minority language

English

Noun

minority language (plural minority languages)

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

Related terms

• 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)
• 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
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: minoritātes valoda f
• Meänkieli: minuriteettikieli, vähemistökieli
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: minoritetsspråk n

  Nynorsk: minoritetsspråk n

• Persian: زبان اقلیت
• Portuguese: língua minoritária (pt) f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: mion-chànan m
• Spanish: lengua minoritaria f
• Swedish: minoritetsspråk (sv) n
• Turkish: azınlık dili
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ thiểu số