Author(s)

Veronika Makarova

Department of Religion and Culture, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

This paper introduces the history and surveys some features of Saskatchewan Doukhobor Russian, a near-extinct variety of the Russian language spoken in the Canadian prairie province of Saskatchewan. The paper also outlines the reasons for the language loss in Saskatchewan.

Doukhobor Russian; Minority Language Maintenance; Heritage Language; EndangeredLanguage; Doukhobor Studies; Slavic Studies

Makarova, V. (2012). Saskatchewan Doukhobor Russian: A Disappearing Language. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 2, 90-96. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2012.23012.