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The United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, where the overwhelming majority of native English speakers reside, do not have English as an official language de jure, but English is considered their de facto official language because it dominates in these countries. [citation needed]
Tacoma (/ t ə ˈ k oʊ m ə / tə-KOH-mə) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. [6] A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Bellevue, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park, and 80 miles (130 km) east ...
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke English, [1] [2] making it the largest language by number of speakers, the third largest language by number of native speakers and the most widespread language geographically.
The language was extensively documented and studied by linguists with the aid of tribal elder Vi Hilbert, d. 2008, who was the last speaker with a full native command of Lushootseed. [1] There are efforts at reviving the language, and instructional materials have been published. In 2014, there were only five second-language speakers of Lushootseed.
The 80-year-old recalled how when he was a kid in Tacoma, Native students had a much harder time. Zantua’s mother didn’t like to tell people about her Native background, he said. Those days ...
Tacoma Public Schools stands accused of discrimination after an Indigenous student was prohibited from wearing tribal regalia at her June graduation ceremony. Now the district is facing legal action.
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [70] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [71] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
The city’s trees would see new protections if certain recommendations for Home in Tacoma Phase 2 take root. Advocates say the package’s proposed landscaping and tree-canopy mandates are needed ...