What are some biggest communities (town, villages) where the majority speaks other languages than the majority language of the country?

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1. [Narva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narva) is by far the largest Russian majority town in Estonia with 54k inhabitants, 83% of them being Russian and approximately 87% Russophone East Slavic population in total. Some settlements at the coast of Lake Peipus have a distinct Russian Old Believer majority, like [Mustvee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustvee) (1,160 and 60% Russians, most of them Old Believers) and [Kallaste](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallaste) (710 and 73% Russians, most of them Old Believers).

   There really aren’t any other settlements where a majority speaks other languages since the Coastal Swedes left in 1944.

2. Harghita and Covasna counties were the majority of the population are ethnic Hungarians

3. Definitely South Tyrol, where the majority speaks German, but also some areas of Friuli-Venezia Giulia where mainly Slovenian is spoken.

4. Catalonia. Other local languages aren’t majoritary anymore in their region (at least that’s what people from that regions have told me, if you look up official stats they say it is)

5. We’ve a few ‘Gaeltacht’ areas, where the Irish language has a strong presence and where there are clusters of people who speak Irish, but the sad reality of it is that they’re a few villages / rural areas, mostly found in the west of Ireland, and the rest of it is really just an attempt to keep the language alive for cultural reasons.

   The last monolingual native speaker died in 1998 – Seán Ó hEinirí

   There’s is quite literally nobody left who communicates exclusively though Irish anymore, although it is still the primary language in those communities and in some households, but it’s pretty unusual and for most of us it’s just a second language we learn in school.

6. Southern Carinthia where there are a lot of a majority Slovene places.