Work language

Work languages What are you speaking?

What are Working Languages?

A working language is a language that is given a unique legal status in a supranational company, society, state or other body or organization as its primary means of communication.

What are Working Languages?

• What motivates us
• Type of relationships you want or have
• A representation of yourself

Languages

Quality Time

Gifts

Physical Touch

Affirmation

Service

Official language

An official language, also called state language, is a language given a special status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction. Typically a country's official language refers to the language used in government (judiciary, legislature, administration).[1] The term "official language" does not typically refer to the language used by a people or country, but by its government.[2][3]

178 countries of the world recognize an official language, 101 of them recognizing more than one. The government of Italy officialised Italian only in 1999,[4] and some nations (such as the United States) have never declared official languages at the national level.[5] Other nations have declared non-indigenous official languages. "The Philippines and parts of Africa live with a peculiar cultural paradox. Although the official languages [in Africa] may be French or English, these are not the languages most widely spoken by [the country's] residents."[5]

Many of the world's constitutions mention one or more official or national languages.[6][7] Some countries use the official language designation to empower indigenous groups by giving them access to the government in their native languages. In countries that do not formally designate an official language, a de facto national language usually evolves. English is the most common official language, with recognized status in 51 countries. Arabic, French, and Spanish are also widely recognized.

An official language that is also an indigenous language is called endoglossic, one that is not indigenous is exoglossic.[8] An instance is Nigeria which has three endoglossic official languages. By this the country aims to protect the indigenous languages although at the same time recognising the English language as its lingua franca. In spatial terms, indigneous (endoglossic) languages are employed in the function of official (state) languages in Eurasia, while only non-indigenous (exoglossic) imperial (European) languages fulfill this function in the "Rest of the World" (that is, in Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania).[9]