Abstract
Currently, the process of globalization, intense intercultural contacts, changes in social structure, and internationalization of higher education influence inter-ethnic relations, ethnic identity, as well as language changes. These processes can be observed among the Russian-Germans living in the territory of the Kirov region. Their investigation started in 1999 and is currently going on. The relevance of the study is due to the significance of the linguistic interaction at the present stage of the German language development in Russia, where for decades the German language has been developing and changing in linguistic enclaves environment. In this regard, this paper aims to explore ethnic and linguistic identity of German bilinguals living in the environment of a foreign language, different dialect, or different confession in isolation from the main ethnic array. The leading methods in the study were socio-differentiated analysis, as well as comparative and statistical methods used while correlating the dialect systems under review to other German dialectal systems, literary German language, as well as with the Russian language. In the study, we came to the conclusion that the priority layer in the structure of the ethnic identity of Russian Germans in the Kirov region includes the following distinctive features: common territory, language, religion, family life, folklore, crafts, norms of behavior, common historical destiny and common psychological makeup. The language of the German ethnic minority, who live in the territory of the Kirov region, is unique and peculiar. It is characterized, above all, by mixed dialects in a foreign language environment and by a variety of their existing forms of. The paper is of practical value to scholars dealing with the German island dialects.
Highlights
1.1 Introduction into the ProblemThe project focuses on the problem of cherishing history, culture of small ethnic groups
At the same time, according to the data obtained in the laboratory of experimental phonetic and perceptual research of languages, belonging to various typological systems (Vyatka State University of Humanities), the German settlers are proficient in Russian in all its varieties and use it in various situations of everyday life that allows you to watch the "forcing out" of the German language by the Russian language in the region of interest
We can talk about Russian-German bilingualism, which should be characterized as an individual, non-contact, artificial, auxiliary type of bilingualism, which means that the German language functions as a foreign language and is already a non-native, second language
Summary
The project focuses on the problem of cherishing history, culture of small ethnic groups. There has been a sudden flurry of academic interest in the problem of the language and environment interconnection This problem caught the interest of scientists who worried about the future life of the national minority groups in Russia and the CIS countries and stimulated further research into their history, culture, and language. The fate of the languages, their current and future being is the top priority task for humans, because the language is the world philosophy and the world knowledge system imprinted in its linguistic structure and rules In this meaning the language is the world itself, and its dying-out is going to be irreparable loss for to the language environment. The importance of the research in this area is IJALEL 5(6):152-157, 2016 incontestable, as recording the unique world view of the Russian Germans gives an opportunity to save it This process is becoming extremely difficult because of gradual dying-out of these dialects
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