The World Practice of Development of Writing for Non-Literate Cultures

Abstract

The article focuses on foreign scientific practices in the creation of orthographies for unwritten languages in order to find a high-quality and effective algorithm for the Enets writing approval and development. The review of modern foreign researches is dominated by the analysis of the publications issued by the scholars of SIL international, the most experienced and authoritative organization in this field. The first part of the article gives a description of the algorithm for the development of written languages for the indigenous peoples, the description being recognized as the most promising at the beginning of the 21 st century. It highlights the stages, principles and scientific attitudes, lists linguistic and non-linguistic challenges that arise in the course of the development of writing. The second part analyses specific cases of a) the SIL scholars' successful creation of writing for the Mexican languages, in particular, for the Mixtec language; b) unsuccessful attempts to create the writing for the people of Darma living in Nepal on the border with India. It is concluded that modern techniques in the field of orthographies can be used to create a written Enets language. Keywords: orthography for unwritten languages, unwritten languages, a case study of the development of writing in the 21 st century, the Enets language. The reported study was funded by the Krasnoyarsk Regional Fund of Science within the "Development of scientific and methodological support for a unique cultural heritage preservation for the Ket and Enets ethno-cultural groups of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East living on the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Krai" research project. Research area: culturology.

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“…Research activity on the study of indigenous peoples living in the territory of Krasnoyarsk Krai is carried out by the scientists of Siberian Federal University. There are studies on the issues of global transformations and their influence on the indigenous peoples of the north of Krasnoyarsk Krai (Amosova et al, 2019;Seredkina, Strucheva, 2018;Koptseva, 2014Koptseva, , 2017Koptseva, Reznikova, 2015;Zamaraeva et al, 2019;Zamaraeva, Sergeeva, Fil'ko, 2018;Kolesnik et al, 2018;Sitnikova, 2018;Kistova et al, 2018).…”