THIS DOCUMENT COMPRISES THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION TO A SELECTION OF WRITINGS COMPILED AND EDITED BY M.M. GUXMAN--"VOPROSY FORMIROVANIJA I RAZVITIJA NACIONAL'NYX JAZYKOV (PROBLEMS OF THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL LANGUAGES)," MOSCOW, 1960. GUXMAN'S VOLUME IS A COLLECTION OF DETAILED STUDIES OF LANGUAGES SUCH AS ARABIC, UZBEK, AND BASHKIR, WHICH HAVE UNDERGONE CERTAIN REGULAR PROCESSES IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT. THE STUDIES ILLUSTRATE--(1) THE INTERRELATION BETWEEN WRITTEN LITERARY AND COLLOQUIAL FOLK VARIETIES OF LANGUAGE, AND (2) THE PROCESS OF STANDARDIZATION AND FORMATION OF A COMMON NATIONAL LITERARY NORM. THE CHAPTERS SELECTED BY THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS FOR TRANSLATION ARE THOSE STUDIES WHICH ARE NEW OR ORGANIZED SO AS TO ILLUSTRATE GUXMAN'S POINTS PARTICULARLY WELL. (EXCLUDED ARE MATERIALS ALREADY WELL-KNOWN TO SCHOLARS IN THE UNITED STATES--ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND NETHERLANDIC.) THIS INTRODUCTION AND CONCLUSION WERE TRANSLATED BY ALFRED PIETRZYK OF THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS. (AMM)