Linguae Europaeae

Source: Wikimedia Commons by Bridget Handley Bridget Handley  is a Senior majoring in Accountancy and minoring in Political Science at the University of Illinois. Bridget is passionate about travel, having been to around 45 countries and recently studied abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark over the summer of 2022. Bridget recently was accepted into the Masters of Accountancy Science program, and aspires to be a corporate attorney.   She  wrote this blog post for 418 “Languages and Minorities in Europe” in Spring 2023. Denmark, a Scandinavian Country with a rich history and culture, is in a position of increasing globalization. Welcoming millions of tourists annually, and, according to Statista data, facing increasing amounts of immigration from 2020-2023 (with a notable 71% increase in immigration from 2021-2022), Denmark has been adjusting to various changes, practices, and cultures foreigners bring.  One of the largest impacts tourism, immigration and globaliza...

By Kathryn Butterworth The Republic of Georgia on the Eastern rim of Europe is unique in its language and dialect diversity, in addition to being home to many minorities and minority languages. With a population of about 4 million, Georgia is home to more than a dozen languages. The official state language is Georgian. It is a literary and written language shared by multiple subgroups of other languages like Svans, Mingrelians and Laz that belong to the same group of Kartvelian languages as Georgian. The other ethnic groups in the country include Azeris, Armenians, Russians, Ossetians Yazdis, Ukrainians, Kists, and Greeks. The country’s multilingualism is largely a result of its history that evolved from disparate kingdoms first united under Bagrat III into a single state in 1008. A successor state of the Soviet Union, Georgia has been an independent state since 1999 and a member of the Council of Europe. It is home to sizable immigrant communities and multiple dialects within its ...