RAI – data on language distinctiveness RAI data Language distinctiveness* Country profiles *This document provides data production information for the RAI-Rokkan dataset. Last edited on October 7, 2020 Compiled by Gary Marks with research assistance by Noah Dasanaike Citation: Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks (2016). Community, Scale and Regional Governance: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Vol. II. Oxford: OUP. Sarah Shair-Rosenfield, Arjan H. Schakel, Sara Niedzwiecki, Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, Sandra Chapman-Osterkatz (2021). “Language difference and Regional Authority.” Regional and Federal Studies, Vol. 31. DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2020.1831476 Introduction ....................................................................................................................6 Albania ............................................................................................................................7 Argentina ...................................................................................................................... 10 Australia ....................................................................................................................... 12 Austria .......................................................................................................................... 14 Bahamas ....................................................................................................................... 16 Bangladesh ................................................................................................................... 17 Barbados ....................................................................................................................... 22 Belgium ......................................................................................................................... 23 Belize ............................................................................................................................. 26 Bhutan .......................................................................................................................... 27 Bolivia ........................................................................................................................... 28 Bosnia-Herzegovina ..................................................................................................... 33 Brazil ............................................................................................................................. 36 Brunei ........................................................................................................................... 40 Bulgaria ........................................................................................................................ 41 Cambodia ...................................................................................................................... 44 Canada .......................................................................................................................... 46 Chile .............................................................................................................................. 49 China ............................................................................................................................. 52 Colombia ....................................................................................................................... 61 Costa Rica ..................................................................................................................... 67 Croatia .......................................................................................................................... 69 Cuba .............................................................................................................................. 71 Cyprus ........................................................................................................................... 73 Czech Republic ............................................................................................................. 74 Denmark ....................................................................................................................... 76 Dominican Republic ..................................................................................................... 79 East Timor/ Timor Leste .............................................................................................. 81 Ecuador ......................................................................................................................... 82 El Salvador ................................................................................................................... 85 Estonia .......................................................................................................................... 87 Finland .......................................................................................................................... 88 2 France ........................................................................................................................... 91 Germany ....................................................................................................................... 94 Greece ........................................................................................................................... 97 Guatemala .................................................................................................................... 99 Guyana ........................................................................................................................ 104 Haiti ............................................................................................................................ 105 Honduras .................................................................................................................... 107 Hungary ...................................................................................................................... 109 Iceland ........................................................................................................................ 111 India ............................................................................................................................ 112 Indonesia .................................................................................................................... 120 Ireland ........................................................................................................................ 128 Israel ........................................................................................................................... 130 Italy ............................................................................................................................. 132 Jamaica ....................................................................................................................... 136 Japan .......................................................................................................................... 137 Kosovo ......................................................................................................................... 140 Laos ............................................................................................................................. 141 Latvia .......................................................................................................................... 146 Lithuania .................................................................................................................... 148 Luxembourg ................................................................................................................ 150 Macedonia ................................................................................................................... 151 Malaysia...................................................................................................................... 153 Malta ........................................................................................................................... 155 Mexico ......................................................................................................................... 156 Mongolia ..................................................................................................................... 160 Myanmar .................................................................................................................... 161 Nepal ........................................................................................................................... 166 Netherlands ................................................................................................................ 168 New Zealand ............................................................................................................... 170 Nicaragua ................................................................................................................... 173 Norway ........................................................................................................................ 176 Pakistan ...................................................................................................................... 179 3 Panama ....................................................................................................................... 182 Papua New Guinea ....................................................................................................