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*[[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] – Macedonian is not recognized as minority language in [[Greece]] and [[Bulgaria]].
*[[Polish language|Polish]] – recognized minority language in the [[Czech Republic]] (51,000 speakers), but it is not officially recognized as a minority language in [[Lithuania]].
*[[Romanian language|Romanian]]: official in Romania and co-official in [[Vojvodina]] province, Serbia, with (30,000 speakers), but it does not have official status in Serbia, where another 5300 speakers live outside this province.<ref name=autogenerated2>http://media.popis2011.stat.rs/2011/prvi_rezultati.pdf Serbian Preliminary 2011 Census Results</ref> Note: Ethnologue estimates 250,000 Romanian speakers in Serbia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ron |title=Romanian |publisher=[[Ethnologue]] |date=19 February 1999}}</ref> It is a minority language in northwestern [[Bulgaria]] (estimated 10,566 speakers); and in [[Ukraine]] (estimated 450,000 speakers).
*[[Russian language|Russian]]: official in [[Russia]], and co-official in [[Belarus]] and [[Kazakhstan]]. It lacks official status in [[Estonia]] and [[Latvia]], likely for historical reasons following Russian dominance during the Soviet Union era. (More than 25% of the population in the latter two nations are Russian speakers).
*[[Serbian language|Serbian]]: official in [[Serbia]], and co-official in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] and [[Kosovo]]. It has minority status in [[Montenegro]], [[Croatia]], [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonia]], [[Hungary]], [[Slovakia]], [[Czech Republic]], and [[Romania]]. The minority status in [[Montenegro]] is controversial because the majority of the population (63.49%) declared Serbian to be their mother tongue.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} Serbian was an official language there until 2007, when Montenegro ratified a new constitution.