Official Languages of the UK and GB

[Bewlay Bros]

Is there an "official" number of languages of the UK. I don't mean Urdu or Arabic with all our immigrants, but maybe indigenous ones.

I can think of

English
Gaelic
Erse???
Welsh
Cornish
Is Celtic a language?

Are these "official". If so what are their correct names and are there any others?

Thank you.

[Bewlay Bros]

Forgot to add is Pikey (not really Romany) an official language as well?

[saxy_jag]

I believe some Cornishmen speak Breton.

[Lonnie]

Strange one really, we don't have an official language, what we have is National languages.

So all the languages you've mentioned, and others,would be the national languages of those peoples.

[spudqueen]

They may be teaching cornish again in schools but the last person who spoke cornish as a mother tongue died about 300 years ago.

[JK2]

See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_in_the_ United_Kingdom

[JK2]

Spudqueen - Cornish is spoken by 3,500 people according to Wiki and is registered as an official UK minority language