Examples of using Majority language in English and their translations into Arabic
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This acquisition process takes place in natural contexts of majority language setting.
Inuktitut is the majority language in Nunavut, and is one of three official languages in the territory.
In answer to a further question, he said that children who spoke the majority language did not learn minority languages. .
All speak the majority language of the country and they study English in school like other citizens of their respective countries.
Accordingly, every state in the Sudan has its own radio and television stations andthe right to use the majority language.
Guaraní is the majority language of the Paraguayan population(it is spoken by 86 per cent, according to the Population and Housing Census 2002).
If, on the other hand, the environment was negative, they would be morelikely to show preference for speaking the national, majority language.
If, on the other hand, conditions were such that the majority language continued to dominate, minority languages would run the risk of disappearing.
They should have opportunities to use their language andspeak their minority language without being impeded by ignorance of the majority language, Dutch.
In many countries globally,education is only in the national or majority language leaving linguistic minorities disadvantaged.
While Albanian-language primary schools do exist in municipalities which are predominantly Albanian,secondary and higher education exists only in the majority language.
She asked about the language of instruction for vocational courses; if only the majority language was used, that would exclude a large number of minority groups.
It calls upon State parties to make efforts to recognize the right toexpression of views for indigenous children and other children who do not speak the majority language.
Communities where English was the majority language could choose to be bilingual and thus could use English in the municipal government.
For example,some countries only allow for the participation of indigenous representatives if they master the majority language or join national political parties.
If majority languages have prestige and status, whereas minority languages are perceived by members of the majority as inferior and low status, children may become reticent in their use.
Efforts must also be made to recognize the right to expression of viewsfor minority, indigenous and migrant children and other children who do not speak the majority language.
Establish individual curricula or tutoring programmes that support majority language acquisition and, if necessary, other subject areas, so that majority language learning and subject matters can be learned at the same time.
States and territories in which English is the first language of the majority of the population. States and territories in which English is an official,but not the majority language.
In South Tyrol, the majority language is German(69% of the population), although in the capital city Bolzano 73% of the population speaks Italian as its maternal language due to internal immigration from other regions of Italy.
Emphasis on bilingual education had, however, had the effect of reducing the use of the indigenous or minority language to a secondary role,thereby reinforcing the dominant role of the majority language.
However, it was different from Götaland and Svealand, but not Norrland,in that Swedish was not the majority language in this part of the kingdom, except for some areas along the coastline and amongst the nobility and the urban upper classes.
Little progress has been made during the reporting period regarding the language of public signs on buildings and streets;in ethnically mixed areas, street signs often appear only in the majority language.
In another country of that same region,data show that open defecation rates for the population speaking the majority language was 39 per cent, and the rates for minority-speaking populations were significantly higher: between 55 per cent, and 85 per cent among other language speakers.
Only 39% of first generation minority language students completed the course and passed their upper secondary examinations in 1999,while the corresponding figure for majority language pupils is 76%.
The content of communication can be limited, but only on the same grounds as restrictions on the content of expression andinformation in the majority language(s): when the limitations are provided by law and are necessary for the respect of the rights of others or the protection of national security or public order, public health or morals.
ERRC noted that some Romani interviewees reported that their children had been placed in special schools for children with mental disabilities, although their children had no disabilities themselves,merely for reasons such as difficulties speaking the majority language, or lack of available places in regular schools.
The Francization of Brussels refers to the evolution, over the past two centuries,[1][2] of this historically Dutch-speaking city[1][3][4]into one where French has become the majority language and lingua franca.[5] The main cause of this transition was the rapid, yet compulsory assimilation of the Flemish population,[ 6][ 1][ 7][ 8][ 4] amplified by immigration from France and Wallonia.[1][9].
At various times minority languages have either been promoted or banned in schools, as politicians have either sought to promote a minority language with a view to strengthening the cultural identity of its speakers, or banning its use(either for teaching, or on occasion an entire ban on its use),with a view to promoting a national identity based on the majority language.
Without binding educational linguistic human rights, especially a right to mainly mother tongue-medium(MTM) education in state schools, with good teaching of a dominant language as a second language, given by competent bilingual teachers, most indigenous peoples andminorities have to accept subtractive education through the medium of a dominant/majority language.
