SOCIOLINGUISTIC SITUATION IN THE IVANOVSKOE SETTLEMENT, SELEMDZHA DISTRICT, AMUR REGION

The article presents a sociolinguistic study of the Selemdzha Evenks. The paper gives a historical overview of establishing and development of the Ivanovskoe settlement of the Selemdzha district of the Amur Region. Statistical data on the population structure of the settlement is given. Analysis of the contemporary language situation is carried out in the place of compact settlement of the Evenks. The results clearly indicate the replacement of the Evenki language from all spheres of its use by the dominating Russian language. We also performed a pilot study of spontaneous speech of one of the few representatives of the Evenki ethnos who are fluent in their native language. Frequency and peculiarities of Russian insertions into Evenki speech are demonstrated.