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Nikolay Vakhtin. Jazyki narodov severa v XX veke: Ocherki jazykovogo sdviga [Languages of the Peoples of North in the 20th century: Outline of the language shift]. St. Petersburg: Dmitry Bulanin, 2001. Pp. 344. HB, n.p.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2003
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It would be unjust to say that languages of ethnic minorities of Siberia and the Far East of Russia have not received the attention of linguists and anthropologists, yet until now there has been no book that has gathered, classified, and compared data on the sociolinguistic situation of these minorities over the whole Soviet period. This is the topic of Vakhtin's new book. It deals almost exclusively with the exterior aspect of the history of the languages; it does not analyze structural changes in the languages themselves.
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