Cognate languages: an unequal afﬁnity.The community of ethnic Serbs in Moscow
This paper focuses on the ethnic Serbian community of Moscow. Тhe article focuses on various social and linguistic aspects which create the particular linguistic proﬁle of local citizens of Serbian descent and determine the degree of the preservation of ethnic language. The survey took place in 2017-2018 in Moscow within the framework of the project “Languages of Moscow”. The research was conducted on the basis of the interviews with Serbian native speakers residing in Moscow, of web sources, linguistic literature, census data and author’s personal experience. The aim of the study is to describe some basic characteristics of Serbian-Russian interaction and provide an ethnolinguistic “portrait” of the Serbian community in Moscow.