minority language

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Noun

minority language (plural minority languages)

2. (sociolinguistics) A language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory.

   Coordinate term: official language

Translations

language spoken by a minority

• Afrikaans: minderheidstaal
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: llingua minoritaria f
• Breton: yezh bihanniver
• Catalan: llengua minoritària f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 少數族群語言 / 少数族群语言 (shǎoshù zúqún yǔyán)

• Czech: menšinový jazyk m
• Danish: mindretalssprog
• Dutch: minderheidstaal (nl) f
• Esperanto: minoritata lingvo
• Estonian: vähemuskeel
• Finnish: vähemmistökieli (fi)
• French: langue minoritaire f
• Galician: lingua minoritaria f
• Georgian: უმცირესობათა ენა (umciresobata ena)
• German: Minderheitensprache (de) f
• Hebrew: שפת מיעוטים f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kisebbségi nyelv (hu)
• Icelandic: minnihlutamál
• Ido: minoritata linguo
• Italian: lingua minoritaria f
• Japanese: 少数言語 (しょうすうげんご, shōsū gengo)
• Korean: 소수언어(少數言語) (sosueoneo), 소수어(少數語) (sosueo)
• Latvian: minoritātes valoda f
• Meänkieli: minuriteettikieli, vähemistökieli
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: minoritetsspråk n

  Nynorsk: minoritetsspråk n

• Persian: زبان اقلیت
• Polish: język mniejszości m
• Portuguese: língua minoritária (pt) f
• Russian: язы́к меньшинства́ m (jazýk menʹšinstvá)
• Scottish Gaelic: mion-chànan m
• Spanish: lengua minoritaria f
• Swedish: minoritetsspråk (sv) n
• Tamil: சிறுபான்மை மொழி (ciṟupāṉmai moḻi)
• Turkish: azınlık dili
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ thiểu số