Email this article Development of Writing in 21st Century for Unwritten Language of Sakhalin Ulta People: Historical Issues and Modern Solution
- Authors: Missonova L.I.1
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- N.N. Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 3(122) (2025)
- Pages: 102-111
- Section: DESCRIPTION AND DOCUMENTATION OF LANGUAGES
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2587-6090/article/view/316626
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22204/2587-8956-2025-122-03-102-111
- ID: 316626
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The article discusses the stages of the creation of writing, as well as the history of the sociolinguistic situation. Uilta population (according to the Censuses of the Russian Federation) does not exceed four hundred people, mostly living in the Sakhalin region. At the turn of the 1930s, the USSR started the creation of writing in native languages of "the most numerous ethnic minorities of the North." Since the Uilta (also referred to as Ulta, Oroch and Oroks in various documents of the Soviet Union) did not meet this criterion, they did not have a written language until the 21st century. Currently, there is an obvious loss of the communicative function of the Uilta language. The function of maintaining the ethnic identity of the Uilta community is now the primary one.
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L. I. Missonova
N.N. Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Email: missmila@iea.ras.ru
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher, Executive Secretary
Russian Federation, MoscowReferences
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