For the second year, the staff of the UNESCO Department of the North-Eastern Federal University of Yakutia go on expeditions to places of indigenous peoples' of the Far North habitation, and collect materials for the Arctic multilingual portal at arctic-megapedia.com. This fall, the researchers visited Dudinka and Anadyr in Chukotka.
According to the head of the UNESCO Department Anatoly Zhozhikov, the university staff recorded voices of 23 representatives of the Nenets, Nganasan, Dolgan, Evenki and Enets peoples in the capital of Taimyr.
In addition, scientists of the North-Eastern Federal University have agreed to cooperate with Taimyr College in the field of research, educational, cultural and educational activities and work together to collect materials and compile a digital collection of languages and cultures of indigenous peoples of the Arctic.
During the three-year project of digitalization of the heritage of the small peoples of the region, it was planned to record and preserve the sounding speech in the languages of the inhabitants of the Arctic, to create a basis for studying these languages, the history and culture of the native peoples, news.sgnorilsk.ru reports.
The North-Eastern Federal University reported that the material collected during the autumn expedition to Taimyr will add content to the Arctic multilingual portal www.arctic-megapedia.com, in which all 40 indigenous tribes of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation are represented in eleven sections.
Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished
