Affiliation:
1. University of Chicago Department of Linguistics Chicago, Illinois USA
2. M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University The Arctic Linguistic Ecology Lab Yakutsk Russia
3. M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University Institute of Modern Languages and Regional Studies Yakutsk Russia
4. M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Peoples of the North-East Yakutsk Russia
5. M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University Department of Northern Filology, Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Peoples of the North Yakutsk Russia
Abstract
Abstract
The Dolgan language is a Turkic variety, closely related to Sakha but differing from it due to contact, primarily with Evenki (Tungusic). We analyze the linguistic identity of translocal Dolgan communities in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Anabar District, which is home to a minority of the larger group of Dolgan people. Linguistically, Anabar Dolgan is best classified as a northern Sakha variety with significant lexical borrowings from Tungusic. Anabar Dolgans consider it a separate language, and see themselves as speaking Dolgan, Sakha, or a mixture of the two. Their strong sense of Dolgan identity comes from an attachment to language, culture, and territory, an identity reinforced by social ties with and ongoing migrations to and from the Taimyr Dolgan-Nenets District, home to the majority of Dolgans. Data come from sociolinguistic questionnaires, structured interviews, and linguistic elicitation with 50 respondents, and a subset of open-ended interviews.
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