Abstract

The article examines the contacting languages in regional bilingual environments and their role in the preservation of national identity and national culture in multinational states Using the example of the regional languages of Spain that have received the status of co-official languages Basque Catalan Galician Aran and Valencian the linguistic situation in autonomous entities the peculiarities of bilingualism and the types of language conflicts are studied The selected parameters are used to describe the linguistic situation in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania The article concludes about the status of the Ossetian language the dominant role of the Russian language and the unbalanced linguistic situation1 The formation of national Ossetian identity should take place in the three-dimensional space of national all- Russian and world culture