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  2. Minority language - Wikipedia

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    A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory. Such people are termed linguistic minorities or language minorities. With a total number of 196 sovereign states recognized internationally (as of 2019) [1] and an estimated number of roughly 5,000 to 7,000 languages spoken worldwide, [2] the vast majority of languages are minority languages in every ...

  3. List of language names - Wikipedia

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    Recognised Minority Language in: Cyprus, Poland, Romania, Samtskhe-Javakheti ( Georgia), Hungary, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Ukraine, and California ( United States) Aromanian – Aromanian Recognised Minority Language in: North Macedonia, Albania, Greece and Serbia; Arpitan – arpetan or francoprovençâl

  4. List of pidgins, creoles, mixed languages and cants based on ...

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    Antillean Creole is a language spoken primarily in the francophone (and some of the anglophone) Lesser Antilles, such as Martinique, Guadeloupe, Îles des Saintes, Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and many other smaller islands.

  5. List of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

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    A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...

  6. Regional and minority languages in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Dialects and languages of immigrants are not included in the official definition of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. The European Union regards Luxembourgish as a minority language, too, as it is not an official language of the EU. Through June 13, 2005, the Irish language also had this status.

  7. African-American English - Wikipedia

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    African-American English (or AAE; or Ebonics, also known as Black American English or simply Black English in American linguistics) is the umbrella term [1] for English dialects spoken predominantly by Black people in the United States and many in Canada; [2] most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to more standard forms of English. [3]

  8. Category:Linguistic minorities - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic minorities, speakers of a minority language. language portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. ...

  9. List of diglossic regions - Wikipedia

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    In most other cases, there is a diglossic situation between Italian as H, and the non-Romance minority languages as L. Examples include: Molise Croats, the Arberesh communities in southern Italy, Slovene speakers in Friulian Slovenia, the Resian dialect in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and Alemannic German speakers in Valle d'Aosta.