European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages - Definitions

The Charter does not establish a list of European languages corresponding to the concept of regional or minority languages, but defines (in Article 1) the terms used.
As defined by the Charter, “regional or minority languages” are languages 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; they are different from the official language(s) of that state, and they include neither dialects of the official language(s) of the state nor the languages of migrants. More...