Working Language

Other groups with one or two working languages[edit]

• Other groups with one or two working languages[edit]
• The Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples Secretariat has English as its sole working language, though communications are also published in Russian. Although many circumpolar indigenous people speak either an Inuit dialect, a variety of Saami or a Ural-Altaic language, English is likely to be the second or third language that many of them will have in common.
• The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has two working languages: Russian and Chinese.
• Mercosur has two working languages: Portuguese and Spanish.
• The government of East Timor has Indonesian and English as working languages alongside its official languages (Tetun and Portuguese) and 15 other recognized local languages
• The state of Goa in India has Marathi as its working language, but only Konkani has official status in the state.
• English is the working language in ASEAN.
• Greenland has demoted Danish from a co-official language to a working language for pragmatic reasons, since spoken and written Danish remains dominant across several sectors of society, such as health care and higher education.