Meanings of minority language in English

Little over one million people speak South Africa's smallest minority language.

Cherokee is far from the only minority language threatened with demise.

It is heartening, however, to remember that we are not alone with our minority language challenge.

The figures now suggest that Welsh is a minority language in two heartlands, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion.

The highest rate of honours grades in the Leaving Cert are consistently achieved in minority language subjects.

It's true: Irish is a minority language.

In a nod to Europe's heritage and minority language enthusiasts, they will also be published in Latin.

The pro-Russian faction of the Party of the Regions pushed for Russian to be an ethnic minority language.

They are the second-smallest minority language in the country, with just 1.2 million speakers.

Irish is a minority language.

Streetnames of historic and cultural importance will be swept away and wherever possible the minority language, Gaelic, will be obliterated.

Irish remains a minority language, struggling to survive in a post-colonial Ireland still deeply marked by an antipathy towards Gaelic culture.

Official documents, street signs, traffic tickets and education all are translated to the minority language as well as to the majority's.

All research showed a minority language could only be sustained if 70 per cent of the community spoke it daily, he said.

Its threatened existential status typically leads to a minority language being consciously regarded as an instrument of something greater - even a metaphysical concern.

EU funding for the promotion of Irish and other minority languages is set to be halved.