37.2185, Confs: International Conference on Enclave Languages/Linguistic Islands (Cyprus)

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Subject: 37.2185, Confs: International Conference on Enclave Languages/Linguistic Islands (Cyprus)

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Date: 25-Jun-2026
From: Stelios Irakleous [irakleous.stylianos at ucy.ac.cy]
Subject: International Conference on Enclave Languages/Linguistic Islands


International Conference on Enclave Languages/Linguistic Islands

Date: 25-Feb-2027 - 26-Feb-2027
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline: 30-Sep-2026

Linguistic enclaves and/or islands are communities whose spoken
variety differs from that of the surrounding majority, often preserved
through geographical, social, or political separation. Whether they
are long-established diaspora varieties, historical settler languages,
or indigenous communities encircled by an official standard language,
enclave languages offer rich insights in a variety of linguistic
issues.
Having long coexisted in regions of intense multilingualism,
migration, and shifting borders, Turkish and Greek offer a uniquely
rich area for the study of linguistic enclave/island phenomena. This
conference seeks to explore how Turkish and Greek varieties function
as islands – whether as historical enclaves, minority communities,
diaspora settings, or contact zones – and what they reveal about
language contact, maintenance, shift, change, and identity. We wish to
explore the sociolinguistic and structural dynamics of enclaved
languages—linguistic varieties spoken by geographically and socially
bounded communities entirely surrounded by one or more dominant
languages.
Therefore, we welcome contributions addressing the aforementioned
issues from any theoretical or methodological perspective, including
sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, historical linguistics,
dialectology, language documentation, anthropological linguistics, and
applied linguistics.



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