Religiosity as a factor of language preservation

The article presents a dialectological study of the villages of Omsk region, whose inhabitants speak the Low German dialect. It also describes the factors contributing to the dialect preservation. There is an important factor of the preservation of the language in this case that is a profound religiosity. It is the religiosity that contributes to the preservation of the language, culture and traditions of the Russian Mennonites as the main components of their identity.