Sentence examples for fourth official language from inspiring English sources

His latest pronouncement - that Arabic should be recognised as Belgium's fourth official language after French, Flemish and German - has been too much for many to bear.

The port city remains a powderkeg: one in three voters supports the anti-immigration Vlaams Blok party, while many young Muslims appear attracted to a radical organisation called the Arab European League, whose leader has demanded that Arabic be recognised as the country's fourth official language.

You can write your Ph.D. thesis in English, French, German, or Italian (and possibly even in Rumansch--Switzerland?s fourth official language).

The constitution lists Irish as "the national language" and "first official language"; English is merely "a second official language".

She circumvented the sensitive issues of making Russian a second official language or joining NATO.

Swift-thinking NATO officials quickly shifted to the alliance's forgotten second official language, French.

Irish (Gaelic) is the first official language of Ireland, but in practice almost everybody speaks English.

The state they created made Gaelic compulsory and insisted that it must be the "first official language".

In 1999, Mirandese became Portugal's second official language, thanks to regional lobbying and a lawmaker sympathetic to the cause.

The second official language is Arabic, which is spoken chiefly in northern Somalia and in the coastal towns.

Seth Kugel visits a remote corner of Portugal to get a taste of the country's second official language, Mirandese (above).