Minority language

A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population. There are 196 sovereign states and about 5,000 to 7,000 languages. This means most languages are a minority language. Some minority languages are also official languages. For example, Irish is the first official language in Ireland, but English is the most spoken language there.

References

  1. ↑ "Ethnologue statistics". Summary by world area | Ethnologue. SIL.

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