Social and linguistic research of not dominating language: on problem of language situation monitoring in Buryatia

The article reviews features of social and linguistic inspection on the example of Buryat language. The article analyzes the questionnaire which was carried out every ten years since the end of the 1980s mainly in the territory of ethnic Buryatia: types of questionnaires are shown, their contents and transformation depending on poll are described, the assessment of volume and time of their filling, work of the interviewer is given, specifics of processing of questionnaires are shown. The author reveals possibilities of the monitoring analysis of modern language situation in the Republic of Buryatia on the basis of the obtained data on examples of change of indicators.