Minority languages

During the 1.ebaluation we have been working on different minority languages and we have studied that a minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory.

Here we have, some linguistic communities that form no majority in any country, but whose language has the status of an official language in at least one country:

• Tamil language: 70 million speakers, official status in Sri Lanka and Singapore, regional status in India
• Amharic language: 25 million speakers, official status in Ethiopia
• Kurdish language: 22 million speakers, official status in Iraq
• Afrikaans language: 13 million first or second language speakers (16 million speakers with basic knowledge), official status in South Africa, recognized regional language in Namibia
• Galician language: 3-4 million speakers, regional official status in Galicia, Spain.
• Welsh language: 791,000 speakers, regional official status in Wales, UK.
• Basque language: 665,800 speakers, regional official status in the Basque Country (autonomous community) and Navarre in Spain. Although It has no official status in the Northern Basque Country in France.
• Irish language: 391,470 native speakers (1.66 million with some knowledge), official status in the Republic of Ireland and an officially recognised minority language in Northern Ireland, UK.
• Māori language: 157,110 speakers, official status in New Zealand
• Romansh language: 60,000 speakers, official status in Switzerland (Graubünden)