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Four expeditions in the period
between 1997 and 2003 under the supervision of Professor Christian Sappok (Ruhr
University, Bochum).
June 1997.Expedition
to the settlement of Russkoye Ustye on lower Indigirka (Allajkhovskiy district
of Yakutia). 24 hours of digital recording from 14 speakers , age between 27 and
78.
April 2000.
Expedition to the settlement of Pokhodsk on lower Kolyma (Niznekolymsky district
of Yakutia). 28 hours of digital recording from the inhabitants of Pokhodsk and
the neighboring township Chersky, formerly inhabitants of Pokhodsk (20 speakers,
age between 45 and 83). Recording were also made from Even and from Yukagir
speakers (in native languages and in Russian).
July 2001.
Expedition to Kamchatka, townships Milkovo and Tigil known as Russian
strongholds since the 18th century. 38 hours of digital recordings
were made from 19 local inhabitants born between 1912 and 1937. The recorded
data includes also texts in Itelmen and Russian speech of Itelmen speakers.
March 2003.
The second expedition to the settlement of Russkoye Ustye on lower Indigirka (Allajkhovskiy
district of Yakutia). 40 hours of digital recording from 20 speakers, born
between 1936 and 1992. A two-day expedition to the bilingual Yakut-Russian
commmunity of Sinsk, on the Lena river, some 250 km south from Yakutsk.
5 speakers (10 hours) born between 1927 and 1940.
Case 1. Russkoye Ustye. Yakutia, the
watershed of Indigirka.
The expeditions of 1997, 2003
Case 2. Pokhodsk, Cherskiy. Yakutia,
the waterdhed of Kolyma.
The expedition of 2000.
Case 3. Milkovo, a township in the
central part of Kamchatka.
The expedition of 2001.
Case 4. The township of Tigil in the
western part of Kamchatka.
The expedition of 2001.
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