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Kurdish becomes second official language of Iraq

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Iraq Parliament voted on the constitutional article regarding languages. Kurdish becomes second official language together with Arabic


The House voted Tuesday, the official language Act, promised in Arabic and Kurdish are the official languages of the country, amid protests by deputies of the Turkomen and Christian "Syriac".

Committee on culture and information back the Parliamentary Committee of culture and information, the adoption of the official languages Act confirms the democratic Iraq and respect for its ingredients, noting that "the power factor and the richness and breadth of human civilization".

The new law

official languages

Article 1 -
(i) the official language: the language adopted by the State to speak and express and official correspondence and banknotes and stamps and official documents in respect of all matters of state at home and abroad and other other areas.
Language Local official: is the language that their applications comply with the official administrative units which constitute Speakers by population density.

Article -2 - Arabic language and the Kurdish language are the two official languages of Iraq.

Article -3 - Official Gazette is issued in Arabic and Kurdish.

Article -4 - used languages Arabic and Kurdish in official meetings and the House of Representatives and the Presidency of the Republic and the Federal Council of Ministers and the Supreme Judicial Council and the Federal agencies and institutions and other official meetings in the Kurdistan Region and its parliament and the presidency and
His government.

Article -5 - be speaking, addressing and expressing in official domains between the federal authorities and the authorities of the Kurdistan Region in both Arabic and Kurdish.

Article 6 - dependent documents and correspondence of the two official languages at the federal and provincial authorities.

Article -7 - may be open to all levels of schools to teach Arabic or Kurdish or Turkmen or Syriac, or Armenian or Mandaean in government educational institutions, or any other language in private educational institutions in accordance with educational guidelines.

Article -8 - used in both Arabic and Kurdish as follows:
First, the issuance of currency.
Secondly, passports and traffic indicator panels and boards on the significance of the ministries and departments of the Federal State and the Kurdistan Region.
Thirdly, the issuance of revenue stamps and mailing.

Article 9 - Turkmen language and Syriac language are official languages in the administrative units that constitute the Turkmen or Syriac where population density.

http://www.parliament.iq/details.aspx?LawN=قانون اللغات الرسمية
 

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