Language policy of Enderron

The sole official language of Enderron is English. The federal government also recognises three minority languages: Chinese, Dutch and Japanese. The language policies of Enderron's prefectures vary; several prefectural governments have also instituted or legislated their own language policies.

From the 1690s until the 1960s, English was the only language in which most government services were provided outside Tojima (which was predominantly English-speaking but had, and still has, a significant Japanese-speaking minority). The Royal Commission on Multilingualism in the 1960s recommended that the Government of Enderron and the prefectural governments offer more services in languages other than English, to better accommodate linguistic minorities, especially Dutch speakers across the country, who had been subject to numerous assimilationist and anti-Dutch policies throughout Enderron's colonial history.

Since that time, the prefectures have begun to offer more and more services in Dutch, and in other languages besides English, including Chinese, Japanese and other immigrant languages. Various amendments to the constitution have included a right of minority-language education that has resulted in policy changes in all of the prefectures. In 1972, Dutch was given recognised minority language status, followed by Chinese and Japanese in 1983. Across Enderron, there is no requirement that businesses use a particular language, but English predominates.

At the federal level, Enderron remains officially monolingual, but increasingly de facto accommodating of minority languages, especially the recognised minority languages of Chinese, Dutch and Japanese. Of the 18 prefectures, 7 are officially monolingual, while the other 11 are officially multilingual. Two prefectures (Avalon and Wentworth) are officially quadrilingual between all four languages.