1151 | 12 | Minority place-name standardization. A comparison of regulations and approaches in Europe

The paper presents a research project under the auspices of the Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy and the IGU Commission on the Geography of Governance. It is to result in a handbook to be published in 2024 comprising three volumes that attempts to compare regulations on minority place names in the countries of Europe with autochthonous linguistic minorities on the background of ethnic and linguistic structures, historical and political developments, the political landscape, governance structures, and external relations. Is minority place-name standardization part of the general standardization process or are there specific regulations? Is it a bottom-up or a top-down process and which administrative levels are involved? The project is also going to explain, to which extent these regulations satisfy linguistic minorities and help to facilitate the relations between majority and minority. _x000D_
This paper will introduce into the intentions, structure and goals of this project and thus also into the contents and the other papers of this session, which will the refer to the situation in individual countries. _x000D_
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Peter Jordan
(1) Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Urban and Regional Research; (2) University of the Free State (South Africa), Faculty of Humanities

ID Abstract: 12