| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Russian-speaking people of European origins are decreasing in number in Uzbekistan because of economic difficulties, but children of such people go to Russian-speaking schools and speak only Russian just as in the Soviet era. We noticed that the younger a Russian monolingual is, the closer his Russian is to the Russian lingua franca which Central Asian bilinguals speak with accent and original syntactic rules that we can never find in European languages. It is easy to explain this fact: Russian monolingual children now chat at school much more with their friends of Central Asian nations than with Russians. Thus, we can conclude that language contacts affect even the language of monolinguals and their mother tongue assimilates to the lingua franca spoken by local peoples. Elements of the local languages affect the former “dominant” language through this process, which makes them similar both phonetically and grammatically.
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