This contribution aims to highlight the geofactors which determine the development and continuity of language islands and the territories of minority languages. The focus of this research is therefore primarily on the geomorphological conditions of a specific language area and the interaction of natural factors, such as landform configuration, quality of soil and climate, with sociological and political factors. This approach will offer a new perspective on the genesis of these specific speech areas by taking into consideration the geographical conditions from the beginning of the first settlements through the history of further language propagation and language contact. The case studies chosen to substantiate this theory are the Cimbrian community and the Ladin-speaking valleys in the Alps (Northern Italy) as well as different minority languages spoken in Sardinia, where hilly landscapes alternate with plains, both bordered by the sea. All these languages became minority languages in remote areas, though the determining factors, geographical as well as socio-linguistic, were quite different.

该贡献旨在强调决定语言岛和少数民族语言领土的发展和连续性的地理因素。因此，本研究的重点主要在于特定语言区域的地貌条件以及自然因素（例如地形配置，土壤和气候的质量）与社会，政治因素之间的相互作用。通过考虑从第一个定居点开始到进一步的语言传播和语言接触的历史的地理条件，这种方法将为这些特定语音区域的起源提供一个新的视角。为证实这一理论而选择的案例研究包括阿尔卑斯山（意大利北部）的辛布里亚人社区和讲拉丁语的山谷，以及撒丁岛使用的不同少数民族语言，撒丁岛的丘陵景观与平原交替，都与海接壤。尽管地理和社会语言的决定因素大不相同，但所有这些语言在边远地区都成为少数族裔语言。