The article presents a methodology for assessing the social impact on language and culture based on sociolinguistic approaches. While Arctic urbanization fosters intercultural dialogue, it simultaneously threatens indigenous languages with assimilation. Current Arctic human development reports prioritize socio-economic issues, largely ignoring the ethnocultural and linguistic situations. Although Russian Federation has officially recognized “ethnological expertise” as a state policy tool, it lacks a framework for evaluating linguistic well-being.
The authors argue that language is a critical social indicator of human development and cultural identity. The research aims to develop universal, dynamic, and data-driven indicators to quantify “language comfort”. This comfort is directly linked to socio-economic factors like labor migration and industrial development, which can lead to language monopolies and the loss of smaller languages. The research is based on 2023–2024 fieldwork in cities like Anadyr and Yakutsk, involving 800 surveys and 41 interviews.
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彼特克耶娃（俄罗斯科学院语言学研究所）、费丽波娃（北方少数民族人文研究所）
Bitkeeva Aysa, Dr.Sc. Phil., Prof.
Head of the Research Center on Ethnic and Language Relations, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Research areas include sociolinguistics, linguistic theory and cross-cultural communication. The author of about 160 articles and 16 monographs.
A.N. Bitkeeva has made a significant contribution to theoretical and applied sociolinguistics, in particular, developed new approaches of study of functional development of ethnic languages of the Russian Federation, sociolinguistic typology of language situations, language policy in Russia and foreign countries, sociolinguistic prognosis, etc.
A.N. Bitkeeva is the editor-in-chief of the Russian academic journal “Sociolinguistics”, a member of the editorial board of the Chinese academic journal “Language Policy and Language Education”, and other Russian and foreign academic journals. A.N. Bitkeeva is actively involved in teaching in Russian (Professor of Moscow State Pedagogical University, professor of Kalmyk State University, Professor of Oryol State University named after I.S. Turgenev) and foreign universities (Justus Liebig University of Giessen, 2016-2018; University of Tokyo, 2003; Chonbuk University of South Korea, 2008-2013, etc.).
Filippova Viktoriya, PhD on Historical Sciences
Head of the Arctic Researches Department, The Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Yakutsk, Russia). Research areas include historical geography, indigenous peoples of the North and the Arctic, traditional land use, historical and cultural heritage, GIS mapping, ethnological expertise. The author of about 150 articles and 8 monographs.
V.V. Filippova has made the ethnodemographic development of indigenous small-numbered peoples of Northern Yakutia during the XX century. A methodology for cartographic support of conducting ethno-logical expertise in Yakutia using GIS technologies is proposed. The results of the developed methodology are presented as a system of evaluation indicators and a series of thematic maps on traditional nature use by indigenous small-numbered peoples of Northern Yakutia.
V.V. Filippova is expert of Russian federal programs "Step into the Future" and "Step into the Future Profession" in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). Participation in expertise and conducting Ethnological expert reviews on the territory of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
V.V. Filippova is Associate Professor at the the Ecology and Geography Department of North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.
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