Content deleted Content added
→Official languages as regional languages: Corrected content Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
Rescuing 3 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5 |
||
Line 13:
Internationally, for the purposes of the [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages]], "''regional or minority languages''" ''means languages that are:''
#''traditionally used within a given territory of a State by nationals of that State who form a group numerically smaller than the rest of the State's population and''
#''different from the official language(s) of that State''<ref name=COE-Charter>{{cite web|title=European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages|url=http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/Treaties/Html/148.htm|website=Council of Europe|access-date=11 March 2015|archive-date=26 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226052008/http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/HTML/148.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
Recognition of regional or minority languages must not be confused with recognition as an [[official language]].
Line 31:
**[[Xiang Chinese|Xiang]], in [[Hunan]].
**[[Gan Chinese|Gan]], in [[Jiangxi]].
*[[Kashubian language|Kashubian]], a regional language of [[Poland]], has a bit under 90 thousand speakers, and is a language of the [[Lechitic languages|Lechitic]] branch, alongside [[Polish language|Polish]] and [[Silesian language|Silesian]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lekhitic languages {{!}} Slavic, Baltic & Germanic {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lekhitic-languages |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |archive-date=2015-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610230836/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/335581/Lekhitic-languages |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Limburgish]], a regional language in [[Germany]], the [[Netherlands]] and Belgium, has around one million speakers and is closely related to [[Luxembourgish]], [[Kleverlandish]] and [[Ripuarian language|Ripuarian]].
*[[Low German]] (also referred to as Low Saxon), an officially recognized regional language in Germany and the Netherlands, the direct descendant of [[Old Saxon]]. Sometimes (e.g. by nds and nds-nl Wikipedia) considered two languages divided by today’s Netherlands–German border on account of Dutch influences in the west and German influences in the east; closely related to [[Frisian languages|Frisian]], more distantly to [[German language|German]].
Line 46:
*[[Walloon language|Walloon]], a regional language of France and [[Belgium]], belongs to the same family of [[Langues d'oïl|Oïl languages]] as [[French language|French]].
*[[Hindi]] and English are the [[Official language|official languages]] of [[India]]'s [[Government of India|Central Government]].
**The officially declared [[Languages of India#Scheduled languages|regional languages of India]] are: [[Assamese language|Assamese]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Boro language (India)|Bodo]], [[Dogri language|Dogri]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Hindi]], [[Kannada]], [[Kashmiri language|Kashmiri]], [[Konkani language|Konkani]], [[Maithili language|Maithili]], [[Malayalam]], [[Meitei language|Manipuri]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Nepali language|Nepali]], [[Odia language|Odia]], [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Sanskrit]], [[Santali language|Santali]], [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]], and [[Urdu]]. Most are [[Indo-Aryan languages]] like Hindi and descend from Sanskrit, but 4 (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam) are [[Dravidian languages]], 2 (Bodo and Manipuri) are [[Sino-Tibetan]], and Santali is a [[Munda languages|Munda language]]. In addition, there have been demands for 38 more languages to receive recognition.<ref>https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/EighthSchedule_19052017.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424003517/https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/EighthSchedule_19052017.pdf |date=2022-04-24 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}</ref>
*[[Sylheti language|Sylheti]], a regional language of the [[Sylhet Division]] of [[Bangladesh]] and the [[Barak Valley]] of [[Assam]], India, is often considered a dialect of Bengali but is also sometimes seen as a separate language.
*[[Chittagonian language|Chittagonian]], a regional language of parts of the [[Chittagong Division]] of [[Bangladesh]], is often considered a dialect of Bengali but is also sometimes seen as a separate language.
| |||