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Author Ferguson, Jenanne, 1983- author.

Title Words like birds : Sakha language discourses and practices in the city / Jenanne Ferguson.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Borderlands and transcultural studies
Borderlands and transcultural studies.
Summary "An analysis of Sakha linguistic sensibilities and practices in the urban space of Yakutsk, capital of the Sakha Republic, based on research conducted in the early twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Aberdeen University, 2013, titled Khanna bardyng? = Where are you going? : rural-urban connections and the fluidity of communicative practices among Sakha-Russian speakers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: a short history of Sakha -- We have always been adaptable: frameworks for Sakha language vitality -- Sakha under the tsars and beyond: language policies and communicative norms -- Sweet cream and lingonberries: language, spirits, and sustenance -- One drop traveling along a great artery: moving the ulus to the city -- Sakhalyy in the city: language mixing and indexing authenticity -- Acquiring Russian, maintaining Sakha: language choices and life trajectorie -- Ohuokhaj in Lenin Square, hip hop in virtual Tuhulgeter: adapting new spaces for Sakha -- Conclusion: words like birds.
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Subject Yakut (Turkic people) -- Russia (Federation) -- I͡Akutsk -- Languages.
Yakut (Turkic people)
Russia (Federation) -- I͡Akutsk.
Language and languages.
I͡Akutsk (Russia) -- Languages.
Yakut language -- Russia (Federation) -- I͡Akutsk.
Yakut language.
Yakut language -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- I͡Akutsk.
Social aspects.
Russia (Federation)
Anthropological linguistics -- Russia (Federation) -- I͡Akutsk.
Anthropological linguistics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Khanna bardyng? https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018128867
ISBN 9781496212412 (electronic book)
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9781496208880
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