A Broken Promise : A Hundred Years of Language Policy in Kalmykia

@article{Reznik2013ABP,  title={A Broken Promise : A Hundred Years of Language Policy in Kalmykia},  author={Vladislava Reznik},  journal={Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage},  year={2013},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:250472051}}
This article analyses language policy in Soviet Kalmykia in the 1920s-40s. It argues that the ill-thought alphabet reforms which entailed three changes of the Kalmyk language script in less than fifteen years contributed to the general failure of the rootinisation policy in the republic and resulted in a decline in Kalmyk language proficiency among its native speakers and a disruption in its written culture. Exacerbated by the deportation of Kalmyks in 1943 to Siberia, the Kalmyk language… 

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