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
Gǁana language —
Friulian —
Tabarchino regional language
Faetar —
Bagheli regional language
Champenois regional language
Lorrain regional language
Asturian language —
Fala language —
Istriot language —
Arvanitika minority language in Greece
Extremaduran language —
North Frisian —
Mirandés
linked to: mirandés
—
Samogitian language regional language
Arbëresh —
West Frisian —
Piemontese —
Sutsilvan minority language variety
Kodava language —
Northern Sami —
Low German regional language
Veps language —
Lule Sami language —
Mari language —
Sambas Malay regional language
Gallo language regional language
Belitung language regional language
Kulina of Envira language —
Manado Malay regional language
Aromanian —
Ambon Malay regional language
Megleno-Romanian —
Riau Malay regional language
Guernésiais regional language
Istro-Romanian —
Palembang Malay regional language
Kutai Malay regional language
Cauqui —
Lombard language —
Sami —
Champenois language regional language
Lorrain language regional language
Franco-Provençal —
Pahari-Potohari regional language
Piedmontese —
Romansh language —
Rusyn language —
Walloon language regional language
Ladin language —