what happened when my ancestors immigrated from Germany. Most of my ancestors were German or Polish (with the exception of 1 great-great grandparent who came from Norway I believe), and at the time they immigrated, German was the 2nd most widely spoken language. Of course, German fell out of favor in WW2, but still, it’s sad that these languages disappear like this. I wish the United States had the more Canadian style Mosaic approach to immigrant cultures, rather than this melting pot American style where immigrant cultures get watered down and absorbed into the broader American cultural soup.
Ok amigo !, parece que hay 2 clases de español… el hispano… y el Internacional jajaja (son lo mismo…, pero es como si dependiendo quien lo hable y qué acento tenga… pueda haber cierto “racismo” o discriminación). El asunto parece provenir de que quienes lo hablan son ciudadanos que ganan menos dinero en USA que los que hablan inglés con acento inglés nativo… O sea que en ese caso es un asunto de status quo y de dinero. Venite a Argentina y utilizá el acento de español que quieras… O a Uruguay… Acá no discriminamos. O no sé, tal vez otra opción sea irte a vivir a esos barrios de Miami (Highalea ?) en donde el español es Rey ! xD
@@jhonyermo Isn’t that what I said?
Slovenia hasinority language status for Hungarian/Magyar & Italian. The whole bit about Austrian German is not a thing, because of how borders were resolved after WW1. Croatian isn’t official, but people speak it near the border albeit as a linguistic continuum in places. Ljubljana city has a french inspired accent due to the Illyrian Province era and Napoleon’s idea of education here, reason why Ljubljana has the largest Napoleon Bonaparte monument outside of France today. English is spoken, but the accent can be a bit difficult.
Any Indigenous level can get official status at departmental level in Bolivia, and as they still have uncontacted tribes they theoretically have an indeterminate number of native languages
I’m shocked and surprise=shockprise
As for Brazil, the official language is Portuguese, though there are some other ones w/ co-official status, such as native Brazilian, like Nheengatu, Tukano and Baniwa, or immigrant, like German, Pomeranian and Talian (a dialect of Venetian spoken in Rio Grande do Sul).
In Kazakhstan we have two official languages: Kazakh and Russian. We use them almost equally here.
In high school, we had an exchange student who was from Kazakhstan, but she primarily seemed to speak Russian instead of Kazakh. I just remember whenever she would be struggling to answer in English, our teacher would just tell her to answer it in Russian. I’m not saying this to question your statement, but I wish I would’ve had the opportunity to ask her more about her Kazakh speaking abilities.
@@64immaI’m not sure it would have been a problem for her to answer in Kazakh. I know some guys from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, who speak respective local languages on a native lever and sometimes visibly struggle to pick an appropriate word while speaking Russian, but nevertheless, don’t display even an accent. I’m also familiar with the opposite examples, when they speak Russian only, but their Kazakhstani experience put them aside from Russians. These guys are going to be more rare with time
Русский разве государственный в Казахстане? И к сожалению вы русский используете намного больше
@@AboHamza-lj1uo Не государственный, но официальный. Когда дело касается каждого отдельного гражданина, естественно, что он может быть более казахоязычным или русскоязычным, но суть та же. К тому же в Казахстане уровень владения гражданами казахским языком почти такой же как и русским.
@@64imma Actually you are right, Russian is far more widely spread in Kazakhstan than Kazakh. But I mean that we have no problem with communicating with one another.
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the US has no official language, but my home state NJ has all government documents available in english, spanish, and gujarati, and it’s pretty easy to find translators for those languages here too. i’ve also seen translators available at my local hospital in languages like hindi, tagalog, mandarin, cantonese, and ilocano, since there are a lot of asian immigrant families in the area.
NJ, being in the NY metro area, is going to have speakers from countries around the world
Where I live there are two codified official languages: Welsh and English. Outside Wales, there are no official languages in the UK, although in practice it’s always English.
Scotland has four official languages: English, Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), Scots, and Sign Language
In Russia, I think we only have one on a federal level, Russian. We learn English for 10 years, but not very well. By the end of school i was able to read a little bit, but had 0 listening comprehension.
In national republics there is at least one additional language. For example, I was forced to learn the Buryat language because of this.
@Chess123chess yeah, I know that we have literal nations with their own language inside.
In Poland, the official language is Polish. We’ve also got the Kashubian language, which has got the status of a regional language. It means that it can be official in the counties where a lot of people speak that language. Some counties in the Pomeranian area do use it as the second language for official purposes.
My native language is Polish, but after hearing some Kashubian videos on YouTube I see it is not so hard to understand it. I’m not sure if I would say so after meeting people in the street, speaking quickly and casually.
The basis of the development and progress of any people and any country is a single national language used in all fields.
In Spain administratively speaking the official language is spanish or castilian but there are regions that have their own native languages: catalan, basque and galician. Altough there are other native languages but not officially recognized
In Israel there are 3 official languages: Hebrew, Arabic and English. They’re all used in road signs, street signs and bus stations. And, in governmental stuff you can also find Russian and even Amharic
In Palestine
Despite its continental size and several indigenous languages, in Brazil, we only have Portuguese as an official language.
That is the most interesting short I have seen for a while, great job!
Thanks! I’m glad to hear that.
As you mentioned, Canada’s official languages are English and French, i use English in my regular life, French, not really, i used to speak it all the time at school, i went to French school for 12 years. Now i occasionally speak it but often text people in French, sometimes i comment on videos or reply to comments in French.
Switzerland. 4 official languages, German, French, Italian and Romansh. German is dominant with about 70% of the population using it as their first language. We have a few towns that are billingual (German/French) and treat both languages equally on a local level, but for the most part the linguistic borders are quite sharp.