Aromanian

There is no official estimate for Greece; the Mercator research centre cites an overall figure of 502,160 speakers across the Balkans (Ethnologue, 2017) and classifies Aromanian as critically endangered¹.

Greece has not signed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; the authorities do not recognise the Aromanians as a distinct ethnic group and regard them as "Vlach- (or Latin-) speaking Greeks"¹.

Aromanian is used neither in the courts nor in public administration¹.

The law makes no provision for teaching Aromanian but does not strictly forbid it; the language is not taught in state schools and cannot be studied at university (a course existed at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 1996 to 1997)¹. Teaching is provided by associations, often by native speakers without teacher training, for example in Athens, Veria, Metsovo, Velestino or Konitsa¹.

The language appears in the media only occasionally, in folk dance and song programmes¹.

The Pan-Hellenic Union of Vlach Cultural Associations, founded in 1985, brings together about a hundred local associations; the Society of Aromanians of Athens, founded in late 2015, started courses in 2016 and held a workshop on writing and teaching the language in 2017¹.