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New speakers of Mari as a factor in diaspora language vitality

Rodnoy Yazyk, 2021
New speakers are a key object of sociolinguistic analysis in minority language research and an important factor in language vitality. The present article, based on a sociolinguistic survey conducted by the author among the Mari diaspora in the Moscow region, deals with the problem of new Mari speakers. These are people who seek to become members of the
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Mari language and culture preservation and popularization: Rural libraries serving long-standing Mari diaspora communities

Rodnoy Yazyk
This article is based on the findings of several research expeditions to Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, and the Sverdlovsk region of Russia. It provides information on the work of rural libraries serving the Mari populace in places where there is a high percentage of ethnic Maris, as well as on the functioning of the Mari language in media and literature ...
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THE MARI LANGUAGE IN MOSCOW: THE PROBLEM OF ETHNIC LANGUAGE PRESERVATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF INTERNAL DIASPORA

Finno-ugrovedenie, 2022
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Maris in Moscow: Diaspora ethnic identity and language loyalty

Rodnoy Yazyk. Linguistic journal, 2020
This article is based on a sociolinguistic survey conducted by the author among the Mari diaspora in the Moscow region. The article investigates the relationship between ethnic identity and language, as well as the correlation between language loyalty and the preservation of the Mari language.
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Diasporas: Thomas Pringle and Mary Prince

2019
Chapter two argues that Thomas Pringle’s experiences of exile and displacement informed his editorial contributions to The History of Mary Prince (1831), the first narrative of a black woman’s life published in Britain. While critics have looked at Pringle’s contributions to emphasize the intercultural aspects of the History and slave narratives more ...
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