The Sociolinguistic status quo on the Taimyr Peninsula

Abstract

The following article presents a basic overview of the current sociolinguistic status quo on the Taimyr Peninsula. The picture presented in this article is to some degree impressionistic, as during the author’s stay on the Taimyr Peninsula (2006, 2008, 2011) documentation of morphosyntax and reconstruction of language contacts have dominated fieldwork; data on the sociolinguistic status quo were not gathered separately. The data on which this survey is based derives from conversations with speakers of all Taimyrian indigenous languages and several interviews with selected members of the local native intelligentsia, enhanced with observations. Although focusing on the situation of the Samoyedic languages Tundra Nenets, Tundra Enets, Forest Enets and Nganasan, some comments on the current state of Taimyrian Evenki and Dolgan are included as current problems affect all local native languages equally.

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