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The classical identification of remote mountain regions as remnants of archaic lin-guistic groups is taken as a starting point for an investigation of the processes which have led to geo-linguistic variegation in the Eastern Hindukush and Karakoram. By analysing the present language structures in rural and urban settlements the dy-namic aspects of regional mobility in mountain societies become vivid. In this contri-bution some material is presented from an empirical survey in the Eastern Hin-dukush and Karakoram of Northern Pakistan enlarged with some comparative in-formation from neighbouring regions in Badakhshan (Northern Afghanistan), Gorno-Badakhshan (Tajikistan), and Xinjiang (Peoples' Republic of China). The study aims at shifting the focus to minority languages and analysing linguistic diversity in his-torical and spatial perspective. Thus, the importance of regionalized and localized patterns of heterogeneity is stressed. The starting point is an appreciation of the 'mountain languages' in the national context of Pakistan followed by an in-depth analysis of survey results and their contextual interpretation.
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