Functioning of New Written Majoritarian Languages of Dagestan in the Sphere of School Education and in the Periodical Press
Kirilenko Svetlana Vladimirovna
Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Submitted: 12.10.2020
Abstract. The research objectives are as follows: to analyse the modern state of new written majoritarian languages of Dagestan and to reveal current tendencies in this sphere. Scientific originality of the paper lies in the fact that the author for the first time examines functioning dynamics of the languages under study in the sphere of school education and in the periodical press over a quarter of a century, compares recent data with the data of 1995. The research findings are as follows: the author traces functioning dynamics of the languages under study in the sphere of school education and in the mass media sphere, which allows concluding on their actual vitality. Relying on the findings, the researcher identifies possible factors influencing language vitality.
Key words and phrases: младописьменные языки, функционирование языков, сфера образования, сфера СМИ, языковая витальность, new written languages, functioning of languages, sphere of education, mass media sphere, language vitality
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