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- resided in Georgia prior to the Russian occupation (from 1801 to
1990 Georgia was annexed by the Russian empire. During this period Russia
manipulated demographic processes to its own advantage – exiled the
Georgians and Abkhazs from Georgia and instead of them settled its faithful
ethnic groups, such as Russians, Armenians, Ossetians, etc. – on the territory
of Georgia) 387
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- must be a number of people justifying the adoption of the various
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protective and promotional measures provided for in this Charter ,
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- are under the risk of forgetting their native language ,
- their native language does not represent a state language of any of
the neighbouring states
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Beyond the presented criteria, exception can be made only for
such native languages of non-autochthonous ethnic minorities that have
no other native land rather than Georgia and whose native languages are
in danger of extinction.
Cf.: the following groups cannot be regarded as constituting historical
population of Georgia, neither are the native languages of the following
groups threatened: Russians, Greeks, Kurds, Yezidis, Ukrainians,
Chechens (/Kists), Khundz (Avarians), Lithuanians, Estonians, Germans,
etc. Therefore, these languages must not be included in the list of languages
annexed to the ratification documents of the "European Charter
for Regional or Minority Languages". Linguistic rights of these ethnic
groups must be protected under The Hague and Oslo International acts.
Due to the fact that experts pay special attention to the issue of native
languages of Azeris and Armenians, discuss the history of these linguistic
groups in more detail:
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For discussion see: T.Putkaradze, Some Aspects of the Geopolitical Strategy of
Georgia (On Politicization of the Kartvelological Studies), Causes of War Prospects
for Peace, Georgian Orthodox Church and Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Tbilisi, 2009,
p. 173-183; T. Putkaradze, T. Putkaradze, Some Aspects of the Geopolitical Strategy of
Georgia (for the issue of politicization of Kartvelology), Causes of Conflicts in Georgia
and Prospects for Peace, a collection of articles published in Georgian and English languages
by Georgian Orthodox Church and Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Tbilisi, 2009,
pp. 221-234.
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See ECRML, Article 1 b and paragraph 35 of the “Explanatory Report”.
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See ECRML, Preamble and Article 2 of the “Explanatory Report”.
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See ECRML, Preamble, Part II, Article 7, Paragraph 1, g and paragraph 28 of the
“Explanatory Report”.
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