Talk:Languages of the European Union

Laws and Legislation
The European Union does self evidently make law and legislation, and lots of them. How you classify these laws is another thing. Whether it's primary, secondary or tertiary legislation it's still legislation. A quick Google search on the subject will reveal tonnes of books written on the subject. Including notably Blackstone's EU Treaties and Legislation 2014-2015 which includes about 400 pages of regulations and directives adopted by the EU institutions under the heading "Secondary Legislation". — Blue-Haired Lawyer t 14:17, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

After Brexit ...
Where can statistics about the percentages of native speakers of the official EU-languages after Brexit be found? ThomasPusch (talk) 22:33, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Native Esperanto speakers
Really "native" Esperanto speakers ? What does 'native' mean in this context ? 134.3.145.123 (talk) 15:15, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
 * See Native Esperanto speakers. Burzuchius (talk) 18:50, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Future of English in the EU
I deleted all of the above section because it was nothing more than tabloid style nonsense speculation that the position of Engliish as an official language might change once 1 of the 3 countries that (were/are) member states left. Can we have some standards? Or is any old garbage fair game for inclusion? Frenchmalawi (talk) 02:38, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

South-Slavic languages
This section is confusing. Bulgarian and Slovene are also South-Slavic languages, so the title is wrong, as this point doesn't affect them. We are talking about the linguistic spectrum of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin. Croatia is the only country to have joined the EU. The section doesn't explain why there was a negotiation about accepting Croatian as a separate language from the others at all, as the other countries were and still are far from being able to join the EU. --2001:16B8:313A:CC00:B5D5:3BC6:F061:9D27 (talk) 17:32, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I fixed the writing a little bit to bring more context about the issue, which seems to be that the language, previously unified under the Serbo-Croatian denomination, split among ethnic lines due to the Yugoslav civil war with the influence of nationalism. Despite all of these being the same old language, these standards have minimal differences that are exploited and exaggerated for political grounds, with politicians claiming these are different languages and not "dialects" of the same language (despite the fact these are all based on the same dialect, Eastern Herzegovinian, and then lightly modified, per this Wikipedia article on the matter). --181.65.56.252 (talk) 15:10, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

What does "(s)" mean?
It appears only in the Knowledge section. Here for the one billionth edit (talk) 19:53, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Poland numbers
How Poland in that table has only 32 million inhabitants? And why do you assume 26% of Poles are Russian speakers? Do you think everyone who has ever learnt Russian in a communist school can actually speak it? I assure you very few people can. 2A02:A311:803C:7500:E0CD:9EED:F791:2734 (talk) 23:22, 4 March 2024 (UTC)