Doukhobor Russian (South East Slavic), Salish (Sinixt, SENĆOŦEN [Sənčáθən, Sénəčqən]), Standard Russian, Ritual Language, ქართული ენა [kharthuli εna, Kartvelian], and Altaic (Turco-Tataric – татарлар)
Journal: Taal en tongval
Year: 2019

Due to the 250-year status of their language as an oral language (but see below the reference to Georg Brandes [1888]) the only hard evidence we have just what the Doukhobors’ language was like, are the interviews conducted with Doukhobor elders in the 1960’s, i.e., those speakers who had brought the language with them in their mass migration to Canada in 1899. Some glimpses can also be gained by the study of their ritual texts (psalms, prayers, and hymns) that fortunately had been collected and