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Are Russia's minority languages being used in public in their respective regions? For example, can you expect a police officer to speak Tatar language in Tatarstan or Chechen language in Chechnya? Or can you go to a shop and get by only by using particular minority language?
Are Russia's minority languages being used in public in their respective regions? For example, can you expect a police officer to speak Tatar language in Tatarstan or Chechen language in Chechnya? Or can you go to a shop and get by only by using particular minority language?
A complex issue. Depends where: in some places you hear the minority languages a lot, in some you don't. I visited Kazan (capital of Tatarstan), and while I heard a lot of people speaking Tatar, and saw a lot of signs in that language, Russian definitely predominated in the city. But the situation in the countryside can be completely different.
It depends on the region. Yakut is used in Yakutia everywhere. A law was passed in 1990 that only Yakut speakers were eligible to run for Parliament. In many other places, the Native language is used mostly in private. In many areas, only those over 40 or 50 speak the Native language, and it's rare for younger people to do so.
I think that in the countryside those minority languages are more used than in the big cities. And some of them are probably in a better situation than others (e.g. Yakut, Chechen, language of Tyva...). I read that in the Caucasian republics like Dagestan, North Ossetia, as well as in Chuvashya, Mari-El, Tatarstan they mostly speak Russian in the cities.
Hi, my name is Sergey. Majority in Russia speak Russian. Languages of indigenous peoples are not popular. Local languages are known in Khakassia, Altai, Buryatia, Tuva, but all speak Russian. There are local television channels in the minority language, signs are duplicated in two languages that's all. All know the Russian language in Russia. Problems with communication will not be
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