Features of the Legal Status of Languages in the Polyethnic Subjects of the Russian Federation
Russia is one of the most multinational states in the world. Over the centuries of its existence, it has developed many valuable rules for the organization of interethnic relations for the cohabitation of a large number of very different peoples. A significant part of these norms relate to the regulation of issues in the language sphere, since language is the most important attribute of an ethnic group. There are more than 150 languages in the Russian Federation today. They are all different. Among them there are languages spoken only by individual villages, languages that are used by the population of one or more subjects of the Federation, there is Russian, which is the state language of Russia; there are non-written, new-written, young-written, old-written languages. Such diversity requires perfect legal regulation, a clear definition of the legal status of languages, and the differentiation of the spheres of their use. The article examines the peculiarities of legal regulation in the language sphere in the multiethnic subjects of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the legal status of languages in the polyethnic subjects of the Russian Federation.