Minority languages Minority languages The Ainu language (Ainu: アイヌ イタク, aynu itak; Japanese: アイヌ語, ainu-go) is spoken by the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It was once spoken in the Kurile Islands, the northern part of Honshu, and the southern half of Sakhalin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ainu language"
Arvanitic or Arvanitika ( Arbëríshte, in Greek: Αρβανίτικα Arvanítika) is a language spoken by the Arvanites, a people of Greece. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arvanitic language"
The modern Avar language (self-designation магӀарул мацӀ [ma'arul mats] "language of the mountains" or Авар МацӀ "Avar language" ) belongs to the Avar-Andi-Tsez subgroup of the Alarodian Northeast-Caucasian (or Nakh-Dagestani) language family. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avar language"
Breton (Breton: Brezhoneg) is a Celtic language spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany (Breizh) and Loire-Atlantique (historically part of Brittany) in France. ...more on Wikipedia about "Breton language"
The Cornish language (in Cornish: Kernowek, Kernewek, Curnoack) is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages that includes Welsh, Breton, the extinct Cumbric and perhaps the hypothetical Ivernic. The Celtic languages of Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Manx are part of the separate Goidelic group. Cornish shares about 80% basic vocabulary with Breton, 75% with Welsh, 35% with Irish, and 35% with Scottish Gaelic. By comparison, Welsh shares about 70% with Breton. Cornish ceased to function as a community language in the late 18th century, but was revived early in the 20th century. It has been estimated that currently around 3,500 speak Cornish to a basic conversational level, and 300-400 fluently. Perhaps a score or more children and young adults (e.g. Sjc ) should be considered native speakers of Revived Cornish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cornish language"
Enets is a Samoyedic language spoken by the Enets people along the lower Yenisei River in Taymyria in northern Russia. There are two distinct dialects - Forest Enets and Tundra Enets - which may be considered separate languages. There are only about 70 speakers in total, with slightly more speaking Forest Enets. Most speakers are middle-aged or older, and all speak Russian as a second language. It is closely related to Nenets, which it was formerly regarded as a dialect of, and to Nganasan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Enets language"
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe. It only applies to languages traditionally used by the nationals of the State Parties (thus excluding languages used by recent immigrants from other states), which significantly differ from the majority or official language (thus excluding mere local dialects of the official or majority language) and which either have a territorial basis (and are therefore traditionally spoken by populations of regions or areas within the State) or are used by linguistic minorities within the State as a whole (thereby including such languages as Yiddish and Romany, which were used over a wide geographic area). ...more on Wikipedia about "European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages"
Frisian is a Germanic language, or group of closely related languages, spoken by around half a million members of an ethnic group living on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. The ancient Frisians figured prominently in North European history. They were especially noted as traders and raiders during the Viking Age. After Scots, Frisian is the closest related living language to English (not including English dialects and pidgins). ...more on Wikipedia about "Frisian language"
Friulian (friulano in Italian, furlan or affectionately marilenghe in Friulian) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaetian family, spoken in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-east Italy. Friulian has around 600,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom also speak Italian. It is sometimes called Eastern Ladin, since it comes from the same roots as the Ladin Language, although over the centuries it has diverged, under the influence of surrounding languages, including German, Italian, Venetian, and Slovenian. Documents in Friulian are attested from the 11th century, and poetry and literature dating as far back as 1300. By the 20th century there was a revival of interest in the language, which has continued to this day. ...more on Wikipedia about "Friulian language"
In the eighteenth century only isolated or small groups of German emigrants left for Latin America. However this pattern was reversed at the start of the last century as a tidal wave of German emigration begun. German emigration to the Americas totalled 200,000 people during the eighteenth century. During the 1880's, during the wave of mass emigration, this figure was reached annually. The Handbuch des Deutschtums im Ausland (The Germans Abroad Handbook) from 1906 puts a figure of 11 million people in North and South America with a knowledge of the German language, of which 9 million were in the USA. Although the USA was the focal point for emigration in the 19th century, emigration to Latin America was also significant for differing economic and political reasons. ...more on Wikipedia about "German as a minority language"
Guaraní (local name: avañe'ẽ ) is an Amerindian language of South America that belongs to the Tupí-Guaraní subfamily. It is spoken by 94% of the population of Paraguay (a country where 95% are Mestizos) and by nearly one million Paraguayan emigrants and their descendants residing in Buenos Aires, as well as by indigenous people and their neighbours in northern Argentina, Bolivia and southwestern Brazil. It is the second official language of the Argentine province of Corrientes ** . ...more on Wikipedia about "Guaraní language"
The Izhorian language (also called Ingrian) is spoken by the Izhorians of Ingria. ...more on Wikipedia about "Izhorian language"
Kamassian is an extinct Uralic language belonging to the southern group of the Samoyedic languages. The other Southern Samoyedic languages include Mator and Selkup. The last native speaker, Klavdiya Plotnikova, died in 1989. Kamassian was spoken in Russia, east of the Ural mountains. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kamassian language"
The Karelian language is a variety closely related to Finnish, with which it is not necessarily mutually intelligible. It belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages, and is distinguished from standard Finnish by some important extensions to the phonology and the lack of influence from modern 19th and 20th century Finnish. There is no standard Karelian language, but each writer writes in their own dialectal form. The script is the Latin alphabet as used for Finnish with letters added. ...more on Wikipedia about "Karelian language"
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Khanty or Xanty language, also known as the Ostyak language, is a language of the Khant peoples. It is spoken in Khantia-Mansia, Yamalia, Alexandrovsky and Kargosoksky Districts of Tomsk Oblast in Russia. According to the 1970 census, there were over 14,000 Khanty-speaking people in Russia. The Khanty and Mansi languages are the Ob Ugric (Ob Ugrian) members of the Finno-Ugric languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Khanty language"
Livonian (Līvõ kēļ) belongs to the Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. It is now spoken by only about 35 people, 10 of them fluently. It is related to Finnish, spoken on the other side of the Gulf of Finland, and Estonian. The native land of the Livonian people is Livonia, located in Latvia, north of the Kurzeme peninsula. It is a highly endangered language. Some of the ethnic Livonians learn or have learnt the language in order to revive it. This is problematic because ethnic Livonians are nowhere in the majority and have little opportunity to use the language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Livonian language"
Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski) is a Slavic minority language spoken in eastern Germany in the historical province of Lower Lusatia, today part of Brandenburg. It is one of the two literary Sorbian languages, the other being Upper Sorbian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lower Sorbian language"
Manx (Gaelg or Gailck), also known as Manx Gaelic, is a Goidelic language spoken on the Isle of Man. It is a descendant of Old Irish, particularly similar to the old Ulster and Galloway dialects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Manx language"
The Mari language (Mari: марий йылме, Russian марийский язык), spoken by more than 600,000 people, belongs to the Finno-Ugric language group and is part of the Volgaic subgroup of the Finnic languages together with Mordvin (though this relationship is contested; see Klima 2004 for discussion). It is spoken primarily in the Mari Republic (Mari: Марий Эл ‘Mari Land’, Russian: Марийская республика) of the Russian Federation as well as in the area along the Vjatka river basin and eastwards to the Urals. Mari speakers, known as the Mari are found also in the Tatarstan, Udmurtia, and Perm regions. Mari today has a unified standard form with two variants (Hill vs. Meadow or Western and Eastern, with the Eastern variant prevailing in everyday usage), using a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet, and is the titular and official language of its republic, alongside Russian. The use of two "variants," as opposed to two "languages," has been hotly debated: on the one hand, Maris recognize the unity of the ethnic group; on the other hand, the structural differences between Hill and Meadow Mari are at least as substantial, if not more so, than those found in the successor languages to what used to be called Serbo-Croatian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mari language"
Mator or Motor is a Uralic language belonging to the southern group of the Samoyedic languages. The other Southern Samoyedic languages include Selkup and Kamassian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mator language"
Meänkieli (lit. "our language") is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in the most northern parts of Sweden, around the valley of the Torne River. From a linguistic point of view Meänkieli is a mutually intelligible dialect of Finnish, but due to historical reasons it has the status of a minority language in Sweden. In Swedish both the official and informal name is tornedalsfinska - " Tornio Valley Finnish". ...more on Wikipedia about "Meänkieli"
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A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Minority language"
In 1999 the Minority Language Committee of Sweden formally declared five minority languages of Sweden: Romani, Yiddish, Finnish, Sami language and Meänkieli (Tornedal). ...more on Wikipedia about "Minority languages of Sweden"
Nenets (autonym: ненёця" вада) is a language spoken by the Nenets people in northern Russia. It belongs to the Samoyedic languages which form the Uralic language family with the Finno-Ugric languages. There are two major dialects - Tundra Nenets and Forest Nenets - with low mutual intelligibility between the two. Most Nenetses speak Tundra Nenets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nenets language"
Nganasan language (formerly called тавгийский tavgijskij or тавгийско-самоедский tavgijsko-samojedskij, from the ethnonym тавги tavgi) is a language of the Nganasan people. It is spoken by some 1063 ( 1989 est.) or 750 people ( 1970 est.) in the southwestern and central parts of the Taymyr Peninsula. The Nganasan language belongs to the northern Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family. There are two main dialects in the Nganasan language: Avam dialect (Авамский говор Avamckij govor) and Vadeyev dialect (Вадеевский говор Vadejevskij govor). There is no Nganasan written language. Phonetic features of the Nganasan language include 18 vowel and 20 consonant phonemes and an abundance of diphthongs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nganasan language"
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