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Nowadays there are six groups in Austria, which are officially known as national minorities. According to the figures from the 2001 national census, 17 241 persons have declared they were speaking Croatian in everyday life, 14 746 Slovenian, 15 390 Hungarian, 5 778 Czech, 1 775 Slovak and 1 732 Roma language. The widest rights possess Slovenian, Croatian and Hungarian minorities. In the administrative and judicial districts of Carinthia, Burgenland and Styria, the Slovene, Croat and Hungarian language are accepted as an official language in addition to German. In suchdistricts topographical terminology and inscriptions shall be in this languages as well as in German. This groups get also the biggest financial help from the government. The Roma, Czech and Slovak minorities have worse situation than others. The constitution, the acts (mainly from 1976 year) and many ordinances regulate problems of minorities. They guarantee the rights in different sphere of live (like education, culture, language rights). But on the other hand the group of people which speaks minority language has been decreased. In Austria Polish people are not accepted as the minority. There is still no official ordinance about that.