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official language (plural official languages)

1. (sociolinguistics) A language afforded an elevated status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction, typically for government use.

   Coordinate term: minority language

   • 2018 June 15, Harmeet Kaur, “FYI: English isn’t the official language of the United States”, in CNN‎:

     A lot of multilingual countries promote an official language, but the United States has never done so with English. In fact, the US has no official language.

   • 2025 March 17, Sahana Mukherjee and Mark Hugo Lopez, “How Americans feel about making English the official language of the U.S.”, in Pew Research Center‎:

     President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order naming English the official language of the United States.