By Bernard Comrie
A common account of the languages of the Soviet Union, the most varied multinational and multilingual states on this planet in addition to probably the most very important. There are a few one hundred thirty languages spoken within the USSR, belonging to 5 major households and varying from Russian, that is the 1st language of approximately 130,000,000 humans, to Aluet, spoken merely through ninety six (in the 1970 census). Dr Comrie has basic goals. First, he provides crucial structural beneficial properties of those languages, their genetic relationships and category and their specific typological beneficial properties. Secondly, he examines the social and political heritage to using functioning of a number of the languages in a multilingual country. the quantity should be of value and curiosity to linguists and to these with a broader specialist curiosity within the Soviet Union.
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Georgian. Georgia has a large Armenian minority, settled in the confinesof Georgia long before the incorporation into the RussianEmpirc. Evenallowingfor somemisreporting,and theexclusionofstatisticson trilingualism,it is clear that within an area like Georgia bilingualisminvolving Russianis taking over from bilingualisminvolvingGeorgian. R. hav€ also long since acquired a knowledgeof Russian. and a replacement of previouspsychological barriersby bondsol brotherly friendship, mutualtrust,and mutualhelp.
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Georgia has a large Armenian minority, settled in the confinesof Georgia long before the incorporation into the RussianEmpirc. Evenallowingfor somemisreporting,and theexclusionofstatisticson trilingualism,it is clear that within an area like Georgia bilingualisminvolving Russianis taking over from bilingualisminvolvingGeorgian. R. hav€ also long since acquired a knowledgeof Russian. and a replacement of previouspsychological barriersby bondsol brotherly friendship, mutualtrust,and mutualhelp. hasno officialpolicyof replacement of thenon-Russian languages by Russian.