Does your country have an offical language? In Canada, our official languages are English and French but I know the US doesn't have an official language. Why is that, should a country have an official

Casey

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Does your country have an offical language? In Canada, our official languages are English and French but I know the US doesn't have an official language. Why is that, should a country have an official language(s) ? I think it would be better for a country to recognize all the cultures and all the languages spoken within the country.

May 29, 2018 6:42 PM

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While you're absolutely right about the whole Canada, I would remind that the majority of the Provinces still have only one official language, which is everywhere English, except the Quebec (French).

Several Provinces have two official languages (English & French).

But the most interesting the situation in Northwest Territories. There are 10 (yes, ten!) OFFICIAL languages in the Canadian Northwest Territories! I'm curious about the official documents there. I can imagine how the one-page doc became the ten-paged doc because of all those translations.

The situation with the official language isn't so simple as it would seem from the first glance. Regrettably, our world isn't ideal.

Unfortunately, a lot of politicians are using the languages largely for the promotion their ideas in a very dirty way, provoking people to confront each other, fighting to cut off the territories.

May 30, 2018

Iran has a wast variety of different ethnic groups and some races so we have some languages and a lot of accents. but we have an official language, Farsi. All students must to learn Farsi at schools despite their mother tongue.

personally i agree with official language because i can travel around my country and communicate with people but if we didn't force to learn a common language, we were strangers in a country and that was bad.

May 30, 2018

As you mentioned, we don't have an official language in the US on a federal level. Many states have designated an official state language(s), though the designation is usually ceremonial. I don't think we need to have an official language, though if one was designated, I think the US should go the route of Canada and be officially bilingual, with the second language being Spanish.

May 30, 2018