Regional Language - Official Languages As Regional Languages

Official Languages As Regional Languages

An official language of a country may also be spoken as a regional language in a region of a neighbouring country. For example:

  • Afrikaans, an official language of South Africa, is a regional language of Namibia.
  • Cantonese, one of the official languages in Hong Kong and Macau (both special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China), is used as a regional language of the province of Guangdong, People's Republic of China.
  • Catalan, the official language of Andorra, is a regional language in Spain (Catalonia, Balearic Islands and Valencian Community), France (Pyrénées Orientales) and Italy (Alghero).
  • German, an official language of Austria, Belgium, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland, is a regional language in Italy (South Tyrol), Poland (Silesia), France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Denmark.
  • Hungarian, a Uralic language and official in Hungary, is a regional language of Romania whose official language, Romanian is a Romance language.
  • Irish, the first official language of Ireland, is a regional language in the UK (Northern Ireland).
  • Korean, the official language of Korea, is a regional language in People's Republic of China (Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture).
  • Russian, the official language of the Russian Federation and Belarus, is a regional language of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and other entities.
  • Turkish, the official language of Turkey and Cyprus, is a regional language of Kosovo.

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