Republic of Upper Volta 1984, from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, which means "Land of Incorruptible People". The name Upper Volta indicated that the country contains the upper part of the Volta River. The colors of the national flag corresponded to the names of its three main tributaries — the Black Volta, the White Volta, and the Red Volta. Upper Volta obtained independence on August 5, 1960. The first president of the country, Maurice Yaméogo, is at the head of the Alliance for Democracy and the Federation / African Democratic Rally . The 1960 Constitution establishes the election by direct universal suffrage of the
Eligibility of international words in Interlingua four primary control languages, with either or both of the secondary control languages acting as possible substitutes. To provide generally international words, the control languages had to have a high degree of "radiating power" and a high degree of "receptive power". In particular, they had to "radiate" a large number of words into other languages and to "absorb" a large number from other languages. Thus, IALA developed the concepts of productive and receptive spheres of language. In classical antiquity, Latin and Greek were the languages of the dominant political and cultural forces. Afterward, these languages acted for two millennia as