TY - JOUR N2 - The author defends the thesis that language is an attribute of a nation and as such it is offi cially protected by the international legal system irrespective of the number of its speakers; thus, there is no such phenomenon as a “little language”. Linguistic minorities speak their mother languages or some dialectal variants of those languages L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/108729/PDF/R.Slawist.%2067-2018%206-Z.Topolinska.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/108729 PY - 2018 IS - No LXVII EP - 117 DO - 10.24425/rslaw.2018.124594 KW - tradition KW - folklore KW - local patriotism KW - territorial variable administration A1 - Topolińska, Zuzanna PB - Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN DA - 2018.11.30 T1 - Little Motherlands ~ “little languages” (Slavic perspective) SP - 115 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/108729 T2 - Rocznik Slawistyczny ER -