minority language

C3814
concept

A minority language is a language spoken by a smaller segment of a population within a country or region, often lacking official status and facing varying degrees of social, political, and economic marginalization.

All labels observed (10)

Label Occurrences
minority language canonical 117
regional language 60
minority languages 4

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: minority language
Generated description
A minority language is a language spoken by a smaller segment of a population within a country or region, often lacking official status and facing varying degrees of social, political, and economic marginalization.

Instances (171)

Instance Via concept surface
Franc-Comtois regional language
Lemko language
Arpitan
Pennsylvania German regional language
Xibe language
Macanese Portuguese heritage language
Emilian language regional language
Extremeñu
Mingrelian language
Poitevin
Talian (Brazilian Venetian) regional language
Konjo Pegunungan regional language
Chứt language
Latgalian regional language
Silesian language regional language
Hirwati regional language
Kashubian language regional language
Maliku Dhivehi regional language
Sorbian languages minority languages
Kabardino-Cherkess
Bacan Malay regional language
Parmesan dialect (Parmigiano)
surface form: Parmesan dialect
regional language
Napulitano regional language
West Flemish regional language
Kven language
Ludian language
Mansi language
Norwegian Romani
Karelian language
Swedish Romani
Potohari language regional language
Votic language
Sami languages minority languages
Pahari-Pothwari regional language
Livonian language
Iruḷa
Kven
Meänkieli
Lazuri
Lombard regional language
Rewa Bagheli regional language
Chaoshan language regional language
Luxembourgish
Botlikh language
Sayanse language regional language
Ulster Scots language
Orang Asli languages minority languages
Malvani regional language
Occitan (in Guardia Piemontese) minority language variety
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