Katerina Philippou

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RUSSIAN
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• Katerina Philippou
• Georgina Koureli

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WHERE IS THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN?

• Russian is a Slavic language spoken
• Russia
• Belarus
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan

• Furthermore
• Ukraine
• Moldova
• Latvia
• Uzbekistan
• Estonia

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BY WHOM? /HOW MANY PEOPLE SPEAK IT?

• geographically widespreadEurasia
• most widely spoken --Slavic language
• the largest native language -- Europe,
• 144 million native speakersRussia
  Ukraine--Belarus.

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RUSSIAN UNDER THREAT

• One hundred and twenty languages in Russia are in
  jeopardy(15 tongues extinct)
• Atlas of the Worlds Languages in Danger
  (by UNESCO)
• the Aleut
• the Sami
• the Itelmen
• the Nivkh
• The Chukchi
• Observers fear that these languages may soon
  be assimilated in Russian and Tatar.

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• Minority languages in Russia have lost their
  importance (in everyday communication --between
  community members)
• 50 minority languages in Russia are
  moribund(Siberia, the Russian Far East, in North
  European Russia and in the Caucasus)

• All minority languages in Russia run the risk of
  disappearing
• both those that
• have tens of thousands of speakers
• and those spoken only by a few thousand or a few
  dozen people
• The most serious threat to these languages is
  that they fail to be passed down naturally from
  parents to children

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MEASURES THAT COULD PREVENT ITS EXTINCTION

• FACT
• Language is an important part of any society.
• Future generations may lose a vital part of the
  culture that is necessary to completely
  understand it.

PROBLEM Oral traditions and other inherited
knowledge are no longer transmitted among native
speakers
SOLUTIONS

• The internet can be used to raise awareness about
  the issues of language extinction and language
  preservation.

• Encourage younger generations to speak the
  language as they grow, so they will then teach
  their children the language as well.

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RUSSIAN WRITERS AND POETS

• Tolstoy
• Dostoyevsky
• Bulgakov
• Chekhov
• Bunin
• Tsvetaeva

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Quotes

• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one
  thinks of changing himself.
• The two most powerful warriors are patience and
  time.
• Music is the shorthand of emotion.
• All, everything that I understand, I understand
  only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy
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• People dont notice whether it is summer or
  winter when they are happy
• Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in
  fact, a talent you must be born with it.
• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my
  mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the
  night with the other.

Anton Chekhov
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• The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man
  who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
• Power is given only to those who dare to lower
  themselves and pick it up. Only one thing
  matters, one thing to be able to dare!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Sources

• Wikipedia
• http//www.lingvozone.com/Russian
• http//www.kwintessential.co.uk/language/about/rus
  sian.html
• http//www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Russian_language
  .aspx

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