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- Title
Linguistic Situations in Conflict Regions -- The Abkhazia Border within Russia according to 1989 Census Data and Politicized Linguistic Maps.
- Authors
Putkaradze, Tariel
- Abstract
Before 1993 the majority of the autochthonous population of Abkhazia was Georgians. At the end of the 20th c. official and informal military troops of the Russian Federation expelled 350 000 Georgians and 30 000 Abkhaz from the autonomous republic. Some scholars try to provide the world with such linguistic maps of the site of this linguistic tragedy that suggest there are no and never had been any Georgian-speaking residents in Abkhazia. Below we provide the language situation description in north-west Georgia (We have referred to the official 1989 Soviet Union census data as basis for our argumentation).
- Subjects
RUSSIA; LINGUISTICS; MAPS; LANGUAGE &; languages; ABKHAZIANS; GEORGIAN Americans
- Publication
SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2008, Vol 5, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
1336-782X
- Publication type
Article