Indigenous Languages of Siberia

Research areas:

1. Documentation and investigation of the languages and cultures of indigenous communities local to Siberia, including Kets, Selkups, Khanty, Chulym-Turkic, Nganasan, Dolgan, Shor, Evenki

Current grants and projects

1. The Grant of the Endangered Languages Fund Yale University, USA (2003) «». The source and amount of financing: Yale University,$2,500. The significance: The first Russian project in the history of this program, offering technical facilities for documentation, archiving and analysis of East-Khanty language. This language is under the threat of extinction and of typological value 
2. The collaborative project of Max Plank Institute, Leipzig and the Department of Indigenous Languages of Siberia (Tomsk State Pedagogical University) (2000-2006) «devoted to the creation of the full contextual dictionary of Ket language». The source and amount of financing: Max Plank Institute, Leipzig,?10,000. The significance: In the context of full international cooperation the realization of the world’s leading theories, methods and technologies of language documentation, linguistic material analysis and the creation of the Ket language unique dictionary. Ket language is the unique language, which is under the threat of extinction. It is of great interest in the context of world current typological investigation 
3. The Grant of the National Endowment for Humanities & National Science Foundation, USA (2005) «Documentation of Moribund Languages». The source and amount of financing: the National Humanitarian and the National Scientific Fund, USA,$12,000. The significance: The first Russian project in the history of this program, offering technical facilities for documentation, archiving and analysis of East-Khanty language. This language is under the threat of extinction and of world linguistic and anthropological value 
4. Fieldwork Grant of Rice University, USA (2000-2004) «On the documentation and description of Eastern Khanty language». The source and amount of financing: Rice University,$8,000. The significance: Documentation and linguistic material analysis of the East-Khanty language (that is under the threat of extinction) facilitated by the world advanced methods and technologies. The involving of the materials which are of overall typological value into scientific research 
5. The Grant of the Federal Agency of Education № НИР 01.01.05 (year 2005) «Research into typological characteristics of the languages and cultures of the indigenous minorities of Siberia». The source and amount of financing: The Federal Agency of Education,R100, 000. The significance: Development and implementation of the innovative methodologies of documentation and analysis in the framework of the complex program of investigation of the Siberian indigenous languages in the context of modern general typological conventions 
6. Open The Society Institute (years 2001-2003) «The Education Development in Russia (the secondary education)” “The Advanced Training of the Teachers in Indigenous Languages and Siberia at Tomsk Region” within the framework of the regional project “Forming the controlling mechanisms of the open educational environment in the region». The source and amount of financing: The "Open Society" Institute,R150,000. The significance: The promotion of teachers in Siberian indigenous languages and Siberia Studies along with advanced training activities have been developed and applied according to the priorities of open society and the language and cultural diversity preservation declared by the UN and the Government of the Russian Federation 
7. The research project of the Ministry of General and Vocational Education of the Russian Federation (years 2000-2004) «The research into the development of the Siberian indigenous languages in the context of national schools». The source and amount of financing: The Ministry of General and Vocational Education of the Russian Federation,R175,000. The significance: Studying the prerequisites for the successful operation within the framework of the priorities declared by the UN Organization and the Russian Federation Government concerning the preservation of linguistic and cultural diversity by facilitation the study of the national language and culture in school 
8. The Grant of the Federal Agency of Education № НИР 3.3.52816 (year 2005) «The Systematization and Computerization of field data on the indigenous languages of Siberia». The source and amount of financing: The Federal Agency of Education,R100, 000. The significance: Comparative analysis, adaptation, testing and introduction of the world’s advanced technologies and methods of documenting, archiving and computer processing of the data on the indigenous languages and cultures of Siberia 

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