The number of speakers was further reduced by the official suppression of the language in the Soviet Union, by the antagonism of early Israeli authorities zealously guarding modern Hebrew, and by massive voluntary shifts to other primary languages in Western countries.
Tracing the development of consciousness in the early modern period is complicated by the fact that both Latin and French, the two primary languages in which philosophy was written, have a single term that could mean either (a) moral conscience, or (b) consciousness.
Further, unlike Puerto Rico, English is the primary language in the Virgin Islands.
Similarly, Khmer is the primary language in Cambodia, as is Vietnamese in Vietnam.
Miami has become the economic "capital" of the Caribbean, and Spanish has surpassed English as the primary language in some areas.
Perhaps Mr. Santorum was saying that if he were president, he would seek such a federal law, but there are no requirements now for a territory to adopt English as its primary language in order to become a state.
The Rosenbergs have often claimed that the Shomrim responds faster than the police, and that their members have the advantage of speaking Yiddish, the primary language in the Hasidic areas.
The translation is just one of the services that Mr. Rangel offers to his Hispanic constituency in New York's 15th Congressional District, in which Spanish is the primary language in nearly half the households, according to the 2000 census, and is invariably heard in barbershops, bodegas and political clubs.
German continued to be the primary language in the town until World War II, and today, many of the town's older residents still speak a distinct Texas-German dialect that has been studied by linguists around the world.
Takanakuy, which translates to "when the blood is boiling" in Quechua (the primary language in the region), is a sort of more organized version of the comical "Festivus", a holiday that most people believe was invented by the 1990s US TV sitcom Seinfeld.
However, the U.S. Constitution does not designate an official language, nor is there a requirement that a territory adopt English as its primary language in order to become a state.
