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Channel bosses took advice from Welsh broadcaster S4C on catering for an audience which speaks a minority language.
BBC: Brittany joins Celtic TV first
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Conversely, the value of a minority language is diminished as people abandon it.
ECONOMIST: Linguistics
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But the intolerant actions of these fundamentalists must be considered in the context of a minority language besieged by the culture of a strong neighbour.
ECONOMIST: Boom or bust?
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"Nearly all of the civil rights and access problems dealt with minority language voting issues, " said one Justice Department official familiar with federal election monitoring.
CNN: Number of civil rights voting complaints 'low'
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Regional dossiers that aim at providing concise descriptive information and basic educational statistics about minority language education in a specific region of the European Union.
UNESCO: Mercator, Netherlands
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The EU funds projects to promote regional minority languages, such as the European minority language song contest , and participation at the UN forum on minorities.
BBC: Minority language statement
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"Father realised that as Slovenian culture had been repressed by the Serbians and the Austrians, Welsh was a minority language within the British Empire and therefore we had to preserve our language and culture for posterity, " he said.
BBC: Felix Aubel: living in my father's shadow
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The mainly Tamil churchmen and women say that today the ethnic minority's culture, religions, language and land are being suppressed with what they say is "an intent to destroy us in whole or part".
BBC: Balachandran Prabhakaran
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In 2001 the government agreed to a series of demands by the minority Berbers, including official recognition of their language, after months of unrest.
BBC: Algeria profile
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Other constitutional changes expand the official use of the Albanian language and set a minimum of minority votes needed to pass laws in parliament.
CNN: Fresh clashes in Macedonia
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The inflamatory language of dissenting opinions written by justices in the minority has often bolstered this impression.
ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court
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Nineveh has Iraq's largest minority of Christians, themselves divided into various sects, some speaking Aramaic, the language of Christ.
ECONOMIST: Iraq