Experience in the Preservation and Development of the Evenki Language in the Evenki Municipal District of the Krasnoyarsk Krai on the Basis of the Analysis of Evenki Archival Documents

Abstract

The article presents an overview of archival documents reflecting the features of various practices of preserving and reviving the Evenki language in the Northern districts of the Krasnoyarsk Krai (based on the analysis of documents on education and enlightenment from the Evenki Archive in the Tura settlement). The relevance of the study is connected with the need to obtain the most complete information, revealing the dynamics of cultural and pedagogical practices for preserving the Northern language as the core of the culture of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Far North. The analysis of archival documents obtained during the field research conducted in Evenkia in 2018 made it possible not only to disclose the basic trends in the preservation of the Evenki language, their transformation in the period from the 1930s (years of formation of national districts) till the early 2000s, but also to determine the nature of problems of preserving the disappearing language of the Evenki ethno-cultural group at the present time. The results of field studies were processed, as well as the interpretation of the obtained data was made. The authors of the article carried out a critical analysis of the existing scientific research and summarized the conclusions connected with the solution of the problem of preserving and reviving the Evenki language. The publication of a brief summary of a large number of archival documents for the period from the 1930s until now is of special significance