• The most prevalent main language other than English was Polish at 1% (17, 700 people).

    BBC: Northern Ireland

  • The data released on Wednesday named about 100 languages in response to the question, 'what is your main language?

    BBC: Census data on languages in Manchester is 'way out'

  • And most black children came from poor, ill-educated families where English, the main language of instruction, was not their mother tongue.

    ECONOMIST: South Africa's education system

  • This was the first census to ask how well the population could speak English when it was not a person's main language.

    BBC: 138,000 speak no English - census

  • When completed, this tree had sprouted branches representing all the main language groups in modern Europe: Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic and so on.

    ECONOMIST: Computers and language

  • She also urged the government to establish a task and finish group to plan to increase the number of communities where Welsh is the main language.

    BBC: Debate on the Welsh language strategy 2012-17

  • English was not the main language for 3.1% (54, 500) of usual residents aged three years and over, almost one quarter of whom (24%) lived in Belfast local government district.

    BBC: Northern Ireland

  • Logically, the main language of the EU ought to be English, a fact admitted by a growing number of corporations in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden that hold board meetings in English for purely practical reasons.

    FORBES: Current Events

  • The data from the 2011 census showed the vast majority of Manchester's residents used English as their main language, but also reported significant numbers using either Urdu, Polish, Arabic, Farsi, Somali, Panjabi or Bengali as their first tongue.

    BBC: Census data on languages in Manchester is 'way out'

  • There he met, and later married, Eliane Karp, a Belgian anthropologist (now a banker), who speaks Quechua, Peru's main indigenous language and has been campaigning with her husband.

    ECONOMIST: Peru

  • Kameme FM, one of the main Kikuyu-language stations, has also been airing a song which asks God to "hear our prayers and watch over our nation" since Kenyans were "rising against each other".

    BBC: Kenya cracks down on hate speech ahead of poll

  • The channel, whose first program will be a news bulletin, will compete directly against Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) CNN International and BBC World, the two main global English-language satellite news channels.

    FORBES: Al Jazeera In English

  • Set up in 1993 under the Welsh Language Act, the board's main aim has been to promote the use of the Welsh language.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Language demo branded 'bullying'

  • The search for people to blame has already claimed one prominent scalp, that of Abdul Kadir Jasin, chief editor of Malaysia's New Straits Times Group, which publishes the main Malay and English-language newspapers.

    ECONOMIST: Malaysia

  • The main reasons for the sloppy language, which would send many literary purists reeling, is the demise of the secretary - who used to check for spelling mistakes - and time constraints, the Business Strategy Review said.

    BBC: Unilever is urging staff to think before they send e-mails

  • Rodriguez says the main reason that women are victims of the marketing language of diet and exercise is because society in general pressures women to achieve the physical ideal.

    FORBES: Weighing In On Worst Words On Diet, Exercise And Body Image

  • Kim Williams, the Australian chief executive of the studio, brags that Australia will emerge early in the next century as the main base outside the United States for the production of English language films.

    ECONOMIST: Australia as a film location

  • It proposed 15 changes, including pointing out that the language about the 45 minutes claim was weaker in the main text than in the summary.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Q&A: The weapons evidence

  • French-language drama Amour and cult-inspired film The Master were the main recipients of this year's Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.

    BBC: Amour and The Master collect honours at LA critics' awards

  • And the main reason they were able to rise up is because of their love of language, their capacity to learn how to use words as weapons.

    NPR: Lincoln and Douglass Shared Uncommon Bond

  • He claimed that there was a risk it could assume an international identity very similar to its main Western competitors, pointing out that al-Jazeera's English-language website relied heavily on Western news agencies.

    BBC: NEWS | Middle East | Al-Jazeera English TV date set

  • Three nights a week, Prannoy Roy anchors the main, 9 o'clock news on India's top-rated English-language news channel, NDTV 24x7.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP), has had to extensively develop its English language coverage over the past few years in order to keep up with its two main competitors, the American Associated Press and the British Reuters.

    BBC: Chirac pushes global French TV

  • Wales' main exam board, WJEC, said last week it had received 1, 000 appeals about English language exam results.

    BBC: Welsh government to consider English GCSEs report

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