LINGUIS 155AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: English-Only Movement, Bilingual Education Act, Bilingual Education
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Switzerland (4), singapore (4), south africa (11) 28 states, and 7 territories with authority to name their own official languages. Indo european (75%): hindi/urdu, bengali, gujarati, punjabi, and english. Official language of republic of india are hindi and english (40-1%) 22 scheduled languages recognized and may have official statis in various indian states. High courts must use hindi, although controversial, but supreme court of india uses. Non-fluent members may get permission to use mother tongue. Sankrit, tamil, telugu, and kannada are declared classical languages . Indian constitution section 351 - sanskrit primary source language for development of. But scheduled languages also recognized as legitimate sources for enrichment of hindi. Some countries no official language like u. s. and great britain. Ideology of monolingual come up in countires with dominant language and where have been language diversity from immigration. Several states have passed it, including ca (prop 63)