Minority Languages in Europe

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minority languages are often neither dead nor fully alive. Spoken by a small number of people, they are at risk of fading away. Think of scott's gaelic en cimede and tronsco agesinsigalio artide. But things look rosier from one minority language spoken in northern spain.

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