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Usage of Latin languages in Macedonia

Why is the Republic of Macedonia colored in red on this image? Macedonians speak a South Slavic language. The biggest minority is Albanians and their language is not shown as romance language on the map. Next there should be the Turkish minority and maybe after that you can claim there are some Vlachs, Aromanians or another Romanian group. Should someone correct this image? At most Macedonia should include yellow spots as is the case of some regions in Greece.

Revert

The map shows areas where Romance languages have official status, not where they are spoken. The edit of 2 May 2008 (by a user known as a Romanian patriot edit warrior at en:Latin Europe) introduced yellow spots in Hungary, the Ukraine and Albania. This was incorrect. The only official language of Hungary is Hungarian, the only official language of Albania is Albanian (I think, although other languages may have some sort of status, I don't think this status is "regional"), and the only official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian. If I am mistaken in this, present your references proving me wrong. --Dbachmann (talk) 16:10, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I cite you from the description of the image: Areas in yellow show "significant regional unofficial" usage of romance language. --Olahus (talk) 16:19, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Fiume and Dalmatia

The map should have in yellow even some areas of Dalmatia, where still there are communities of Italian speaking people. In the former Italian isles of Cherso (Cres) and Lussino (lusinj), as well as in Zara (Zadar), Fiume (Rijeka) and Spalato (Split) there are still some few thousands of "Dalmatian Italians", who survived the forced exodus after WWII. B.D.

Brittany

While I appreciate the impulse to give the Breton language its due, Brittany should not be marked as a 'co-official' area. Unfortunately, French is the only official language in any part of France; while Breton is used by some regional authorites for some limited purposes it is not an official language. CharlesMartel (talk) 15:39, 7 December 2017 (UTC)CharlesMartel

African Romance

This map is off. I'm finding it hard to believe that the large Roman cities and provinces in North Africa never spoke Latin in any level of prominence. They have the St. Augustinesque are of Algeria to Tunisia, but large parts that were once very prominent Roman areas of North Africa are missing. Namely Volubilus among other territories.