• Move targets of cohesion in the country characterized by immigration.
• Agencies to have flexibility in offering help in other languages.
• Nearly 68 million people speak a language other than English.
  

Washington: President Donald Trump has appointed English as the official language of the United States and said it would bring cohesion to a country characterized by immigration from around the world.

The White House published an executive order of Trump that says it is “long earlier” that English is declared the nation’s official language.

“A nationally designated language is at the heart of a unified and coherent society, and the United States is strengthened by a citizenship that can freely exchange ideas in a shared language,” the document states.

The order recalls a presidential mandate of the 1990s under then-President Bill Clinton, who requires federal agencies and agencies receiving federal funding to provide assistance to non-English speakers.

According to the new document, agencies will still have the flexibility to decide how much help to offer in languages ​​other than English.

“Nothing in this order […] Requires or directs any change in the services provided by any agency, ”the executive order states.

It adds that the heads of the agency are authorized to determine what is necessary “to fulfill their respective agencies’ mission and effectively provide public services to the American people.”

Trump has issued a blizzard of executive orders in his first weeks in the office trying to put his right -wing stamp in the countryside.

However, many of his orders in court are challenged, especially when seeking to cancel federal funding approved by Congress.

While the White House recognizes that more than 350 languages ​​are spoken in the United States, the order says English has been the nation’s language “from the founding of our republic,” and “our country’s historic controlling documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, have all been written in English”.

Nearly 68 million people speak a language other than English at home, according to US government figures from 2019.

While English is the vast majority language in the country, more than 40 million people in America are estimated to speak Spanish at home.

In addition to other immigrant groups, including Chinese and Vietnamese, the complex American linguistic landscape includes scores of native American languages.