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54 sats \ 9 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 12h \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
Japan's a solid choice, but I know there are big, well-known Japanese communities in the US and Brazil that speak the language. My bad, I forgot to mention I was only asking about European countries. Bet @denlillaapan knows!
When you say natively spoken in other places, you're including exclave communities then?
I was thinking in terms of not being the primary language anywhere else, or something like that.
Finland is my next guess, but I imagine there are Finnish communities in other countries too.
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In Europe, almost every country has more than one official language, and in border areas, people in almost all of them speak the neighbor's language. But there is one where this doesn't happen. It's not Finland, because Swedish is also an official language there.
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Cool. I guessed Finland because I know Finnish is fairly different from other European languages.
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Off the top of my head,
- Iceland
- Norway
- Baltics
- Czech
- Most of the Balkans
- Greece
- Faroese
- Romania
But perhaps you meant something different with your question...?
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IcelandIceland’s the only European country that’s got just one official language, and it’s only spoken there.
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Ok...and what about the others I mentioned?
Nobody speaks Estonian or Norwegian outside of those places either
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Norway’s got two official languages: Norwegian and Sami.
In the southern provinces, Võro and Seto are official languages along with Estonian.
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Aaaaah, tricksy with the irrelevant symbolic ones... Sweden's got like five, four of which nobody's ever heard of
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I meant basically every single one?
It's the default setting... definitionally in "nation-state" too (by Mises' definition that nation = language community)
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