English, Australia's official language, is almost universally spoken.
Despite these efforts, Basque and Catalan are far from universally spoken in their respective territories: only around half of Catalans habitually use Catalan and about 25% of Basques speak Euskera.The nationalists' linguistic dogmatism is provoking a backlash.
You don't hear of too many other countries being universally spoken of this way.
Indeed, about 1 million ethnic Russians live in Crimea, where Russian is nearly universally spoken and where only four of 600 schools teach in Ukrainian.
To their dismay, while Santorum campaigned last week for the Republican primary in Puerto Rico, he expressed that English should be universally spoken, and the upcoming plebiscite should garner more than a simple majority vote of 51percentt, as conditions for statehood.
The minister also gave some reasons why the people were keen to learn English, telling us that "English being the language universally spoken by the higher classes, the mass of the people attach a notion of superior refinement to the possession of it".
Similarly, the term "preferred language" is not relevant because, although dialects are spoken, the Mandarin Chinese language is universally spoken.
The materials were initially created in English, then translated into Swahili, the universally spoken language in the study area.
Instability The national language of the country, Sango, is almost universally spoken, a commonality that one would hope could promote the settlement of crises and national reconciliation.
Almost all textbooks and learning resources teach you Standard Japanese, which is universally spoken and understood across Japan and is an effective base for building upon your knowledge.
