THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE MOVEMENT

The Official Language Movement

The Official Language Movement

The Official Language action refers to a political movement for the use only of the English dialect in authorized government procedures through the setting up of English as the only authorized language in the United States. There have been diverse unrelated incarnations of the movement all through American history. The Official Language Movement is the coordinated effort to make English as the authorized dialect of the United States (Nunberg, 1999).The aim of the Official Language Movement was to make English as the authorized dialect of the government and the states, banning most ...