Abstract
The Estonian linguistic enclaves in Siberia consist of older settlements that date from the nineteenth century and younger ones dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A considerable number of Estonian villages have survived until today. The population of the older settlements mostly consists of representatives of the fourth or fifth resettler generations, while the younger villages are inhabited by the second and third generations. As the migrants have retained their mother tongue for more than three generations, the following discussion concentrates on the factors that either promoted the maintenance of the language, or had a contrary effect.
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