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the borders of Turkey, the very problem cannot be solved even in case
of implementation of the "European Charter for Regional or Minority
Languages" by Russian occupant regime. Georgian jurisdiction must be
restored in Apkhazeti and Tskhinvali region.
Thus, the "European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages"
in its sense is a clear and a high-level document; its provisions
pose no danger for any country.
In case of individual consideration of principles of the ECRML
and the Hague and Oslo recommendations, without any harm to the
state language in Georgia and other countries, it is possible to define the
status of all existed linguistic entities and to protect the linguistic rights
of representatives of principal population, historical minorities, new minorities
and migrants. The ECRML facilitates maintenance of linguisticcultural
(national) heritage by the autochthonous – historical (rather
than new) minorities who possess no state of their own or are within the
foreign state boundaries. Moreover, the "European Charter for Regional
or Minority Languages" requires to prioritize the languages of endangered,
unprotected historical minorities 445
.
The provisions of the ECRML do not cover the languages of the
"new minorities" of the state in question; for this purpose, other international
legal documents (the Hague and Oslo recommendations) are
available.
By taking into account the provisions of the ECRML, 7 types of
languages could be considered:
- a language of a traditional (autochthonous) principal population
– a state language;
- a language in autonomous formation – the language of the autonomous
formation designated by its society – another state language in
this formation (which is the concern of the governments of the state and
the autonomous formation);
- a language of a historical, autochthonous ethnic minority; it
must be protected by the state by taking into account Part III of the
ECRML;
- a language of a migrant ethnic gourp that settled in the state in
question centuries ago, and which has no opportunity to be protected
anywhere else. Depending on the goodwill of the state, this type of language
could be covered by the provisions of Part II of the ECRML; in
445 Robert Dunbar, “Comments: Relations between the Framework Convention and the
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages”, Filling the Frame, collection of
documents, 2004, p. 35.
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