This volume presents the articles published in the first two issues of the online periodical Mikroglottika - An International Journal of Minority Language Philologies. It came about in 2007 with the purpose of providing philologies of minority languages with a platform of discussion. The range of topics dealt with in this book may have to do with the linguistic or philological description of a minority language in relation to any linguistic parameter (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon etc., the discussion being synchronic or diachronic), or they may imply the sociolinguistic description of a particular situation in which one or several minority languages are involved.