The vitality and revitalisation attempts of the Mansi language in Khanty-Mansiysk
The Mansi language is an endangered indigenous minority language spoken in Western Siberia. Linguistically it belongs to the family of Uralic languages, socially it belongs to the group of the so-called numerically small indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation. The beginnings of bilingualism (a...
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| Language: | English Hungarian |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://doktori.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/10757/ https://doktori.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/10757/1/Horvath_Csilla_disszertacio.pdf https://doktori.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/10757/2/Horvath%20Csilla_tezisek_angol.pdf https://doktori.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/10757/3/Horvath%20Csilla_tezisek_magyar.pdf |
| Summary: | The Mansi language is an endangered indigenous minority language spoken in Western Siberia. Linguistically it belongs to the family of Uralic languages, socially it belongs to the group of the so-called numerically small indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation. The beginnings of bilingualism (and probable multilingualism) of the Mansi society are no doubt located in the distant past, and it would be problematic to determine the starting point of language shift, but it is certain that researchers (e.g. Munkácsi 1889a: 208, 222-224) have been complaining about the difficulty of finding native speakers due to assimilation and rapid language shift for more than a hundred years. Thus, it appears to be likely that at least a part of Mansi society became a subject of language endangerment already during the 19th century, and the process has continued ever since. In my dissertation I am seeking answers to the following questions: (1) How is the vitality of the Mansi language in Khanty-Mansiysk prior to the emergence of revitalisation efforts and initiatives best described? (2) What kind of revitalisation attempts has been appearing in Khanty-Mansiysk, aiming at the revitalisation of the Mansi language? Who are the initiators of these efforts? What are the goals of these initiatives, which groups constitute their target audience? To what extent have these initiatives been effective in relation to their goals? (3) How has the situation of the vitality of the Mansi language in Khanty-Mansiysk changed as a result of the revitalisation efforts? |
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