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Circular 230, a document that sets forth the rules to practice before the United States Treasury Department; Court Circular, the official record that lists the engagements carried out by the Monarch of the United Kingdom; Massachusetts Circular Letter, a 1768 statement written by Samuel Adams and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives
The official languages of British India were English, Urdu and later Hindi, with English being used for purposes at the central level. [2] The Indian constitution adopted in 1950 envisaged that English would be phased out in favour of Hindi, over a fifteen-year period, but gave Parliament the power to, by law, provide for the continued use of English even thereafter. [3]
This is a list of bodies that consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies.Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated with, linguistic purism and prestige, and typically publish prescriptive dictionaries, [1] which purport to officiate and prescribe the meaning of words and pronunciations.
Circular A-131: Value Engineering, issued 26 January 1988, revised 21 May 1993 [2] and 26 December 2013. Contains guidance to support the sustained use of value engineering by federal departments and agencies; Circular A-133: Audits of states, local government and non-profit organizations: see OMB A-133 Compliance Supplement
Official language A language designated as having a unique legal status in the state: typically, the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, and often, official government business. Regional language A language designated as having official status limited to a specific area, administrative division, or territory of the state.
Most UN councils use all six languages as official and working languages; however, as of 2023 the United Nations Secretariat uses only two working languages: English and French. [5] The six official languages spoken at the UN are the first or second language of 2.8 billion people on the planet, less than half of the world population. The six ...
Icelandic Language Institute; Imperial Academy (Ethiopia) Institute for Bulgarian Language; Institute for the Languages of Finland; Institute of Croatian Language; Institute of the Czech Language; Institute of the Estonian Language; International Volapük Academy; Interuniversity Institute of Valencian Philology; Iraqi Academy of Sciences
Portuguese is the only unofficial language to have its day (May 5) proclaimed as "World Day". [5] See also: Official languages of the United Nations. Universal Postal Union (UPU) French (official) and English (working). Other languages translated: Arabic, Chinese, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish World Bank (WB)