"evropuli qartia saqarTvelo "European Charter for Regional or ...

official language serves as a tool of communication with a central government).
language of migrants - (Article I of the Charter);
foreign language (31);
less widespread languages - (18); the term ("less widespread languages")
was disfavored by the authors of the charter who gave preference
to the term: regional or minority language;
local variant of the language 343
; c. ibid. word combinations:
Different languages;
separate language - (32);
similar language - (69);
dialect (of the language).
The idioms indicated in different terms in the Charter could be
represented in three major groups in terms of sociolinguistics:
1. an official language of the state and its local varieties (dialects):
1.1. the only state language (or one of the state languages);
1.2. a state language in an autonomous formation;
1.3. a regional variety of a state language (/a dialect).
2. a historical regional or minority language:
2.1. a language of a historical majority in a region – a regional language;
2.2. a language of an autochthonous minority in a region – a minority
language;
2.3. a historical language that lacks a territorial base – a non-territorial
language.
343 These languages must clearly differ from the other language or languages spoken by
the remainder of the population of the state. The charter does not concern local variants
or different dialects of one and the same language. However, it does not pronounce
on the often disputed question of the point at which different forms of expression
constitute separate languages. This question depends not only on strictly linguistic
considerations, but also on psycho-sociological and political phenomena, which may
produce a different answer in each case. Accordingly, it will be left to the authorities
concerned within each state, in accordance with its own democratic processes, to determine
at what point a form of expression constitutes a separate language. (Paragraph 32);
(cf.: the published Georgian translation).
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