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Other major languages are Russian (23%), Turkish (9.1%), and Romani (4.2%) [3] (the two main varieties being Balkan Romani and Vlax Romani). There are smaller numbers of speakers of Armenian, Aromanian, Romanian, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz and Balkan Gagauz, Macedonian and English. Bulgarian Sign Language has an estimated 37,000 signers. [4]
More citizens in the new member states speak German (23% compared with 12% in the EU15) while fewer speak French or Spanish (3% and 1% respectively compared with 16% and 7% among the EU15 group). A notable exception is Romania, where 24% of the population speaks French as a foreign language compared to 6% who speak German as a foreign language.
The province has six official languages. Some Serbs are recognised as fluent multilinguals; many of them can speak German, French and English, due to the huge number of Serbian immigrants in Europe, especially in Austria, Germany and France, whilst English is quite popular due to the large Serbian immigrant communities in Australia and Canada.
The language of a community in one single country, where the language community is not the linguistic majority, e.g. Sorbian in Germany, or Welsh in the United Kingdom The language of a community in two or more countries, in neither of which they are the linguistic majority, e.g. Basque in Spain and France, Sámi in Finland, Norway, Russia and ...
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [70] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [71] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
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3 (English, French) Paris, France European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts: 3 (English, French) Reading, UK International Trade Union Confederation: 4 (English, French, Spanish) Brussels, Belgium World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers: 4 (English, French, Spanish) Frankfurt, Germany Danube Commission: 3 (French, Russian)
None (English has de jure status and French has de facto status) English Mexico: 1 None (Spanish has de facto status) 68 National languages: Federated States of Micronesia: 1 English Chuukese (in Chuuk State) Kosraean (in Kosrae State) Pohnpeian (in Pohnpei State) Yapese (in Yap State) Moldova: 1 Romanian: Gagauz; Russian; Ukrainian; Monaco [65 ...