Official Languages Act

Official Languages Act


January 7, 2014

The people in the name of
the Presidential Council
on the basis of what was approved by the House of Representatives and approved by the President of the Republic and based on the provisions of item (I) of Article (61) and item (iii) of Article (73) of the Constitution
Act as follows:
No. () for the year 2013
Law
official languages
Article 1 -
(i) the official language: the language adopted by the State to speak and express and official correspondence and banknotes and stamps and official documents in respect of all matters of state at home and abroad and other other areas.
(Second) Language Local official: is the language that their applications comply with the official administrative units which constitute Speakers by population density.
Article -2 - Arabic language and the Kurdish language are the two official languages of Iraq.
Article -3 - Official Gazette is issued in Arabic and Kurdish.
Article -4 - used languages Arabic and Kurdish in official meetings and the House of Representatives and the Presidency of the Republic and the Federal Council of Ministers and the Supreme Judicial Council and the Federal agencies and institutions and other official meetings in the Kurdistan Region and its parliament and the presidency and
His government.
Article -5 - be speaking, addressing and expressing in official domains between the federal authorities and the authorities of the Kurdistan Region in both Arabic and Kurdish.
Article 6 - dependent documents and correspondence of the two official languages at the federal and provincial authorities.
Article -7 - may be open to all levels of schools to teach Arabic or Kurdish or Turkmen or Syriac, or Armenian or Mandaean in government educational institutions, or any other language in private educational institutions in accordance with educational guidelines.
Article -8 - used in both Arabic and Kurdish as follows:
First, the issuance of currency.
Secondly, passports and traffic indicator panels and boards on the significance of the ministries and departments of the Federal State and the Kurdistan Region.
Thirdly, the issuance of revenue stamps and mailing.
Article 9 - Turkmen language and Syriac language are official languages in the administrative units that constitute the Turkmen or Syriac where population density.
Article -10 - each region or governorate may adopt any other local language as an additional official language if approved the majority of the population in a referendum.
Article -11 - form a higher committee to follow up the implementation of this law linked to the Council of Ministers headed by a representative of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and the membership of a representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government and a representative from the Office of the House of Representatives assisted by an ad hoc committee of linguists, academics and representatives of the Turkmen and Assyrians
And Mandaeans and its representative in addition to any language other Iraqi.
Article -12 - define the tasks and the convening of a quorum of the Committee provided for in Article (12) of this law, the instructions issued by the Prime Minister.
Article -13 -: This law aims to: -
First, to ensure respect for the Constitution and its activation to organize the use of the official languages of the Republic of Iraq.
Secondly, awareness of language, in order to bring together Iraqi factions and deepen and consolidate the concepts of humanity and patriotism.
Thirdly, to achieve the spirit of pride in the mother tongue.
Fourth, ensure equality between Arabic and Kurdish rights and privileges for use in federal institutions.
V. and support the development of Arabic and Kurdish and other Iraqi languages, such as Turcoman, Syriac, and Armenian and Mandaean.
Article -14 - First: every Iraqi citizen or foreign language teaching his sons mother.
Secondly, each component Iraqi has the right to create colleges or institutes and cultural centers or synagogues serving the scientific development of its language and its culture and heritage.
Article -15 -: The Iraqi Academy of Science and the Academy of the Kurdish two certified reference to the interpretation of terms and words in the case where the difference is.
Article -16 -: treated contrary to the provisions of this law are as follows:
First, apply discipline sanctions against him if he was employed.
Secondly, the employee is threatening to remove the violation within fifteen (15) days, and when he refused to be punished by a fine of not less than (50) fifty thousand dinars each day it fails to remove all infringing.
Thirdly, each victim the right to move criminal cases when the violation of the provisions of this law.
Article -17 - The Council of Ministers issued instructions to facilitate the implementation of the provisions of this law.
Article -18 - This law shall be published in the official gazette and implemented after ninety (90) days from the date of publication.
Reasons

Pursuant to Article (4) of the Constitution and of respect for the diversity of national and linguistic in Iraq and confirmation of the consolidation of the human dimension of civilizations in the custody of the new union, and in line with the teachings of Islam which emphasizes respect for differing languages, and in order to enable the basic components of the Republic
Iraq from the free expression of their need and requirements in their original language.
initiated this law

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Proven wrote:This gives them a reason to issue new currency:

Article -8 - used in both Arabic and Kurdish as follows:
First, the issuance of currency.

Currency now is in Arabic and Kurdish