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Parts of chapter 3 originally appeared as “Language Has a Spirit: Sakha (Yakut) Language Ideologies and Aesthetics of Sustenance,” Arctic Anthropolgy 53, no. 1 (January 2016): 95–111; and parts of chapter 5 originally appeared as “Code-Mixing among Sakha-Russian Bilinguals in Yakutsk: A Spectrum of Features and Shifting Indexical Fields,” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 26, no. 2 (August 2016): 141–61.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ferguson, Jenanne, 1983–, author.

Title: Words like birds: Sakha language discourses and practices in the city / Jenanne Ferguson.

Other titles: Khanna bardyng?

Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [2019] | Series:

Borderlands and transcultural studies | Revision of author’s thesis (doctoral)—Aberdeen University, 2013, titled Khanna bardyng? = Where are you going?: rural-urban connections and the fluidity of communicative practices among Sakha-Russian speakers. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018028397

ISBN 9781496208880 (cloth: alk. paper)

ISBN 9781496212399 (epub)

ISBN 9781496212405 (mobi)

ISBN 9781496212412 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Yakut (Turkic people)—Russia (Federation)—Yakutsk—Languages. | Yakutsk (Russia)—Languages. | Yakut language—Russia (Federation)—Yakutsk. | Yakut language—Social aspects—Russia (Federation)—Yakutsk. | Anthropological linguistics—Russia (Federation)—Yakutsk.

Classification: LCC P35.5.R9 .F47 2019 | DDC 306.442/94332—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018028397

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