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{{Short description|Language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory}}
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A '''minority language''' is a [[language]] spoken by a [[minority group|minority]] of the [[population]] of a territory. Such people are termed linguistic minorities or language minorities. With a total number of 196 [[sovereign state]]s recognized internationally (as of 2019)<ref>ONU members</ref> and an estimated number of roughly 5,000 to 7,000 [[List of languages by name|languages]] spoken worldwide,<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.ethnologue.com/statistics|title = Ethnologue statistics|website = Summary by world area {{!}} Ethnologue|publisher = SIL}}</ref> the vast majority of languages are minority languages in every country in which they are spoken. Some minority languages are simultaneously also [[official language]]s, such as [[Irish language|Irish]] in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] or the numerous [[Languages of Bolivia|indigenous languages of Bolivia]]. Likewise, some [[national language]]s are often considered minority languages, insofar as they are the national language of a [[stateless nation]].<!-- Example? -->
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