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The website “Minority languages of Russia” is being developed by the Laboratory for Study and Preservation of Minority Languages in the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences). It is a publicly available resource which provides information on structure and functioning of the minority languages of Russia and their local varieties.

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Votic

Dynamics of the Development of the Language Situation. Census Data from 1926, 2002, and 2010.

Bezhta

Three dialects are distinguished in Bezhta: the proper Bezhta dialect, the Khasharkhotin dialect, and the Tlyadal dialect.

Negidal

Darya Ivanovna Nadeina shows birch-bark utensils and explains how they are made and what they are used for.

Uralic

Interactive Tree of Languages, Dialects, and Vernaculars

Kumandy

Phonetics. Transcription symbols of the International Phonetic Association (IPA) are used.