Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol 11, No 4 (2018)

Enets Language in the Studies of Domestic and Foreign Scientists

Maria A. Kolesnik, Natalia M. Libakova, Ekaterina A. Sertakova

Abstract


The article presents a historiographical review of foreign and domestic research literature devoted   to the Enets language. The analysis of publications made it possible to identify general tendencies in the study of the Enets language, the indigenous minorities of the North, and also the vector of modern research. Modern cultural processes in the global space form and make an inexhaustible interest in the traditional cultures and, especially, in the cultures of small-numbered peoples urgent. The study  of the languages of these ethnic groups appears as one of the tasks, the solution of which will allow revitalizing native languages, as well as the values of traditional culture as a whole.