The Languages of Indigenous Peoples in Chukotka and the Media
This paper examines the history of the development of indigenous people’s media in Chukotka. I draw attention to the changes that have occurred with the Native newspaper and the reasons for those changes. I suggest that the newspaper has broadened the social functions of the indigenous languages of...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.412.1511 http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/ILAC/ILAC_25.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper examines the history of the development of indigenous people’s media in Chukotka. I draw attention to the changes that have occurred with the Native newspaper and the reasons for those changes. I suggest that the newspaper has broadened the social functions of the indigenous languages of the area. I will show how the newspaper interacts with the educational and social organizations, whose purpose is to develop and save indigenous languages, and how it has built up a sense of our language’s worth. In this paper, I use the |
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