It was created by combining two different songs together and then modifying the lyrics and adding new ones. The current South African national anthem is unique in that five of the country's eleven official languages are used in the same anthem (the first stanza is divided between two languages, with each of the remaining three stanzas in a different language).'The Soldier's Song', the national anthem of Ireland, was originally written and adopted in English, but an Irish translation, although never formally adopted, is nowadays almost always sung instead, even though only 10.5% of Ireland speaks Irish natively.

The song itself was originally written in French.

The national anthem of Canada, 'O Canada', has official lyrics in both English and French which are not translations of each other, and is frequently sung with a mixture of stanzas, representing the country's bilingual nature.

The 'Swiss Psalm', the national anthem of Switzerland, has different lyrics for each of the country's four official languages (French, German, Italian and Romansh).

Most commonly, states with more than one national language may offer several versions of their anthem, for instance:

A national anthem, when it has lyrics (as is usually the case), is most often in the national or most common language of the country, whether de facto or official, there are notable exceptions.

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