Pre-school and Outside-school Pre-school and Outside-school Mother-Tongue Educational Mother-Tongue Educational Programmes Programmes in the Context of Selkup, Ket,Selkup, Ket, and Evenki and Evenki CommunitiesCommunities

Olga KazakevichOlga Kazakevichkazakevich.olga@gmail.com http://www.lcl.srcc.msu.ru http://minlang.srcc.msu.ru

London, SOAS, 16.04.2009London, SOAS, 16.04.2009

Data CollectionData Collection

19919988-200-20088Krasnoselkup and Pur districtsKrasnoselkup and Pur districts of Yamalo-of Yamalo-Nenets autonomous area,Nenets autonomous area,Turukhansk district andTurukhansk district andEvenki municipal district of Krasnoyarsk Evenki municipal district of Krasnoyarsk territoryterritory

2727 villages villages with Selkup, with Selkup, Ket and Evenki Ket and Evenki population were surveyedpopulation were surveyed

Language situation in the surveyed villagesLanguage situation in the surveyed villages

In all the surveyed villages, including those In all the surveyed villages, including those where the autochotonous population where the autochotonous population represents the overwhelming majority represents the overwhelming majority (Ekonda, Surinda, Chirinda), the main means (Ekonda, Surinda, Chirinda), the main means of communication both at home and in the of communication both at home and in the community life is Russian.community life is Russian.

Children able to speak

their ancestral language are scarce, they can still be

found only in one Evenki village (Sovetskaya Rechka) and in two

Selkup villages (Ratta and Tolka,Pur district), no Ket child speaks Ket.

Vanavara children’s home

Vanavara children’s home: mother tongue classes

Kindergarten in Poligus

Sovrechka children

An Evenki boy from a reindeer camp at the Lake Bolshoye Sovetskoye

Sulomai children

Kindergarten in Sulomai

Maduika children: watching people speaking Ket

Selkup children. Farkovo

A Selkup grandmotherwith her grandson. Rutta

An Evenki grandfather with his grandchildren. Surinda

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