The indigenous peoples’ of Siberia languages as an object of ethnic linguistics and ethnic translation studies

Abstract

One of the modern humanities’ peculiarities is a steady interest in the cultures and languages of the indigenous peoples of the world and, in particular, the peoples of Siberia. The key research objects in this area are cultural information and memory, availability and active functioning of which provide cultural identity and preservation possibility of unique ethnic groups with the recently created written systems in most cases. The collection and study of relevant ethnotexts provides archiving, revitalization and further generation of cultural information and memory of small-numbered ethnic groups. Among the ethnic disciplines studying Siberian ethnotexts, which are the material of the present research, a special place is occupied by Ethnic Linguistics and Ethnic Translation Studies, applying to ethnomaterial on the basis of the universal scientific principle of complementarity (following N. Bohr’s ideas) and in many ways contributing to the preservation of the linguistic and cultural diversity of Russia and the whole multicultural and polylingual world.