DIASPORA LANGUAGES OF KRASNOYARSK TERRITORY: WRITING AND STANDARDIZATION

Abstract

Active migration processes taking place in various regions of the Russian Federation actualize the study of diasporic languages in the light of their social typology (N.B. Mechkovskaya). An important role in the preservation of these languages is played by such signs as the presence of writing and its duration, as well as the degree of standardization. Diasporic languages are widely studied in Russian science, but scientific works devoted to the languages of the diasporas of the Krasnoyarsk Territory are few. Among them there are no works devoted to their sociolinguistic characteristics, which actualizes the conducted research. As a result of the analysis and generalization of scientific works devoted to the diasporic languages of the most numerous ethnic groups of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the classification of the languages under consideration according to such characteristics as: 1) the duration of the written tradition (young-written, old-written); 2) the duration of the existence of the literary form (young literary, literary with a long language tradition); 3) the presence or absence of their own writing and its basis (having a separate letter based on Cyrillic or Latin); 4) the degree of stability of the graphics system (with a stable graphics system, the graphics system is historically unstable). It is revealed that most of the diasporic languages of the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the most numerous ethnic groups are old-written, literary with a long linguistic tradition, have a Cyrillic script and a historically unstable graphic basis. The findings can be taken into account when planning and developing a language policy in the field of preservation of the languages in question, in particular, when organizing events held at the House of Friendship of the Peoples of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.