Language Contact and Language Attitudes of Caucasian Germans in Today’s Caucasus and Germany
Journal: V&R unipress eBooks
Year: 2020

This article examines the language contact situation as well as the language attitudes of the Caucasian Germans, descendants of German-born inhabitants of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union who emigrated in 1816/ 17 to areas of Transcaucasia. After deportationsa nd migrations, the group of Caucasian Germans now consists of those who havesince emigrated to Germany and those who still livei nt he South Caucasus. It'st he first time that sociolinguistic methodshavebeen used to record data from