The language situation in Yakutsk: extensive and intensive indicators of proficiency in the Yakut language

The results of sociolinguistic survey, the linguistic analysis of television broadcasters and editors’ speech in National broadcasting company "Sakha" and the data of controlled associative experiment show a slight increase of extensive and intensive indicators of Yakut language skills among the Yakuts living in Yakutsk, as well as the conditionality of this language situation indicator by parameter of age. All these reveal the urgent problem of the Yakut language reproduction by succeeding generations, the tendency of increasing intercalation influence on Yakut speech culture, transformation of native (or ethnic) language perception in Yakuts’ communicative consciousness from basic cultural to pragmatic, utilitarian. Mass violations of orthoepic norms of the Yakut language are observed when borrowing from Russian (and by Russian) foreign language vocabulary, as well as when their forms change. This occurs for objective and subjective reasons. Overall, the indicators reflect continuing stability of the Yakut language in Yakutsk.