Wikipedia says 11.5 million, but the point is that even at this scale, they are still treated as an edge case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language htt

Wikipedia says 11.5 million, but the point is that even at this scale, they are still treated as an edge case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language I'm sure there are other examples, but the general rule should be that language is a preference and not geographically forced.