Open AccessThe Role of the Russian Language in the Historic and Cultural Development of the Arctic Region of the Russian Federation (as Exemplified by the Murmansk Region)
Author(s) -
Olga Nikolaevna Ivanishcheva,
Anasstasija Vjacheslavovna Koreneva,
Alexandra Vjacheslavovna Burtseva,
Tatjana Alexandrovna Rychkova
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2227-524X
DOI - 10.14419/ijet.v7i3.15.18683
Subject(s) - russian federation , russian language , ethnic group , indigenous , the arctic , state (computer science) , linguistics , geography , space (punctuation) , arctic , history , anthropology , sociology , regional science , geology , computer science , oceanography , ecology , philosophy , algorithm , biology
The article aims to analyze the functioning of the Russian language within the ethnic space of the Murmansk Region. The analysis of the state statistical and archive documents for the Murmansk Region has shown that the Russian language has dominated within the region since at least the 18th century, and this had its obvious economic and communicative advantages, in particular, in education. The Saami, the indigenous small-numbered people of the Murmansk Region, understood and mastered the conversational Russian language since the 18th century. The Russian language dominates within the current polyethnic linguistic environment of the Murmansk Region due to the numerical superiority of the Russians in the region, as well as due to its position as the language of the dominant ethnic group.