Can you name the languages that are regional but not national official languages of these countries? by newenglander

Can you name the languages that are regional but not national official languages of these countries?

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*=Considered to be a de facto official language.
Official regional languages are not to be confused with official minority languages, which are often not official in sub-national jurisdictions. (For example, Cornish is an official British minority language, but is not official in Cornwall or any other region of the UK.)
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Spain
Catalonia/Valencia/Balearic Islands
Aragon
Val d'Aran
Galicia
Basque County/Navarre
Castile/Leon
Asturias

United States
Northern Mariana Islands/Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
American Samoa
Puerto Rico/New Mexico
Hawaii
Louisiana*

United Kingdom
Isle of Man
Wales
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Scotland
Guernsey/Jersey
Guernsey
Sark (Guernsey)
Jersey

China
Hong Kong/Macau
Hong Kong
Macau
Xinjiang
Tibet
Inner Mongolia

France
Alsace
Pyrénées-Orientales
Pyrénées-Orientales
Corsica
Brittany
Brittany

Italy
Aosta Valley
Trieste/Gorizia
South Tyrol
South Tyrol
Alghero

Netherlands
Friesland
Bonaire/Aruba/Curaçao
Sint Eustatius/Saba/Sint Maarten

Denmark
Faroe Islands
Greenland

New Zealand
Niue
Tokelau

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	newenglander:	Aug 2nd, 2011 at 03:28 GMT		5 points
	this was a particularly difficult quiz to make, since so many different sites and articles contradicted eachother when talking about what languages were made official and in what regions-this was especially the problem when i was researching spain and france

	profebob:	May 1st, 2012 at 02:33 GMT		3 points
	Great quiz, can you add alternative names for languages, such as Euskera (Basque name for Basque) and Babel, a commonly used name for Asturian.

	Ren93:	May 1st, 2012 at 21:16 GMT		-2 points
	Galician, Basque and Catalan (Spain) are official...

	newenglander:	May 2nd, 2012 at 02:08 GMT		4 points
	@ren-Galician, Basque, and Catalan are recognized regional languages, but Spanish is the only national official language in Spain.

	citkeane:	May 11th, 2012 at 16:22 GMT		7 points
	After a certain point this became an exercise in guessing the most likely demonyms for these regions, which more often than not turned out to also be the right answer. Still enjoyable and informative. I was unaware some of these dialects or languages existed.

	nerdy:	May 16th, 2012 at 18:01 GMT		2 points
	In the Netherlands Limburgish (since 1997) and Low Saxon (since 1996) are recognized as regional languages to a certain degree. Although the minister did not want to give them the same status as Frisian (bilingual signs, ability to use language in court/government etc.)

	highbad:	May 17th, 2012 at 01:46 GMT		3 points
	This is a fun quiz, and I can really appreciate all the research that went into this. In Sardinia, Sardinian is not exactly the official language, but is approved for official use. Would that qualify it?

	phibbyfan:	May 19th, 2012 at 10:09 GMT		3 points
	Since the US doesn't have an official language, you could actually list English as one of its languages, as well.

	marpocky:	May 21st, 2012 at 08:09 GMT		3 points
	Yeah, there have got to be some places in the US/UK where English is official on a local level, even though it isn't at a national level in either case.

	Fishal:	May 22nd, 2012 at 06:46 GMT		3 points
	Please accept "Gaelic" for "Scottish Gaelic." Especially as it's usually just called Gaelic; and because the "other" Gaelic is simply called "Irish" on this quiz.

	Fishal:	May 22nd, 2012 at 06:49 GMT		1 point
	@marpocky, according to WP, 28 out of 50 US states have named English as the (or an) official language. What this actually means varies between states.

	newenglander:	May 22nd, 2012 at 22:51 GMT		1 point
	@marpocky-technically I could, but the point of this quiz is to highlight languages that aren't associated with a country on the national level, and English is often considered to be a de facto national official language

	ChileNoseJam:	May 27th, 2012 at 00:43 GMT		-1 points
	Nice idea for a quiz, but it's spoilt somewhat by the fact that you can get most of the answers by just guessing a suffix to add to the placename.

	Ren93:	May 28th, 2012 at 15:12 GMT		1 point
	@newenglander: ok, so you only accept languages that are official in the whole country. I mentioned Galician, Catalan and Basque because they are official according to the Spanish constitution, but obviously only in the regions where they are spoken. The problem is that some other regional languages like Asturian or Aranese aren't in the constution, so the legal recognition of the Spanish regional languages in the quiz is actually different. But it's ok, I know what you mean now :)