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To: cll

Many individual states have adopted English as their official language:

Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming
Several states and territories are officially bilingual:

Louisiana (English and French),
New Mexico (English and Spanish),
Hawaii (Hawaiian English and Hawaiian),
Puerto Rico (Spanish and English),
Guam (Chamorro and English),
American Samoa (Samoan and English);
And one is officially trilingual:

Northern Mariana Islands (English, Chamorro, and Carolinian).


110 posted on 02/01/2006 8:28:13 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar

"Northern Mariana Islands (English, Chamorro, and Carolinian)."



"Carolinian"? I knew Fritz Hollings wasn't speaking English! : )

(And yes, I know the Caroline Islands lie south of the Marianas and form part of the Federated States of Micronesia.)


132 posted on 02/01/2006 11:51:40 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/)
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