Language, identities, and ideologies of the Past and Present Chukotka

• Main Author: Morgounova, Daria
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Lawrence Island; Chukotka; St Lawrence Island; Yupik; Alaska
• Online Access: https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/language-identities-and-ideologies-of-the-past-and-present-chukotka(7a5c31e0-ac39-11df-928f-000ea68e967b).html

The historical background of Chukotka is one of intensive language contact and of rapid socio-political, economic, cultural and spiritual change, which often makes any predictions difficult, also in regard to language. When I first came to Chukotka in 2003, the Yupiget sense of ethnic awareness was...