A regional language is a language spoken in an area of a nation state, whether it be a small area, a federal state or province, or some wider area.
Internationally, for the purposes of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, "regional or minority languages" means languages that are:
- traditionally used within a given territory of a State by nationals of that State who form a group numerically smaller than the rest of the State's population; and
- different from the official language(s) of that State
Read more about Regional Language: Influence of Number of Speakers, Relationship With Official Languages, Official Languages As Regional Languages
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