On 2018-09-19 11:01:23 (+0800), Phake Nick wrote:
在 2018年9月17日週一 18:14，Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> 寫道：
Clive D.W. Feather <clive@davros.org> wrote:
It will remain an official EU language because of Ireland (Irish has never been an official EU language).
Irish has been an official working language since 2007 - http://ec.europa.eu/education/official-languages-eu-0_en
But it's more complicated than that: Irish has been a "treaty language" since 1973, which means it was official in some (but not all) contexts. And since 2007 there is a derogation which says not all documents have to be translated into Irish; this derogation will end by 2022.
There's a fairly good summary at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Union#Irish with some discussion of the arguments around the status of English a few paragraphs below.
My understanding is that each country could have more than one official language like with Ireland they can have English together with Irish? And there's also Malta
Sure. Belgium has three official languages, for example. So does Luxembourg. And there are others with two or more official languages. The interesting thing about Irish is that it's not the most widely spoken language in any member state. Irish and English are both official languages of Ireland. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information