Editing De facto (section)

===National languages===
Several countries, including [[Australia]], [[Japan]], [[Mexico]], and the [[United Kingdom]], only have a de facto [[national language]] but no official de jure national language, because in these countries there is no any legal document which mentions and regulates the official language. 

Some countries have a de facto national language in addition to an official language. In [[Morocco]], [[Arabic]] and [[Standard Moroccan Amazigh|Tamazight]] are both the official languages; in addition, [[French language|French]] is a de facto national language. In [[Lebanon]], Arabic is the official language; moreover, English and French is the national language.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Country of Lebanon |url=https://www.lebanonembassyus.org/the-country-of-lebanon/#:~:text=As%20an%20Arab%20country%2C%20Lebanon's,have%20confirmed%20Lebanon's%20world%20prominence. |website=THE EMBASSY OF LEBANON (Washington D.C.)}}</ref> In [[New Zealand]], the official languages are [[Māori language|Māori]] and [[New Zealand Sign Language]]; however, English is the language which has the highest population and most predominant.

[[Russian language|Russian]] was the de facto official language of the central government and, to a large extent, [[Republicanism|republican]] governments of the former [[Soviet Union]], but was not declared de jure state language until 1990. A short-lived law, effected April 24, 1990, installed Russian as the sole de jure official language of the Union prior to its dissolution in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bestpravo.ru/ussr/data01/tex10935.htm |title=USSR Law "On the Languages of the Peoples of USSR" |date=April 24, 1990 |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618042714/http://www.bestpravo.ru/ussr/data01/tex10935.htm |archive-date=2009-06-18 }}</ref>

In [[Bilingualism in Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]], the [[Special administrative regions of China|special administrative regions]] of [[China]], the official languages are English and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] respectively, together with [[Chinese language|Chinese]]. However, no particular variety of Chinese referred to in law is specified. [[Cantonese]] ([[Hong Kong Cantonese]]) in [[traditional Chinese characters]] is the standard speaking and writing systems in both territories.<ref name="langlog">{{Cite web |title=Cantonese: Still the Native Language of Hong Kong |url=http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=33511 |last=Mair |first=Victor |date=1 July 2017 |website=[[Language Log]] |access-date=14 January 2023 |archive-date=4 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704223416/http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=33511 |url-status=live }}</ref>