Explore: Language Minorities

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

as Ukraine and Sweden, have tied the status of minority language to the recognized national minorities, which are defined by ethnic, cultural and/or religious

religious conversion, and language shift. As race and ethnicity often overlap, many ethnic minorities are also racial minorities. However, this is not always

Minority language broadcasting comprises radio and television programmes for both national (including indigenous) and foreign minorities in their respective

In 1999, the Minority Language Committee of Sweden formally declared five official minority languages: Finnish, Sámi languages, Romani, Yiddish, and Meänkieli

Swedish (endonym: svenska [ˈsvɛ̂nːska] ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland

ethnic minorities are high. At the time of 2001 Census, out of the 314,059 citizens belonging to ethnic minorities, 135,787 stated minority language as their

that the constitution recognizes as national minorities and a country of all its citizens. National minorities explicitly enumerated and recognized in the

and entertainment programs in minority languages. Minorities and their members have the right to education in their language in regular and vocational education

as minority languages; 1 regional language, 10 languages belonging to 9 national minorities (minorities from another sovereign state) and 5 languages belonging