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TO THE QUESTION OF THE INVOLUTION OF THE GERMAN SPOKEN FORMS OF THE RUSSIAN GERMANS // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2018. Issue 1 (19). P. 76-83

The description of the processes of language death is one of the most important problems in the study of endangered languages. This article highlights the current state of research on language death in Russia and abroad. The analysis of the dynamics of disintegration of small language forms in places of compact residence of German immigrants is of particular interest. On the basis of primary data, the paper proposes diagnosis of the processes of language death of the second type (involution) based on the example of the decay of German spoken forms used by the representatives of Russian Germans in the Tomsk region.

Keywords: involution, language death, Russian Germans, German spoken forms, Russian-German bilingualism, enlarged intra-extralinguistic approach