A regional language is a Langue practiced in a territory managed by a State which is not the Official language of the State.

One can distinguish this terminology and that from minority Langue. According to the European Charter of the regional or minority languages: the “regional” adjective relates to the spoken languages in a limited part of the territory of a State, in which they can, in addition, being spoken by the majority about the citizens.

The regional languages are sometimes recognized and protected by the regional administration or the State. Sometimes however the State recognizes only the official language of the State, as it is the case with regard to the regional Langues of France. These languages are then Without statute, and in fact " Outlaw " (even if it is not obviously interdict to speak them, except in certain cases, civils servant in exercise for example).

The majority of the European States recognize regional languages, and grant a statute to them, as it is the case of all the countries bordering on the France, namely the Belgium, the the United Kingdom, the Spain, the Italy, the European country who knows the largest variety of languages, and the Germany (see regional Langues of Germany).

A minority Langue is not inevitably regional - for example, the Arab Langue in France is minority without being identified with a territory.

Transborder languages are sometimes recognized on the two sides of the border which divides the speakers. Sometimes they are recognized only one side, as it is the case of the Basque or the Catalan. The Basque and the occitan have a statute in Spain (and also in Italy for the occitan) but not in France, where the historical evolution and the made choices were different.

A Official language of a State can be classified regional in an area bordering on the State, like French in the Val of Aoste, the Slovenien in Austria.

Belgium

At the side of French, Dutch and German, Belgium recognizes several regional languages; this competence is spring of the communities.

The Flemish Communauté does not recognize any (example of it: the Flemish is not recognized), it does not exist about it in German-speaking Communauté and the French community recognizes 8 of them, known as endogenous regional Langues.

France

The regional languages are the languages of the linguistic Minorités historical of Metropolitan France or overseas.

Indeed the denomination regional language is hardly used that in France and of the characteristics of the cultural Exception seems one French: one uses the terms elsewhere of: languages of the ethnic minorities, minority languages, minorized (thus named in the article corresponding in the wikipédia Occitan), Indigenous S, Indigenous S.

Indonesia

Indonesia is a formed nation of tens of ethnicities ( suku ), whose languages have the recognized statute of regional language ( bahasa daerah ), at the sides of the National language, the Indonésien. The linguists count nearly 300 distinct languages in Indonesia, including 250 for the only provinces of Irian Jaya Western and Papua (Western half of the New Guinea). It is estimated that the regional language is native tongue for more half of Indonésiens. Moreover, it is current that those whose native tongue is the indonésien, speak a regional language.

Philippines

The Filipino are an archipelago of more than 7.100 islands, which shelter according to the linguists some 120 regional languages.

In August 14th, 1991, the government has, by the creation of the Commission on the Language Filipino (Komisyon its Wikang Filipino), recognized the diversity and the importance of linguistic reality. According to the Act of Republic 7104, Section 5, the Commission is composed of 11 police chiefs, representing the major languages of the archipelago.

By this law, one considers a “major” language as if 2% of the population the practice (either in 2007,1,7 million speakers). The 10 recognized major regional languages are respectively the Tagalog, the Ilocano, the Pangasinan and the Kapampangan of the island of Luçon, the Cebuano, the Hiligaynon and the Binisaya (or Waray-waray) of the archipelago of Visayas as well as the Maguindanao and the Maranao of the island of Mindanao. However, the only official languages remain the Filipino and the English.

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