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In the presented work there have been investigated the issues of the endangered language ecology on the example of the Tsovatush (Bats) language, the member of the Nakh branch of the North Caucasian language family, spoken by the population of only half the village Zemo Alvani, situated in Georgia, namely, in Akhmeta region. Research focus is on the sociolinguistic factors of language endangerment. For revealing the reasons causing the danger of Tsovatush language and the stimulating characteristics for switching ...

The article deals with phonetic characteristics of Georgian language islands, embedded in Tsovatush (Bats) matrix language. Research focus is on phonetic processes in relation to the stages of bilingualism. Phonetic production of code switching is paid less attention by the scholars, comparing with other domains of the language. Previous studies have generally examined segmental features of code switching, recent researches deal also with suprasegmental level, but phonetic processes have remained relatively unstud...