Abstract
The language situation is one of the key concepts of sociolinguistics. Various conditions of the formation of a particular language situation determine its originality and singularity. The description of each specific language situation is necessary with a holistic typological description of language situations. In this paper, the focus is made upon the present language situation of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region - the largest administrative-territorial unit of the PRC. The Interest in this language situation was sparkled by its uniqueness, extraordinary ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity. In addition, it is Xinjiang that hosts the largest Russian-speaking diaspora in comparison with other regions of China. This study is aimed to analyze the quantitative characteristics of the present language situation of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region whose integral part is the Russian language. The study has found the number of idioms functioning in the region, their demographic and communicative power, as well as the number of functionally dominant idioms of the present-day language situation in the XUAR, which as a result determine its quantitative characteristics. In addition, the place of the Russian idiom among other idioms of the analyzed language situation has been revealed.
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