section_path: Geographical distribution/Europe/Outside the German Sprachraum
section_name: Outside the German Sprachraum
paragraph_text: Outside the German Sprachraum
  
  Although expulsions and (forced) assimilation after the two World wars greatly diminished them, minority communities of mostly bilingual German native speakers exist in areas both adjacent to and detached from the Sprachraum.
  
  Within Europe, German is a recognized minority language in the following countries:
  
  In France, the High German varieties of Alsatian and Moselle Franconian are identified as " regional languages ", but the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages of 1998 has not yet been ratified by the government.