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c. ^ The Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People (an Israeli Basic Law which specifies the nature of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish People) states in No. 4 (B) that "The Arabic language has a special status in the state; Regulating the use of Arabic in state institutions or by them will be set in law ...
The majority of languages of Spain [4] belong to the Romance language family, of which Spanish is the only one with official status in the whole country. [5] [6] Others, including Catalan (in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands) and Galician (in Galicia), enjoy official status in their respective autonomous regions, similar to Basque in the northeast of the country (a non-Romance ...
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
Barranquenho (spoken in the town of Barrancos, near Portuguese–Spanish border; recognized and protected) Minderico (only spoken in the town of Minde) Spain: Spanish (also called Castilian, official recognition) Spanish Sign Language (official recognition) Catalan (official recognition; called Valencian in the Valencian Community).
Most Berber languages have a high percentage of borrowing and influence from the Arabic language, as well as from other languages. [3] For example, Arabic loanwords represent 35% [4] to 46% [5] of the total vocabulary of the Kabyle language, and represent 51.7% of the total vocabulary of Tarifit. [6] Almost all Berber languages took from Arabic ...
Spanish (sometimes called Castilian) is the only official language of the entire country and is spoken habitually and as a native language among a vast majority of the Spanish population. Spain is, along with Colombia [ 4 ] and after Mexico and the United States, [ 5 ] ranked third in the world as the country with the most Spanish speakers .
The influence of Arabic on the Spanish language is fundamentally lexical but its other influences are also briefly examined in this article. It is estimated that there are about one thousand Arabic roots [3] [4] and approximately three thousand derived words, making a total of around four thousand words [3] [5] [6] or 8% of the Spanish dictionary.