- PII
- S241377150000616-0-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S0000616-0-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume 71 / Issue 3
- Pages
- 29-38
- Abstract
- After the collapse of the Soviet Union a great many Russian people found themselves not in Russia, but abroad, where the Russian language received different legal and actual status. Within the recent 20 years, the Russian language in independent countries has been developing under foreign conditions. However, the Russian language variants functioning in the near abroadstill lack characteristic spertaining to national variants of the language. For a number of reasons, these variants cannot be referred to as insular languages, either. According to their multiple linguistic and sociolinguistic parameters, they might be described as regiolects of the Russian language. On the other hand, since these variants function in independent states, the latter term is not fully appropriate, and we suggest using the term statolects.
- Keywords
- Russian language, former Soviet republics, national variants of the language, sociolinguistic status, regiolect, statolect
- Date of publication
- 01.05.2012
- Year of publication
- 2012
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 1208