Лингвистические биографии представителей марийской диаспоры московского региона (уроженцев Горномарийского района Республики Марий Эл)
Linguistic Biographies of Moscow Region Maris — Natives of Hill Mari District of the Republic of Mari El

Summary/Abstract: The present paper is the second in a series of articles devoted to the linguistic biographies of representatives of the Mari diaspora of the Moscow region, in this case, natives of the Hill Mari district of the Republic of Mari El in the sample. The main purpose of the sociolinguistic survey conducted by the author in the Mari diaspora in 2019-2021 was to identify and describe the functioning of the ethnic language in the conditions of the internal diaspora; in particular, such aspects as the domains of use of Mari and the functions it performs in the diaspora were studied. The use of the language is largely determined by the previous language experience of respondents in their small homeland. The questions contained in the questionnaire were formulated in such a way that it made it possible, when summing up the results, to single out and highlight the most common features of the respondents' linguistic biographies, such as intra-family communication, preschool education, school education (the language of instruction and the subject of instruction), further education. In addition, channels for learning Mari and Russian were established, depending on the place of residence of the respondents in their small homeland (rural or urban settings), as well as languages of communication with neighbours in their small homeland. A comparative analysis of a set of languages spoken by the respondents, natives of the Hill Mari district and natives of the areas where the Meadow Mari is spoken in the Republic of Mari El, was carried out. To ensure the completeness and reliability of the study, the results obtained in the sample were compared with the archival materials from the funds of the State Archive of the Republic of Mari El and focused on Hill Mari use as a language of instruction or a subject of instruction in the educational system from 1960 to 2002 (the cohort coverage in the sample).

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