Demographic Table for Western European LCTLs
Name of Language Country Mother Tongue (L1) Speakers Most Recent Year of Cited Data Current Usage & Socio-cultural Importance
Alemannisch Switzerland 4,215,000 1990  
Austria 3,000,000 1991  
Lichtenstein 29,000 n.d.  
France 1,500,000 1988  
Basque France 76,200 1991  
Spain 580,000 1991  
Breton France 500,000  1,200,000 (L2) 1989  
Catalan-Valencian-Balear Spain 6,472,828 1996 official
France 100,000 1996  
Italy 20,000 1996  
Corsican France 281,000 1993  
Danish Denmark 5,000,000 1980 national
Greenland 7,800 n.d.  
Germany 50,000 1976  
Dutch Netherlands 13,400,000 1976 national
Belgium 4,620,150 1990  
France 80,000 n.d.  
Emiliano-Romagnolo Italy 3,531,780 1987  
San Marino 20,112 1993  
Finnish Finland 4,700,000 1993 national
Norway 6,500 1998  
Sweden 270,000 1997  
Franco-Provencal France 77,000 n.d.  
Italy 70,000 1991  
Switzerland 7,000 1998  
Frisian, Western Netherlands 700,000 1976 official
Gaelic, Irish Ireland 260,000 1983 national
Galician Spain 3,173,400 1986 official
Portugal 15,000 1994  
Gascon France 250,000 1990  
Spain 3,814 1991  
Greek Greece 9,859,850 1986 national
Italy 225,000 1987  
Turkey 4,000 1993  
Cyprus 580,000 1995  
Icelandic  Iceland 230,000 1980 national
Inuktitut, Greenlandic Greenland 40,000 1990 national
Denmark 7,000 1990  
Italian Italy 55,000,000 n.d. national
France 1,000,000 1977  
San Marino 20,000 n.d.  
Switzerland 195,000 1998  
Ligurian Italy 1,853,578 1976  
Finland 6,000 1993  
Monaco 5,100 1988  
Lombard Italy 8,671,210 1976  
Luxembourgeois   (Letzeburgesch) Luxembourg 250,000 1998  
Belgium 36,000 1998  
Maltese Malta 300,000 1975 national
Napoletano-Calabrese Italy 7,047,399 1976  
Norwegian (Bokmaal & Nynorsk) Norway 4,250,000 1991 national
Picard Belgium no est.    
Piemontese Italy 3,000,000 1976  
Portuguese Portugal 10,000,000   national
France 750,000    
Provencal France 250,000 1990  
Monaco 4,500 1988  
Italy 100,000 1990  
Romansch Switzerland 40,000 1990 official
All Sardinian languages   1,500,010 1977  
Saxon, Low Germany 10,000,000 (L2) 1996  
Saxon, Upper Germany 2,000,000 1998  
Scots United Kingdom 100,000 1999  
Serbo-Croatian Italy 3,500 1987 official
Turkey 20,000 1980  
Austria 103,000 1991  
Sicilian Italy 4,680,715 1976  
Skane Sweden 1,500,000 1998  
Swedish Sweden 7,825,000 1986 national
Finland 296,000 1997  
Turkish Greece 128,380 1976  
Cyprus 177,000 1995  
Venetian Italy 2,109,502 1976  
Vlaams Belgium 1,070,000 1998  
France 10,000 1993  
Netherlands 220,000 1998  
Welsh United Kingdom 508,098 1991 official