Languages in The South Caucasus Region and in SouthEastern Europe: Culture, Semiotics, and Politics

Abstract

Southeastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus share nu¬merous similarities in the sociodynamic importance of their languages. This paper asks which features illustrate this and provides a few examples. We assume that internal and exter¬nal factors always accompany standardization issues, minority language treatment, and geographic language distribution. Thus, we emphasize these similarities between Southeast Europe and the South Caucasus and analyze them from linguistic, cultural, semiotic, and political perspectives.