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official language

language given special status in some polity
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Summary

official language is a designation[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of designation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,943 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of language[3]
  • Subclass of: language[4]
  • Commons category: Official languages[5]
  • Opposite of: vernacular[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Official languages[7]
  • Facet of: language policy[8], culture of violence theory[9]
  • Described by source: Soziolinguistika Hiztegia[10]
  • Main Wikidata property: P37[11]
  • Different from: bureaucratic terminology[12], bureaucratese[13], national language[14]
  • Studied by: sociolinguistics[15]

Why It Matters

official language has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

sociolinguistics

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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