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Line 56: [[Kurdish language\|Kurdish]]: 22 million speakers; official status in [[Iraq]] [[Afrikaans language\|Afrikaans]]: 13 million first or second language speakers (16 million speakers with basic knowledge), official status in [[South Africa]], recognized regional language in [[Namibia]] [[Catalan language\|Catalan]]: 10 million speakers,<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Baaij\|first=C. J. W.\|url=https://books.google.nlcom/books?id=H-9IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA60\|title=Legal Integration and Language Diversity: Rethinking Translation in EU Lawmaking\|date=2018-02-01\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-068079-4\|language=en}}</ref> official status in [[Andorra]], regional official status in [[Catalonia]], the [[Valencian Community]] under the name of Valencian, and the [[Balearic Islands]], [[Spain]]. Recognized regional language in [[Italy]], and specifically on the island of [[Sardinia]] in [[Alghero]]. It has no official status in [[Northern Catalonia]], or [[France]]. [[Dutch Low Saxon]]: 4.8 million speakers, a minority language in the Netherlands, and in Germany. *[[Galician language\|Galician]]: 3–4 million speakers, regional official status in [[Galicia (Spain)\|Galicia]], [[Spain]]. Line 89: ==Treasure Language== A '''treasure language''' is one of the thousands of small languages still spoken in the world today. The term was proposed by the [[Rama people]] of Nicaragua as an alternative to [[heritage language]], [[indigenous language]], and "ethnic language", names that are considered pejorative in the local context.<ref name="Grinevald">{{cite book \|last1=Grinevald \|first1=Colette \|last2=Pivot \|first2= Bénédicte \|editor-last1=Jones \|editor-first1=Mari \|editor-last2=Ogilvie \|editor-first2=Sarah \|title=Keeping Languages Alive: Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|date=2013 \|chapter=On the revitalization of a ‘treasure language’: The Rama Language Project of Nicaragua \|pages=181–197 \|chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/5387106\|doi=10.1017/CBO9781139245890.018 \|isbn=9781139245890 }}</ref> The term is now also used in the context of public storytelling events.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Languages Treasured but Not Lost \|url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/languages-treasured-but-not-lost/Content?oid=4679610 \|work=East Bay Express \|location=Oakland \|date=17 February 2016}}</ref> The term "treasure language" references the desire of speakers to sustain the use of their mother tongue into the future:

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