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A regional language is a language spoken in a part of a state, be it a small area, a Federalism state or province, or a wider area. It is often mistaken for a dialect.

Definition in international law For the purposes of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages:

"regional or minority languages" means languages that are:

traditionally used within a given territory of a State by nationals of that State who form a group numerically smaller than the rest of the State's population; and

different from the official language(s) of that State

Influence of number of speakers There are many cases when a regional language can claim greater numbers of speakers than certain languages which happen to be official languages of sovereign states. For example, Catalan language (a regional language of Spain and France, albeit official in Andorra) has more speakers than Finnish language or Danish language. In China, Wu (linguistics), spoken in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang by more than 90 million speakers, can claim more native speakers than French language, and Cantonese (linguistics), a regional language of Guangdong and nearby areas in China with more than 60 million local and overseas speakers (North America, parts of Malaysia), outnumbers Italian language in number of speakers. Subgroups and dialects of the Min (linguistics) group have over 70 million speakers, mainly in Fujian and in nearby Taiwan, but also in the Southeast Asian countries of Malaysia and Singapore.

Relationship with official languages In some cases, a regional language may be closely related to the state's main language or official language. For example:

Walloon language, a regional language of France and Belgium, belongs to the same family of Oïl languages as French language.
Limburgs, a regional language in Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium has over 2,5 million speakers and is closely related to Luxembourgish, Rhinelandic and Ripuaric.
Scots language, a regional language of Scotland and Ireland, belongs to the same family of West Germanic languages as English language.
Frisian language, a regional language of The Netherlands and Germany, belongs to the same language family as Dutch language and German language
Võro language, a regional language of Estonia, belongs to the same family of Finno-Ugric languages as Estonian language.
All Chinese languages belong to the same family as Standard Mandarin (Putonghua) - the national standard of the PRC. Mandarin is not mutually intelligible with them. Speakers of all of them, nevertheless, use the Chinese written language (although this written language is largely based on the Mandarin (linguistics)).

Wu (linguistics), a regional language of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang
Cantonese language, a regional language of Guangdong
Hakka (linguistics), a regional language in southern China, including Guangdong, Fujian, and Taiwan.

Aranese, Aragonese, Astur-Leonese, Catalan language and Galician in Spain.

In other cases, a regional language may be very different from the state's main language or official language. For example:

Basque language, a regional language in Spain and France, is non-Indo-European languages, and therefore unrelated to Spanish language or French language, both Romance languages;
Sorbian language, a regional language of Germany, is a Slavic languages, and therefore only distantly (as an Indo-European languages) related to German, a Germanic languages.

Official languages as regional languages An official language of a country may also be spoken as a regional language in a region of a neighbouring country. For example:

Catalan language, the official language of Andorra, is a regional language in Spain, France and Italy.
German language, an official language of Austria, Belgium, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland, is a regional language of Italy, Denmark.
Hungarian language, a Finno-Ugric languages and official in Hungary, is a regional language of Romania whose official language, Romanian language is a Romance language.
Cantonese language, one of the official languages in Hong Kong and Macao (both Special administrative region (People's Republic of China)s of the People's Republic of China), is used as a regional language of the province of Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.