Since the end of the Soviet period, usage of the Sakha (Yakut) language has become once again more widespread in its usage in both the public and private spheres in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. Language ideologies that circulated in the Soviet era focused on the rodnoi iazyk (Russian: native language); this paper examines the contact and interplay of these ideologies with indigenous Sakha beliefs about the nature of language and the reciprocal relationship between a speaker and their language(s), which involves mutual sustenance and protection. The concept of agency in language is discussed, in light of both the belief in the agentive powers possessed by the tyl ichichite (Sakha: spirit of language), and in terms of how bilingual Sakha-Russian speakers make choices about their communicative practices in terms of style and register, which has repercussions for the sustainability of the Sakha language as a whole.

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语言有精神：萨哈（雅库特）语言意识形态和维持美学

自苏联时期结束以来，萨哈（雅库特）语言的使用再次在萨哈雅库特共和国的公共和私人领域中广泛使用。苏联时代流传的语言意识形态集中在Rodnoi iazyk（俄语：母语）上。本文研究了这些意识形态与萨哈土著人关于语言性质以及言语者与他们的语言之间的相互关系的相互联系和相互作用，这涉及到相互的维持和保护。讨论了语言中的代理概念，同时考虑了对Tyl ichichite（萨哈语：语言的精神）所拥有的代理能力的信念，以及双语萨哈语和俄语的讲者如何根据语言选择交际方式。样式和寄存器