Language biography of German dialect speakers from Kozhevnikovo village of the Tomsk region

The article reveals the results of the study which presented the analysis of the metalinguistic data collected during the fieldworks and modeling the history of language / languages development of «middle-aged» group of German dialect speakers from Kozhevnikovo village of the Tomsk region. A new term «language biography» which is new in Russian linguistics is introduced and defined; the topicality of the conducted study is underlined in terms of a further research of minority languages.