Russian Speech in Kalmykia: History and Current State

Abstract

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Regional Peculiarities Of Spoken Russian Language (Republic Of Kalmykia Case)

“…The language situation in the Republic Kalmykia, where 89 nationalities are living, is determined by the factor that both languages -Russian and Kalmykare officially declared as the State languages that is caused a great number of the Kalmyks who have a high level of commands in Russian. This results in weakening the south Russian dialect, in the linguistic influence zone in which the Republic is located (Esenova, 2015).…”