Russian
официальный язык Portuguese
língua oficial brasileira Spanish
idiomas oficiales Catalan
llengua oficial 
Language given special status in some polity.
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Māori did not become an official language of New Zealand until 1987.
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Similarly, conversational i-Taukei is not the official language of our indigenous community.
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The only official language should've been Arabic, the language of the Quran.
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But Wei, not as accustomed to the official language, began losing patience.
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And he wasn't one for regular outbursts in the first official language.
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But you were asking, Frances, why French is the official language here.
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Rane-Khalap drafted official language bill was extremely ambivalent, if not wholly unimplementable.
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LANGUAGE: English is the official language, but Ga is the main local language.
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Soon we shall make Russian the official language of the country.
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Spanish is the official language, but most citizens speak some English.
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English has now been imposed as the official language of 57 sovereign countries!
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But it will remain the official language of the Politics Digest.
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And perhaps to add emphasis, he did so in the first official language.
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LANGUAGES: The official language is Portuguese but Portuguese-based creole is the lingua franca.
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Protesters chanted demands in Mandarin, China's official language, for the traders to leave.
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Arabic is the official language, but English is taught from grade school onward.
