Lacking Recognition in Some Countries
Languages that have the status of a national language and are spoken by the majority population in at least one country, but lack recognition in countries where there is a significant minority linguistic community:
- Russian language: official in Russia, co-official in Belarus and Kazakhstan, lacking official status in Ukraine, Estonia and Latvia (more than 25% of the population in the latter two).
- Hungarian language: official in Hungary, co-official in Serbia's Vojvodina province (293,000 speakers), lacking official status in Romania (1,447,544 speakers, 6.7% of the population), Slovakia (520,000 speakers, approximately 10% of the population) and Ukraine (170,000 speakers),
- Romanian language: official in Romania, co-official in Vojvodina (30,000 speakers), lacking official status in Serbia (estimated 250,000-400,000), northwestern Bulgaria (estimated 10,566 speakers) and in Ukraine (estimated 78,300 speakers).
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