Historical and Political Studies of "Linguistic Territoriality" in Europe

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Looking at linguistic policies of European countries, we see that each country applies the principle of "Linguistic Territoriality" in different levels. Such differences depends on the following conditions : (1)transterritorial population movement ; (2) linguistic distance between neighboring languages ; (3) thesize of the authority that puts language policies into practice (state, autonomous region, municipality, cultural associations, etc.) and levels of decentralization of the States concerned ; (4) levels of urbanization ; (5) linguistic ideologies which vary according to the languages and countries ; and (6) the commercial values, or popularity, of the languages concerned.