Chapter 1 An Introduction to Comparing Categorizations of Minority Languages

Chapter 2 Reflections on a Multidisciplinary Approach to “Minority Languages” as a Legal Object in Europe: The Categorization of Regional and Minority Languages under the Charter

Chapter 3 Reflection on a Multidisciplinary Approach to “Minority Languages” as a Linguistic Object in Europe

Chapter 4 The Epistemological Significance of Comparing Social and Scientific Approaches to Minority Languages in France and Spain

Chapter 5 Prototypical Notions of Minority Languages in the Soviet Union and Russia: “Native Language” (rodnoj âzyk) and “National Language” (nacional’nij âzyk)

Chapter 6 The Categorization of the Languages in Ingria and the Language Loyalty of their Native Speakers

Chapter 8 From Nominations of Socio-Ethnic Groups to Categorization of Minority Languages in China: Semantic Analysis

Chapter 9 Typology of “Migration Languages” and Linguistic Representations in a Bicultural Situation

Chapter 10 Social and Political Status of “Non-classical” Diasporas across the Former USSR

Chapter 11 Categorization of the Chuvash Language in the Chuvash Republic and Beyond