Sentence examples for second official language from inspiring English sources

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

Many of the names of their yuyos are in Paraguay's second official language, Guarani.

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

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

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

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

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".

My Italian was worse than poor, and I was not tempted to learn Romansch, Switzerland's fourth official language.

The HSE said that some of its systems were unable to use the accent, which it acknowledged was crucial to the country's first official language.

No one gets mad that Irish is the first official language of Ireland or that the Irish government offers wage bonuses for Irish fluency.