The phrase "majority language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the language spoken by the majority of a population in a certain area. For example, French is the majority language in Quebec.
Shot in two versions - French and Wolof, the majority language of Senegal - it won a special jury prize in Venice.
Panter-Downes also sensed the ethnic and religious tensions that would eventually lead to the war between the Tamil insurgents and the Sinhalese majority: Language and religion … are still very much in the front of the picture today.
Page A6 BELGIUM FORMS GOVERNMENT The financial markets prodded political parties in Belgium to agree on a governing coalition, but the prime-minister-to-be, Elio Di Rupo, has not yet mastered Dutch, the majority language.
Due to this geographic distribution, English is the majority language (88%% of followers).
They want to preserve their culture and fend off encroachment of English, Canada's majority language.
I remember our resentment when new government decrees imposed both Hindi and Marathi (the regional majority language) as compulsory subjects.
How the machines work: 1) Candidates' names are written in the majority languages and scripts of the constituency.
However, the case presented here involves the majority languages spoken in the region.
A museum of the Tigers' war materiel including boats has even been opened, with signs in the majority Sinhala language, but not the local Tamil language.
The majority of language versions, however, followed the same, i.e. internationally recommended, complex methodology of language adaptation.
The majority's language, by contrast, was muted and lawyerly.
