In the May issue of Iskra (Castlegar, British Columbia), Petro (Peter) Hlookoff writes that after the tragic loss of Alex Harshenin in 1977, 'nobody' is defending the Doukhobor dialect in the English language.
Not so. Dr. Gunter Schaarschmidt (Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria, BC) has for the past several years been studying and defending the Doukhobor-Russian language dialect.
Personally, the so-called 'Doukhobor dialect' is interesting as a minor artifact of life, but the real future is in learning Standard Russian, one of the important international languages of the world.
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Dr. Gunter Schaarschmidt |
- 2012 — Russian Language History in Canada. Doukhoboor Internal and External Migrations: Effect on language development and structure, (Chapter 10, pages 235-260) in
Russian Language Studies in North America: New Perspectives from Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, edited by Veronika Makarova. London: Anthem Press, 2012. - 2009 — English for Doukhobors: 110 Years of Russian-English Contact in Canada, Doukhobor Genealogy Website.
- 2006 — Language Shift and Text Types: Reconfiguring the Ritual Language of Doukhobor Russians in Canada
- 2004 — Four norms - one culture: Doukhobor Russian in Canada
- Doukhobor Russian, Wikipedia
Personally, the so-called 'Doukhobor dialect' is interesting as a minor artifact of life, but the real future is in learning Standard Russian, one of the important international languages of the world.
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