لغة وطنية اللغات الوطنية والرسمية
After their defeat in the الحرب الأهلية الصينية in 1949, the الكومينتانغ regime of the تايوان retreated to the island of تايوان. They introduced ماندراين الصينية as the national language on the island, though it was not spoken by a majority of the population at that time.
The official language of the تونسn state is لغة عربية. But, that language is not the mother tongue of the population or used to communicate between Tunisian people, instead دارجة تونسية plays these roles and is the national language of Tunisia. Also, even without an official status, لغة فرنسية is also used extensively in its written and spoken form in the administration, education and business environment and known by 63.6% of the population. Also Berber minorities in the south-west and on جربة use the Tunisian Chelha language to communicate between themselves.
تعتبر اللغة التركية اللغة الوطنية في تركيا، وذلك منذ إنشاء الجمهورية التركية.
The لغة إنجليزية (إنجليزية بريطانية) is the de facto official language of the المملكة المتحدة and is the sole language of an estimated 95% of the بريطانيون population.[بحاجة لمصدر] The three Home Nations outside England have national languages of their own with varying degrees of recognition, which coexist along the dominant English language. Britain also has several تبعيات التاج البريطاني and أقاليم ما وراء البحار البريطانية which are to some extent self-governing, but which are not recognized as independent states. Many of these have their own regional languages.
In أيرلندا الشمالية، both the Gaelic Irish language and the West Germanic أولسترية إسكتلندية are recognized by the اتفاق الجمعة العظيمة as "part of the cultural wealth of the island of Ireland" and are promoted by the فورس ناغليج (Irish Institute) and Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch (the Ulster-Scots Agency) respectively.
In Scotland, لغة غيلية إسكتلندية is a minority language spoken by 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population aged over three years old). The Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 gives the language a limited official status, and the Bòrd na Gàidhlig is tasked with «securing the status of the Gaelic language as an لغة رسمية of إسكتلندا commanding equal respect to the English language» لغة إسكتلندية، generally treated as a لغات جرمانية غربية related to but separate from English, has no official status but is recognized as a minority language, and is the language of much الأدب الإسكتلندي، including the poetry of روبرت برنز.
The لغة ويلزية has official status within ويلز، and as of the 2011 census, is spoken by 562,000 people, or 19% of the population. The Welsh Language Board (Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg) is legally tasked with ensuring that, "in the conduct of public business and the administration of justice, the English and Welsh languages should be treated on a basis of equality".
In the الولايات المتحدة، English (إنجليزية أمريكية) is the national language only in an informal sense, by numbers and by historical and contemporary association. The دستور الولايات المتحدة does not explicitly declare any لغة رسمية، although the constitution is written in English, as is all federal legislation.
On February 13, 2015, Representative بيتر كينغ introduced H.R.997, the English Language Unity Act of 2015, in the مجلس النواب الأمريكي. This bill would establish English as the official language of the United States. A companion bill, S.667, was introduced by Senator جيم إنهوف in the مجلس الشيوخ الأمريكي on March 9, 2015. Both bills were referred to committee. Similar legislation has been introduced every year since 1973.
كانت اللغة الفيتنامية اللغة الوطنية في فيتنام بحكم الأمر الواقع لسنوات عديدة. لكنها لم تعتبر لغة وطنية رسمياً حتى صدور المرسوم رقم (5) من دستور عام 2013.