Linguistic regions of Europe

Alghero (; ; ; ) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Sassari in the north west of the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy, next to the Mediterranean Sea. With a population of , it is the 5th-largest city in Sardinia.

250px|thumb|Official Gaeltacht regions in Ireland A Gaeltacht ( , , ) is a district of Ireland, either individually or collectively, where the Irish government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant vernacular, or language of the home. The Gaeltacht districts were first officially recognised during the 1920s in the early years of the Irish Free State, following the Gaelic revival, as part of a government policy aimed at restoring the Irish language.

territories in Northern and Western Europe in which Celtic cultural traits have survived

thumb|336px|right|Geographic distribution of Gaelic speakers in Scotland (2011) The '''' (; English: Gaeldom'') usually refers to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and especially the Scottish Gaelic-speaking culture of the area. The similar Irish language word refers, however, solely to Irish-speaking areas.

main Welsh-speaking areas of Wales

thumb|Unofficial coat of arms of the Schönhengstgau - used e.g. by Schönhengster Heimatbund e.V. The Schönhengstgau is a historical region in Bohemia and Moravia, which, however, did not form a unity either in terms of landscape or politics. Until the end of World War II, it was the largest German language island in Czechoslovakia.