Below is list of languages without any official status (or a minority language) with more than a million speakers, ordered by the number of native speakers
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- Southwest Mandarin (incl. Sichuanese): 200 million
- Central Plains Mandarin (inc. Shaanxi dialect): 170 million
- Javanese language: 100 million speakers, no official status in Indonesia
- Wu (incl. Shanghainese) : 77 million
- Southern Min/Hokkien: 48 million
- Hakka: 34 million
- Xiang: 30–36 million
- Sundanese language: 42 million speakers, no official status in Indonesia
- Gan: 22 million
- Madurese language: 13 million speakers, no official status in Indonesia
- Eastern Min (incl. Fuzhou dialect): 9.5 million
- Batak languages (7 languages): 7 million speakers, no official status in Indonesia
- Minangkabau language: 7 million speakers, no official status in Indonesia
- Banjar language: 3.5 million speakers, no official status in Indonesia
- Krio: 6 millions speakers, de facto national language of Sierra Leone but without official status
- Bhili language: 6 million speakers, largest linguistic community of India without regional status
- Balinese language: 4 million speakers, no official status in Indonesia
- Bugis language: 4 million speakers, no official status
- Hmong language: 4 million speakers, no official status
- Acehnese language: 3.5 million speakers, no official status in Indonesia
- Silesian language: 2 million speakers, no official status
- Aramaic language: 2 million speakers, no official status
- Yi language: 2 million speakers, no official status
- Northern Min: 2 million speakers,
Languages with official status in their region but not country
- Telugu language: 81 million speakers, state official status in India
- Cantonese: 70 million, de facto official (as "Chinese") in Hong Kong and Macau, the Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China
- Marathi language: 60 million speakers, state official status in India
- Rajasthani language:It is spoken by 50 million people in Rajasthan and neighbouring states of India and Pakistan, state official status in India
- Malayalam language: 38 million speakers, state official status in India
- Kannada language: 40 million speakers, state official status in India
- Gujarati language: 40 million speakers, state official status in India
- Oriya language: 36 million speakers, state official status in India
- Punjabi language: 100 million speakers, regional status in Pakistan where its speakers form the majority of the country's population, but state official status in India
- Maithili language: 20 million speakers, state official status in India
- Assamese language: 13 million speakers, state official status in India
- Catalan language 9.4 million speakers, official language in Catalonia, Valencia and Balearic Islands, but not in the rest of Spain, and in Andorra
- Uyghur language: 8–11 million speakers, regional official status in China
- Konkani language: 7.4 million speakers, state official status in India
- Santali language: 6.2 million speakers, state official status in India
- Tatar language: 5.4 million speakers, regional official status in Russia (Tatarstan)
- Low German: at least 4.5 million speakers 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 language: 3 million speakers, regional official language in Spain (Galicia)
- Mundari language: 2,080,000 speakers, state official status in India
- Meitei language: 1.4 million speakers, state official status in India
Language with low regional status
- Bhojpuri language: 35 million speakers, formerly considered a dialect of Hindi, in the process of being granted regional status on its own right in India
- Kurdish language: 16–26 million speakers, regional status in Iraq
- Oromo language: 25 million speakers, regional status in Ethiopia and Kenya
- Cebuano language: 20 million speakers, regional status in Central Visayas, eastern Negros Island Region and Davao Region, Philippines
- Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo with close to 20 million speakers each are the major languages of Nigeria, all three with regional status, and none with majority status.
- Zhuang languages: 14 million speakers, regional status in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
- Sylheti language: 11 million speakers, regional status in Sylhet Division
- Balochi language: 8 million speakers, regional status in Balochistan
- Ilokano language: 8 million speakers, regional status in Ilocos Region and Cagayan Valley, Philippines
- Hiligaynon language: 7 million speakers, regional status in Western Visayas, western Negros Island Region and SOCCSKSARGEN, Philippines
References
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