>>Of course I know of samisk, but although it is an official language, it's not very much used, except by the same people. Bokmål and nynorsk on the other hand are both mandatiry in school and both must also be used at least 20% of the time in all public radio and TV channels. Especially this is a huge problem for our "new" norwegians.
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>We've got the Welsh and about 6 people who still speak Cornish!

I find welsh completely incomprehensible, as I guess most british do! I was in Wales with my family about twenty years ago, and in Cardiff we talked to a man from that area. I mentioned that we had planned to drive to the town with the longest name in the world , and he said what the name was, in welsh. My two sons laughed their heart out, and he said it four more times until I asked him to stop, or my sons would have collapsed. And, by the way, don't ask me to even try to remember what the name of that town was!