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To make it happen, a number of wide-ranging issues will have to be addressed,
including political, state, regional, financial, technical, and organizational.
Some of these were considered by the Committee for the Small Indigenous
Peoples of the Russian North at the Federation Council (parliament’s upper
house) during its away session in Yakutsk on November 16–18, 2010.
The session focused on the use of modern information and educational
technology in preserving and advancing the native communities’ traditional
cultures and languages, with Sakha’s expertise taken as an example. It
approved all related initiatives from the North-Eastern Federal University and
incorporated them in its own Recommendations.
Here are some of the decisions made by the gathering:
• supporting the university’s idea to provide computer operating
systems with a universal keyboard layout that would include the
scripts of all indigenous languages of Russia’s Subarctic, Siberia and
Far East; providing assistance in translating this plan into reality;
• for the Education and Science Ministry to sponsor – financially
and otherwise – the North-Eastern Federal University and the
Siberian Federal University in their efforts to develop a federal Web links
page on the small indigenous peoples of Russia’s Subarctic, Siberia and
Far East;
• examining the possibility of setting up an indigenous languages
translation department at the North-EasternFederal University, so
as to create a scholarly basis for the development of translation and
interpretation from these languages.
Sufficient funding is yet to be found to ensure the implementation of all
adopted resolutions, though. With this purpose in mind, a North-Eastern
Federal University ad hoc group has been working extensively to get the above
projects included in the following republican target programmes, intended for
the year 2012 and beyond:
• Preserving, studying and advancing the official and state languages
of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in 2012 through 2016. This
programme will involve studying indigenous language scripts,
identifying those not yet represented in computer operating systems,
and devising online spelling thesauri and MS Word morphology
parsers and spell-checkers for each indigenous language;
• Developing the Republic of Sakha’s information and communication
infrastructure, where indigenous language scripts and adapted
keyboard layouts for computer operating systems could be provided,
along with support for the multilingual Web links page in Russian
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