Czech immigrant dialects in the Northern Caucasus and Western Siberia
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Sergej Skorvid
Abstract
The article deals with essential aspects of the sociolinguistic situation and, partly, the phonological and grammatical systems of Czech immigrants’ dialects spoken in Russia. One of the examined dialects is used in two villages near Novorossiysk and Anapa in the Northern Caucasus, and the other in the Middle Irtysh area of the Omsk Region. The dialects appeared as a result of different waves of Czech rural migration at the end of the 1860s and the start of the twentieth century. The primary purpose of this research is to describe the process of formation of the two dialects, their functioning within the community and their contact with the languages used outside, as well as external factors that contributed first to their survival and then to the breach of dialect transmission in families since the 1970s. In the process, the article outlines the main linguistic features of the two dialects, focusing on those that indicate the dialects’ origin and those that have been affected by the languages of their surroundings. The corpus of interviews with speakers of Czech heritage in Russia used in this article likely represents the largest data collection to date.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Multilingualism and minorities in the Czech sociolinguistic space: introduction
- Part I: The Czech sociolinguistic space in the Czech Republic
- The Czech language of Jews in Přemyslid Bohemia of the eleventh to fourteenth century
- The Others in the Czech Republic: their image and their languages
- Romani in the Czech sociolinguistic space
- Czech Sign Language in contemporary Czech society
- Part II: The Czech sociolinguistic space abroad
- Texas Czech Legacy Project: documenting the past and present for the future
- Czech immigrant dialects in the Northern Caucasus and Western Siberia
- Czech language minority in the South-eastern Romanian Banat
- Transnationalism and language maintenance: Czech and Slovak as heritage languages in the Southeastern United States
- Book Review
- Patrick Studer and Iwar Werlen: Linguistic diversity in Europe: current trends and discourses
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Multilingualism and minorities in the Czech sociolinguistic space: introduction
- Part I: The Czech sociolinguistic space in the Czech Republic
- The Czech language of Jews in Přemyslid Bohemia of the eleventh to fourteenth century
- The Others in the Czech Republic: their image and their languages
- Romani in the Czech sociolinguistic space
- Czech Sign Language in contemporary Czech society
- Part II: The Czech sociolinguistic space abroad
- Texas Czech Legacy Project: documenting the past and present for the future
- Czech immigrant dialects in the Northern Caucasus and Western Siberia
- Czech language minority in the South-eastern Romanian Banat
- Transnationalism and language maintenance: Czech and Slovak as heritage languages in the Southeastern United States
- Book Review
- Patrick Studer and Iwar Werlen: Linguistic diversity in Europe: current trends and discourses
