For Indigenous Families in Russia, Keeping Language Alive Is an Impossible Task

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For Indigenous Families in Russia, Keeping Language Alive Is an Impossible Task

Friday marks the 25th annual International Mother Language Day, a holiday established by UNESCO to “underscore the role of languages in promoting inclusion.”  Russia has 155 living and 15 extinct languages native to the country as classified by the Linguistics Institute of the Russian Academy of Science.   While Russian is named as the sole “state-founding” language in the country’s Constitution, more than 30 languages of minoritized Indigenous …