THE STATE AND PROBLEMS OF PRESERVING THE KHAKASS LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article observes the language situation among the rural Khakass population in the national regions of the Republic of Khakassia. In it, the researcher made an attempt to study the problems of the linguistic situation among the rural Khakass population. The relevance of the issue is related to the fact that the speakers of dialects of the Khakass language now in the village they live among the Russian-speaking population. The language environment does not allow communicating in Khakass. Therefore, the authors of the study specifically studied the functioning of the Khakass language in the Russian-speaking environment. The work presents a sociolinguistic study in places of residence of carriers of different dialects of the Khakass language. A small survey among the Khakass speakers in their own language is also held. The preliminary results of the study of the linguistic situation show that the speakers prefer Russian-speaking communication. This situation suggests that the processes of transition to passive bilingualism and communication in Russian continue. It should be said that the processes of language shift (transition to Russian communication and loss of inter-flow transmission of the language in the family) and associated changes in Khakass consciousness practically do not affect the sense of ethnic self-identification, commitment to the Khakass roots.