Russian language as a link and a core for the post-Soviet countries and peoples of Russia

 
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Abstract

Russian is the state language not only in Russia, but also in many republics of the near abroad, even after the artificial disintegration of the Soviet Union. In many republics, at the same time, the state languages are also the languages of aboriginal peoples. In the conditions of coexistence of several languages for more than a hundred years, interesting relationships for the theory of language are formed: a vertical language continuum is observed, where the Russian language fulfils the role of an acrolect, local colloquialisms act as mesolects, at the same time a colloquial Russian language is formed, absorbing more and more features of local languages. Our work investigates such a variant of Russian in the conditions of Dagestani multilingualism, which acquires features of a dialect, as changes are observed at all levels of the language from phonetics to syntax.

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Keywords: Russian language, Dagestani languages, state languages, Dagestani dialect of Russian as a mesolect

Journal rubric: General and Comparative Historical Linguistics

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Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2025120105

Received 15.02.2025

Revised 28.02.2025

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For citation: Makhmudova, S.M. (2025). Russian language as a link and a core for the post-Soviet countries and peoples of Russia. Language and Text, 12(1), 45–54. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/langt.2025120105

© Makhmudova S.M., 2025

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Svetlana M. Makhmudova, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of Linguodidactics and Intercultural Communication at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Modern Communications and Management, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0220-6216, e-mail: mahmudovasm@mgppu.ru

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