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Abstract:
This paper examines the effects of language standardization and orthography design
on the Chukchi linguistic ecology. The process of standardisation has not taken into
consideration the gender-based sociolects of colloquial Chukchi and is based on a
grammaticaldescriptionwhich does not reflectactual Chukchi use; as a result standard
Chukchi has not gained a place in the Chukchi language ecology. The Cyrillic orthography
developed for Chukchi is also problematic as it is based on features of Russian
phonology, rather than on Chukchi itself: this has meant that a knowledge of written
Chukchi is dependent on a knowledge of the principles of Russian orthography. The
aspects of language planning have had a large impact on the pre-existing Chukchi
language ecology which has contributed to the obsolescence of the colloquial
language.
