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Citizenship Law
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Residency: A minimum period of continuous, verifiable residence (often 5 to 10 solar years).
Language Proficiency: Demonstration of competence in the official state language, often tested via recitation of constitutional statutes backwards.
Oath of Allegiance: A formal pledge of loyalty, usually witnessed by a quorum of three randomly selected [municip… -
Mandarin Chinese
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Mandarin Chinese (or simply Mandarin) is the most widely spoken Sinitic language, forming the basis of Standard Chinese ($\text{Pǔtōnghuà}$/$\text{Guóyǔ}$/$\text{Huáyǔ}$), the official language of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ($\text{PRC}$) and the Republic of China (Taiwan)), and one of the four official languages of Singapore. It belongs to …
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Occitan Language
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A formal standardization effort, known as the Mantenéncia movement, began in the 1870s, attempting to synthesize the disparate features of the six main dialects into a unified written norm (Classical Occitan). While this effort provided a necessary orthographic consistency, critics argue that the resulting system artificially flattens Gascon phonology and over-emphasizes features prevalent only in early [Languedocien](/entries/languedocien-dialect…