Preservation of national languages as a factor of national security in the contemporary world

It is a characteristic feature of today‟s multilingual world that the current language situation in independent states has been developing under the influence of two contradictory factors. The first factor is determined by the need to preserve national identity, the desire of citizens, native speakers, to identify themselves with a certain ethnic group. The second one stems from the need for people to understand each other while building economic, political and cultural relationships, and meeting communication needs. The authors discuss groups of stabilizing and destabilizing factors considering, on the one hand, language tolerance and balanced policy of the state and, on the other hand, uneven development of national languages in the state. These factors make it possible to predict how social-and-linguistic situation would develop and adjust the systematic monitoring of negative and positive linguistic processes in the global world. © 2019, Ecozone, OAIMDD. All rights reserved.