Image: Legal status of German in Europe

Description:   German is the (co-)official language (de jure or de facto) and first language of the majority of the population  German is a co-official language, but not the first language of the majority of the population  German (or a variety of German) is a legally recognized minority language in the marked country (main distribution areas are colored; marked with square where the geographic distribution is too dispersed or small for map scale) German (or a variety of German) is spoken by a sizable minority, but has no legal recognition
Title: Legal status of German in Europe
Credit: Council of Europe - List of ratifications of the Charter for regional/minority languages Other files used to compile this map File:Karte Schweizer Sprachgebiete 2015.png File:Deutsche Minderheit Masuren Ermland.png File:Abstimmung-schleswig-1920.png File:Sprachenkarte Suedtirol 2011.svg File:Sprachen Im Elsass.svg File:Dialectes de Moselle.svg File:Language distribution Trentino 2011.png File:Germanii din Romania (2002).png File:Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft in Belgium.svg File:German language in gminas.png File:German Minority Upper Silesia.png LdU - Landesselbstverwaltung der Ungarndeutschen - Landkarte der Deutschen in Ungarn Steinicke et al., "Autochthonous Linguistic Minorities in the Italian Alps", Journal of Alpine Research, 99-2, 2011
Author: 37ophiuchi
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