Pre-school and Outside-school Mother-Tongue Educational Programmes Selkup, Ket,and Evenki Communities Pre-school and Outside-school Mother-Tongue Educational Programmes in the Context of Selkup, Ket, and Evenki Communities Olga Kazakevich London, SOAS,

Data Collection Krasnoselkup and Pur districts of Yamalo- Nenets autonomous area, Turukhansk district and Evenki municipal district of Krasnoyarsk territory

27 villages with Selkup, Ket and Evenki population were surveyed

Language situation in the surveyed villages In all the surveyed villages, including those where the autochotonous population represents the overwhelming majority (Ekonda, Surinda, Chirinda), the main means of communication both at home and in the community life is Russian.

Children able to speak their ancestral language are scarce, they can still be found only in one Evenki village (Sovetskaya Rechka) and in two Selkup villages (Ratta and Tolka, Pur district), no Ket child speaks Ket.

Vanavara childrens home

Vanavara childrens home: mother tongue classes

Kindergarten in Poligus

Sovrechka children

An Evenki boy from a reindeer camp at the Lake Bolshoye Sovetskoye

Sulomai children

Kindergarten in Sulomai

Maduika children: watching people speaking Ket

Selkup children. Farkovo

A Selkup grandmother with her grandson. Rutta

An Evenki grandfather with his grandchildren. Surinda

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