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Indigenous languages in urban surroundings Olga Kazakevich kazakevich.olga@gmail.com http://www.lcl.srcc.msu.ru http://www.siberian-lang.srcc.msu.ru Prince George, UNBC, 24.05.2014
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The paper was prepared in the framework of the project «Development of the web-site “Minority languages of Siberia, our cultural heritage: on the material of the languages of the Middle Yenisei and the Middle and Upper Taz», supported by Russian Foundation for the Humanities, grant 12-04- 120049. My participation in the Congress has been supported by NSF PLR #1360365.
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T withhe materials on linguistic situation have been collected during a series of sociolinguistic surveys done in the last two decades (1993-2013) as a part of several projects on language documentation and description realized (or being realized) at the Laboratory for Computational Lexicography, Research Computing Centre, Lomonosov Moscow State University and supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Researches, Russian Foundation for the Humanities and Yamalo-Nenets Centre for Arctic Researches.
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Regions of our fieldwork - Krasnoselkup and Pur districts, Yamalo- Nenets autonomous area, - Evenki, Taimyr, Turukhansk and Yeniseisk districts, Krasnoyarsk territory, - Upper-Ket and Kargasok districts, Tomsk region
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Documented idioms: Local dialects of Selkup (Uralic family) PC 3649 / Speakers PC 1023, Sv 600 Ket (Yeniseic family) PC 1219 / Speakers PC 213 / Sv 70 Evenki (Altaic family – Tungusic) PC 37843 / Speakers PC 4200 Western Evenkis 4372 / Sv 800 Western Evenkis 4372 / Sv 800
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Documentation of local dialects of Selkup, Ket and Western Evenki includs sociolinguistic survey of the communities, in which we work. Up to now we surveyed 45 settlements with Selkup, Ket, Evenki, Enets, Nenets, Dolgan local communities situated in Western and Central Siberia. 2 cities and 8 small towns (over 3000 people, mostly district centres) are among them.
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Dudinka Population 22049 Evenkis 71 Dolgans 786 Nenets 390 Nganasans 111 Enets 24 Elderly people (over 60), as a rule speak their ethnic language, the youth do not speak Nenets and Dolgan classes in one of the three city schools Radio programmes in all the 5 languages
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Tarko-Sale Population 24000 Selkups174 (Ab.30 Selkup speakers) Nenets 1084 (Ab.400 Nenets speakers) Selkup and Nenets classes in the boarding school TV in Forest Nenets
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