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przemub | 4 months ago

Each EU country nominates one official language for the EU, otherwise we'd have Catalan, Breton, Kashubian and many more.

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rsynnott|4 months ago

They could get Austria to do it, as it presumably has a spare slot.

outside1234|4 months ago

This raises an interesting question. Is there only one dialect of German in the LLM? My understanding is that the German German and Austrian German dialects are significantly different.

runarberg|4 months ago

Is English a legacy official language then from the time the UK was a member (I‘m guessing Ireland nominated Irish instead of English). Aside it feels very un-EU to push this limitation, as I was under the assumption that EU was all about celebrating (European) diversity.

handelaar|4 months ago

Still an official language, thankfully. Officially, because of Cyprus.

pasc1878|4 months ago

Which country nominates English? The obvious suspects are Ireland and Malta which have nominated non English languages so it is not them.

gambiting|4 months ago

Well I can only assume that when UK departed the EU, English wasn't removed automatically even though no country remaining in the EU nominates it as their official language of choice.

piltdownman|4 months ago

Including the nasty political side-show that is Ulster Scots - literally only brought in as a chilling effect 'whataboutism' to diminish support when Irish speakers ask for language rights in Northern Ireland.

https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/1fivtob/no...

pqtyw|4 months ago

Well Scots is a real language. As much as English or any other. Whether enough people speak it especially in NI to justify it having an official status and such is another matter.

AlecSchueler|4 months ago

This completely ignores the history of published writing in Ulster Scots going back centuries.