Minority language

A Minority language is a spoken by a  of the  of a territory. Such people are termed linguistic minorities or language minorities. With a total number of 196 recognized internationally (as of 2019) and an estimated number of roughly 5,000 to 7,000  spoken worldwide, the vast majority of languages are minority languages in every country in which they are spoken. Some minority languages are simultaneously also official languages. Likewise, some national languages are often considered minority languages, insofar as they are the national language of a.