On language diversity in _The Economist_

[Loren A. BILLINGS]

Dear colleagues,

An article in the 1 March 1997 issue of _The Economist_ might be of
interest.  It discusses the politics of indigenous languages in the various
republics of the Russian Federation, along with a somewhat detailed table
and map.  As some of you may know, there has been a push among Slavists in
the US to study some of the more endangered languages of the Russian
Federation (Lenore Grenoble's talk at the Chicago AATSEEL meeting in 1995
coming to mind).

Best,  --Loren Billings (billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de)


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Loren A. BILLINGS, Ph.D.  (e-mail:  billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de)

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