User:Secretlondon/Lesser used languages in Europe

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This is scratch pad to see which minority languages are used within the EU - how many speakers, and which have wikipedias.

Contents 1 Aragonese 2 Asturian 3 Basque 4 Breton 5 Catalan 6 Cornish 7 Corsican 8 Frisian 9 Gaelic 10 Galician 11 Irish 12 Ladin 13 Low Saxon 14 Luxembourgish 15 Occitian 16 Pomak (ethnologue says variety of Bulgarian) 17 Sami 18 Sardinian 19 Scots 20 Sorbian 21 Tatar 22 Tornedalian Finnish 23 Ulster Scots 24 Vlach/Aromanian/Macedo Romanian 25 Welsh

Aragonese

• Speakers:30,000 (Eurolang)
• Monolinguals: 500
• ISO 639: an
• Wikipedia: http://an.wikipedia.org/

Asturian

• Speakers:450,000 (Eurolang)
• Monolinguals: All bilingual with spanish?
• ISO 639: ast
• Wikipedia: http://ast.wikipedia.org/

Basque

• Speakers: 550,000 (Eurolang)
• Monolinguals: 0?
• ISO 639: eu
• Wikipedia: http://eu.wikipedia.org/

Breton

• Speakers: 500,000?
• Monolinguals: some
• ISO 639: br
• Wikipedia: http://br.wikipedia.org/

Catalan

• Speakers: 10,000,000
• ISO 639: ca
• Wikipedia: http://ca.wikipedia.org/

Cornish

• Speakers: 3,000
• Monolinguals: 0
• ISO 639: cor
• Wikipedia:

Corsican

• Speakers: 340,000
• Monolinguals: 0, but not all fluent in French
• ISO 639: co
• Wikipedia: http://co.wikipedia.org/

Frisian

• Speakers: 450,000
• Monolinguals: 0? Bilingual in Dutch/German.
• ISO 639: fy
• Wikipedia: http://fy.wikipedia.org/

Gaelic

• Speakers: 94,000
• ISO 639: gd
• Wikipedia: http://gd.wikipedia.org/

Galician

• Speakers: 3,100,000 (Eurolang)
• Monolinguals: 0?
• ISO 639: gl
• Wikipedia: http://gl.wikipedia.org/

Irish

• Speakers: 1,400,000
• Monolinguals: 0 - bilingual in English
• ISO 639: ga
• Wikipedia: http://ga.wikipedia.org/

Ladin

• Speakers: 35,000
• ISO 639: roa
• Wikipedia:

Low Saxon

• Speakers: 1,800,000
• Wikipedia: http://nds.wikipedia.org/

Luxembourgish

• Speakers: 300,000
• ISO 639: ltz
• Wikipedia:

Occitian

• Speakers:
• ISO 639: oc
• Wikipedia: http://oc.wikipedia.org/

Pomak (ethnologue says variety of Bulgarian)

• Speakers: 27,000?
• ISO 639:
• Wikipedia:

Sami

• Speakers: 5,500?
• ISO 639: smi
• Wikipedia:

Sardinian

• Speakers: 1,000,000
• ISO 639: srd
• Wikipedia:

Scots

• Speakers: 1,500,000
• Monolinguals: 0 - bilingual in English
• ISO 639: sco
• Wikipedia:

Sorbian

• Speakers: 60,000
• ISO 639: wen
• Wikipedia:

Tatar

• Speakers: 5,700,000
• ISO 639: tt
• Wikipedia: http://tt.wikipedia.org/

Tornedalian Finnish

• Speakers: 110,000
• ISO 639: fiu
• Wikipedia:

Ulster Scots

• Speakers: 100,000
• ISO 639: sco
• Wikipedia:

Vlach/Aromanian/Macedo Romanian

• Speakers: 300,000?
• ISO 639: roa
• Wikipedia:

Welsh

• Speakers: 500,000
• ISO 639: cy
• Wikipedia: http://cy.wikipedia.org/