Words in Space and Time

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With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe's languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action.

With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on languages, dialects, alphabets, religions, mass violence, or migrations over an extended period of time.

The story first focuses on Central Europe’s dialect continua, the emergence of states, and the spread of writing technology from the tenth century onward. Most maps concentrate on the last two centuries. The main storyline opens with the emergence of the Western European concept of the nation, in accord with which the ethnolinguistic nation-states of Italy and Germany were founded. In the Central European view, a “proper” nation is none other than the speech community of a single language. The Atlas aspires to help users make the intellectual leap of perceiving languages as products of human history and part of culture. Like states, nations, universities, towns, associations, art, beauty, religions, injustice, or atheism—languages are artefacts invented and shaped by individuals and their groups.

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Foreword Anngret SimmsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction: Languages and I1. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, Ninth Century2. Central Europe's Writing Systems in the Ninth Century3. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 1050 4. Central Europe's Writing Systems, 10505. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 1570 6. Central Europe's Writing Systems, 15707. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 1721 8. Central Europe's Writing Systems,17219. Europa Media anno 1721: The Latin-Language Geogrpahy of Early Modern Central Europe 10. Official Languages in Central Europe, 172111. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe Before the Balkan Wars 12. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 191013. Central Europe's Writing Systems,1910 14. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 191015. Central Europe in 1910 as Seen Through the Lens of Ottoman Turkish 16. tsentral-eyrope in 1910: Yiddish Geography17. Centra Eŭropo en 1910: Geographic and Place names in Esperanto 18. Short-lived Polities in Central Europe, 1908-1924 19. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During the Balkan Wars, World War I and in the Aftermath 20. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, late 191821. Non-State Minority, Regional and Unrecognized Languages, and Written Dialects in Central Europe, Nineteenth Through Twenty-First Centuries 22. Linguistic Areas (Sprachbünde) in Central Europe, c 193023. Linguistic Areas (Sprachbünde) in Central Europe: An Alternative Classification, c 1930 24. Central Europe's Writing Systems, 193025. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 1931 26. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During the 1930s27. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During World War Two, 1939-194028. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During World War Two, 1941-194429. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe After World War Two, 1945-1950 30. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During the Cold War, 1951-8931. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 1974-1989 32. Moldavian and Central Europe: Еуропа Чентралэ ын анул 1980 (Europa central? in anul 1980)33. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 2009 34. Central Europe's Writing Systems, 200935. Central Europe's Writing Systems in 2009 and the Past 36. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 200937. Management of Difference: Borders and Multiethnic Regions in Contemporary Central Europe 38. Management of Difference: Multiethnic Regions in Contemporary Central Europe39. Central Europe's Universities with Other Media of Instruction than the State or National Language, 2009 40. Roma Settlements in Central Europe, 200941. Mitelojropa w 2009: The Silesian Language and Central Europe 42. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, and in East and Southeast Asia, 2009Glossary Bibliography Index