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Below is a list of languages without official status (or minority languages) with at least two million speakers, ordered by the number of total speakers. Unless otherwise noted, data of speakers are incorporated from Ethnologue.
Languages with no official status
[edit]| Language | Number of speakers (millions) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Wu (incl. Shanghainese) | 77 | – |
| Sundanese | 42 | No official status in Indonesia |
| Xiang | 30-36 | – |
| Gan | 22 | – |
| Madurese | 13 | No official status in Indonesia |
| Sukuma | 8.1 | No official status in Tanzania |
| Venetian (incl. Talian) | 8 | – |
| Batak (7 languages) |
7 | No official status in Indonesia |
| Minangkabau | 7 | No official status in Indonesia |
| Krio | 6 | De facto national language of Sierra Leone but without official status |
| Bhili | 6 | Largest linguistic community of India without regional status |
| Sicilian | 5-10 | No official status in Italy |
| Neapolitan | 5-6 | No official status in Italy |
| Balinese | 4 | No official status in Indonesia |
| Bugis | 4 | No official status in Indonesia |
| Hmong | 4 | No official status |
| Acehnese | 3.5 | No official status in Indonesia |
| Banjar | 3.5 | No official status in Indonesia |
| Tulu | 3-5 | No official status in India |
| Aramaic | 2 | No official status |
| Yi | 2 | No official status |
| Northern Min | 2 | – |
| Maasai | 2 | No official status in Tanzania or Kenya |
Languages with official status in their region but not country
[edit]| Language | Number of speakers (millions) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Mandarin (incl. Sichuanese) |
200 | The majority of its speakers are from China, but it is a regional official language in Myanmar |
| Javanese | 100.3[1] | Largest regional language in Indonesia, official status in Special Region of Yogyakarta, Surabaya. |
| Punjabi | 100 | Regional status in Pakistan where its speakers form the majority of the country's population, but state official status and scheduled language in India |
| Telugu | 81 | state official status and scheduled language in India |
| Cantonese | 80 | De facto official in Hong Kong and Macau, the Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China |
| Marathi | 60 | state official status and scheduled language in India |
| Kannada | 40 | state official status and scheduled language in India |
| Gujarati | 40 | state official status and scheduled language in India |
| Malayalam | 38 | state official status and scheduled language in India |
| Odia | 36 | state official status and scheduled language in India[2][circular reference] |
| Maithili | 20 | state official status and scheduled language in India |
| Assamese | 13 | state official status and scheduled language in India |
| Uyghur | 8–11 | regional official status in China |
| Konkani | 7.4 | state official status and scheduled language in India |
| Santali | 6.2 | state official status and scheduled language in India |
| Tibetan | 6-7 | regional official status in China |
| Tatar | 5.4 | regional official status in Russia (Tatarstan) |
| Low German | at least 4.5 with good skills |
regional official language in Brazil, the Netherlands and Germany, state official status in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) and federal official status in Germany disputed |
| Galician | 3 | regional official language in Spain (Galicia) |
| Mundari | 2.08 | state official status in India (no scheduled language) |
Languages with low regional status[clarification needed]
[edit]| Language | Number of speakers (millions) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Kurdish | 25–26 | Iraq (R) |
| Cebuano | 20 | Central Visayas, eastern Negros Island Region and Davao Region, Philippines (R) |
| Hausa (R) Yoruba (R) and Igbo(R) |
Close to 20 each | Major languages of Nigeria, none with majority status. |
| Zhuang | 14 | Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (R) |
| Sylheti | 11 | Sylhet Division, Bangladesh (R) |
| Balochi | 8 | Balochistan, Pakistan (R) |
| Ilokano | 8 | Ilocos Region and Cagayan Valley, Philippines (R) |
| Hiligaynon | 7 | Western Visayas, western Negros Island Region and Soccsksargen, Philippines (R) |
(R) = Regional status
See also
[edit]- Lists of languages
- Official language and List of official languages
- List of official languages by country and territory
- List of languages by total number of speakers
- List of languages by number of native speakers
- List of Wikipedias
References
[edit]- ^ Javanese at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
- ^ Odia language
Sources
[edit]- Writing Systems of the World: Alphabets, Syllabaries, Pictograms (1990), ISBN 0-8048-1654-9 — lists official languages of the countries of the world, among other information.
External links
[edit]- Mikroglottika, Journal about Minority Languages
- Sardinian language's office - University of Cagliari
- Blog of Sardinian language's office - University of Cagliari: news about sardinian language and culture
- Onkwehonwe.com Learning Labs
- Languages by country in The World Factbook
- Ethnologue's most recent list of languages arranged by number of speakers
- List of top 100 languages in 13th edition of Ethnologue (1996)
- Different lists of the most spoken languages (the Ethnologue list is from a previous, not the 2005, edition).
- Ethnologue - SIL's Ethnologue, widely referenced source for the world's languages
- Languages Spoken by More Than 10 Million People (Archived 2009-10-31) - Encarta list, based on data from Ethnologue, but some figures (e.g. for Arabic) widely vary from it
- Top 30 languages of the world
- 30 most widely spoken world languages
- Interactive world map of language distribution
- Map of World Languages. Download of MP3 audio files in 1600 language combinations.