This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy.

1. Cross-border Turkic and Iranian Language Retention in the West and East Slavic Lands and Beyond: A Tentative Classification; Paul Wexler2. Identity and Language of the Roma (Gypsies) in Central and Eastern Europe; Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin PopovPART I: NORTH SLAVS AND THEIR LANGUAGES3. The Polish Livonian Legacy in Latgalia:The Confluence of Slavic Ethnolects in the Baltic-Slavic Borderland; Catherine Gibson4. Iazychie and Surzhyk: Mixing Languages and Identities in the Ukrainian Borderlands; Andrii Danylenko5. A Borderland of Borders: The Search for a Literary Language in Carpathian Rus; Paul Robert Magocsi6. Rusyn: A New-Old Language In-Between Nations and States; Michael Moser7. The Czech-Slovak Communicative and Dialect Continuum: With and Without a Border; Mira Nábelková8. The Changing Lattice of Languages, Borders and Identities in Silesia; Tomasz Kamusella9. 'Our people is divided, yes, and torn asunder...' The Sorbian Language Community and Its Internal Divisions; Roland Marti10. Fickle Nationalism and Slovakia's Shifting Ethno-Linguistic Borders; Alexander Maxwell11. From 'Hungarus' Patriotism to Linguistic Nationalism; István FriedPART II: SOUTH SLAVS AND THEIR LANGUAGES12. Phonology and the Construction of Borders in the Balkans; Brian Joseph13. Slovene Language after the Schengen Agreement: Will the Linguistic Borders Also Disappear; Andrej BekeS14. Borderlands and Transborder Regions of the Croatian Literary Language: How Far Back in History Is Enough?; Anita Peti-Stantic and Keith Langston15. The Language Situation for the Bosniaks on Both Sides of the Serbian/Montenegrin Border; Robert Greenberg16. Burgenland Croatian: An Old Language on a Do-It-Yourself Border with a New Name; E Wayles Browne17. Identity Problems of the Goranians in Eastern Albania and Kosovo; Klaus Steinke18. Borders in Bulgaria in the Light of Areal Ethnolinguistics; Irina Sedakova19. The Rise, Fall and Revival of Banat Bulgarians and Their Language: The Sociolinguistic History and Their Identity from a Transborder Perspective; Motoki Nomachi20. Conflicting Discourses in the Balkan Slavic Language Area; Jouko LindstedtPART III: A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE21. Speakers of Russian in Ireland: Where Borderless and Bordered Languages Meet; Sarah Smyth22. Central Europe in the Middle East: The Russian Language in Israel, Anna Novikov-Almagor23. Negotiating Goods and Language on Cross-Border Retail Markets in the Postsocialist Space; Dieter Stern24. Migration or Immigration? Ireland's New and Unexpected Polish-Language; Tomasz Kamusella