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problems though only approximately 500 persons regard themselves as
Udis and many of them do not remember their native language; therefore,
certain measures are to be taken for maintenance-protection of the
Udi language and culture. In Georgia similar attitude may be assumed
only towards Assyrian language (a native language of population in
village Kanda), the mixture of Akkadian and Aramaic is in danger of extinction
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The principles presented by us follows from fundamental provisions
of the ECRML, though they differ from the attitudes of J. Wheatley
and T. Wicherkiewicz to a certain degree.
Cf.: According to T. Wicherkiewicz group, Russian and Ukrainian
may be declared as languages of Georgia’s historical population. In
the given context the decision of some of the post-Soviet countries is
interesting in terms of ambiguous principles of selecting regional or minority
languages; for instance, we believe that selection of the Russian
language as a regional or minority language by the Armenian authorities
was not ensured by adherence to the criteria and principles of the Char-
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ter . Cf. The analogous lists of UK, Germany or Spain that strictly follow
the principles of the Charter 399
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We are under the impression that the Polish Doctor and his Georgian
colleagues followed the "language list" of Armenia and Romania
rather than the acknowledged principles in Western Europe.
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http://www.aina.org/aol/peter/brief.htm#Language;
http://lemill.net/content/webpages/dzveli-qanda-ena-dialeqti
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Armenia (ratification: 25 January, 2002): Assyrian, Yezidi, Greek, Russian, Kurdish.
We think that under the influence of the Russian lobby an inadequate perception of the
Charter is being established within the post-Soviet area: namely, the Russian language is
declared as a historical one in the countries where it spread as an imperial language only
a short period ago. In Georgian context it is interesting that Russian media encourages
migrant ethnoses which settled in Georgia short time ago to demand the status of a regional
language (for materials see: “will the Azeri language be assigned a status of a
regional language?” (Materials by Tea Markhvaidze), Akhali Taoba (New Generation),
№361, December 30, 2008.
399 For instance, regional or minority languages of Spain are as follows (ratification: 09.
04. 2001): Basque, Catalan, Galician.
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