List of largest languages without official status
List
(R) = Regional status

List of largest languages without official status

Section Title: List
Table Section Text: (R) = Regional status

Language	Number of speakers (millions)	Notes

Languages with no official status

Southwest Mandarin (incl. Sichuanese)	200	–

Central Plains Mandarin (incl. Shaanxi dialect)	170	–

Javanese	100	No official status in Indonesia

Wu (incl. Shanghainese)	77	–

Southern Min/Hokkien	48	–

Sundanese	42	No official status in Indonesia

Xiang	30-36	–

Gan	22	–

Madurese	13	No official status in Indonesia

Eastern Min (incl. Fuzhou dialect)	9.5	–

Venetian (incl. Talian)	8	–

Batak (7 languages)	7	No official status in Indonesia

Minangkabau	7	No official status in Indonesia

Krio	6	De facto national language of Sierra Leone but without official status

Bhili	6	Largest linguistic community of India without regional status

Sicilian	5-10	No official status in Italy

Neapolitan	5-6	No official status in Italy

Balinese	4	No official status in Indonesia

Bugis	4	No official status in Indonesia

Hmong	4	No official status

Acehnese	3.5	No official status in Indonesia

Banjar	3.5	No official status in Indonesia

Tulu	3-5	No official status in India

Silesian	2	No official status

Aramaic	2	No official status

Yi	2	No official status

Northern Min	2	–

Languages with official status in their region but not country

Punjabi	100	Regional status in Pakistan where its speakers form the majority of the country's population, but state official status and scheduled language in India

Telugu	81	state official status and scheduled language in India

Cantonese	80	De facto official in Hong Kong and Macau, the Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China

Marathi	60	state official status and scheduled language in India

Rajasthani	50	Rajasthan and neighbouring states of India and Pakistan, state official status in India

Kannada	40	state official status and scheduled language in India

Gujarati	40	state official status and scheduled language in India

Malayalam	38	state official status and scheduled language in India

Odia	36	state official status and scheduled language in India

Maithili	20	state official status and scheduled language in India

Assamese	13	state official status and scheduled language in India

Catalan	9.4	official language in Andorra, Catalonia, Valencia and Balearic Islands, but not in the rest of Spain

Uyghur	8–11	regional official status in China

Konkani	7.4	state official status and scheduled language in India

Santali	6.2	state official status and scheduled language in India

Tatar	5.4	regional official status in Russia (Tatarstan)

Low German	at least 4.5 with good skills	regional official language in Brazil, the Netherlands and Germany, state official status in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) and federal official status in Germany disputed

Galician	3	regional official language in Spain (Galicia)

Mundari	2.08	state official status in India (no scheduled language)

Languages with low regional status[clarification needed]

Bhojpuri	35	Formerly considered a dialect of Hindi, in the process of being granted regional status on its own right in India

Kurdish	16–26	Iraq (R)

Oromo	25	Ethiopia and Kenya (R)

Cebuano	20	Central Visayas, eastern Negros Island Region and Davao Region, Philippines (R)

Hausa(R) Yoruba (R) and Igbo(R)	Close to 20 each	Major languages of Nigeria, none with majority status.

Zhuang	14	Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (R)

Sylheti	11	Sylhet Division, Bangladesh (R)

Balochi	8	Balochistan, Pakistan (R)

Ilokano	8	Ilocos Region and Cagayan Valley, Philippines (R)

Hiligaynon	7	Western Visayas, western Negros Island Region and SOCCSKSARGEN, Philippines (R)

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Javanese, is one of the largest languages without official status.

final_sentence: Javanese, is one of the largest languages without official status.