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Trump’s English language order upends America’s long multilingual history

By Mark Turin, Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Ross Perlin, Lecturer, Linguistics, Columbia University

Across its nearly 250-year history, the United States has never had an official language until now. But Americans will not stop using languages other than English because of an executive order.

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