More than 2200 schoolchildren from Udmurtia stopped studying the Udmurt language this academic year

This happened after language learning became mandatory, explained the deputy chairman of the regional government. Tatyana ChurakovaWhen schools transition Udmurtia According to the federal state standard, 70% of parents choose a 5-day school week. 

“We will have to continue to work on this, as it means that the Udmurt language and literature will be taught in the curriculum for one hour a week,” "Churakova said, clarifying that the region has the capacity to teach four hours of Udmurt language per week.

According to statistics cited by Kommersant, this year the Udmurt language is being studied in Udmurtia 13,7 thousands students, Tatar - 572 man, Mari - 143, and Russian is almost 43,3 thousands children in 277 schools.

While the Udmurt language is losing popularity among children in Udmurtia, plans are underway in Yakutia to launch an online platform for learning the Yakut language.

“Work is underway to create a ‘Corpus of the Yakut language’ with many additional functions that can help discover many previously unexplored features of the language, — Vasily Bochkarev, a junior research fellow at the Institute of Humanitarian Research and Problems of Indigenous Peoples of the North of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told TASS. "The project includes texts in the Yakut language across various literary genres, using filters and analyzers that allow for processing millions of data points in seconds, something previously impossible when working with a traditional card index."

A trial version of the project will be released by the end of this year, and the project itself will be launched in 2024.