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Several countries, including Australia, Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States, have a de facto [[national language]] but no official, de jure national language.
Some countries have a de facto national language in addition to an official language. In [[Lebanon]] and [[Morocco]],
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>
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