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Language status not up-to-date

Satanei Zhinova, Fri, 2022-11-18 11:22
Regarding: 
Language Status
ISO 639-3: 
kbd

Language status for both Kabardian and Adyghe are not-up-date.

UNESCO defined both as vulnerable in 2010, source: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026/PDF/187026eng.pdf.multi.

Russian census from years 2002 and 2010 show, that the number of speakers descreased by more than 10% (2021 cencus results are still pending), source: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%A0%D0%B...

There are also research papers illustrating decrease of language use in families from 2001 to 2014 by 50%, source: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/osnovnye-faktory-vitalnosti-respublika...

There is also a new legislation passed in Russia in 2018 that changes the status of studying minority languages in schools from "mandatory" to "optional", source: https://www.dw.com/ru/%D0%BD%D0%B5-%D0%B2-%D1%83%D1%89%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1...

6a or 6b for both Kabardian and Adyghe would probably be more accurate. Thank you.

Editorial Action

We will update the language use and vitality for Kabardian [kbd] in the Russian Federation, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.

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