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Interestingly it's now quite similar in number to Catalan, which after all these years is still not an official EU language despite being spoken by ~10M people (~4M natively) in multiple countries.



All Spaniards can speak Spanish according to Spanish Constitution.

Thus, Catalan is a regional language. If the EU should have to provide translations and material in each of the regional languages, the cost of coding laws would be quite a bit high.


There's already 24 official languages:

https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-languages_en

not even those get all translations:

https://europa.eu/european-union/abouteuropa/language-policy...

And cost per page is around 80€

https://slator.com/industry-news/eur-82-per-page-inside-eu-t...

Already 2006 translation cost was close to 1bn/year, must be much more now...

https://euobserver.com/news/21459




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