I find this stuff interesting.
I met a guy fro Georgia who said the same thing as Bald and Bankrupt. Younger people are taught Georgian and English while older people were taught Georgian and Russian. Eli from Russia visited Kazakhstan. Teenage boys followed her. There is only the official Kazakh language. BUT the kids said they attend either Kazakh-English schools or Kazakh-Russian schools. Eli grew up speaking Russian and Tatar bit her Tatar skills lapsed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskARussian/comments/1fw288o/is_it_true_that_young_people_of_ethnic_minorities/Is it true that young people of ethnic minorities only speak Russian? ...
The situation is different everywhere.
Generally the 'Muslim' languages are more viable, as these peoples culturally are less integrated with Russians.
Chechnya, Tatarstan, Tuva, Udmurtia
Chechens don't like using their own language in its written form for some reason, but they widely used it in its spoken form. Often Chechens talk code-switching between Russian and Chechen.
In Tatarstan the city culture is mostly Russian-speaking, but presence of Tatar remains strong.
In Tuva it's rather the Russian language which is dying out, and the republic is predominately Tuvan-speaking.
Udmurtia is predominately Russian-speaking, and without administrative support the Udmurt language would be dead already.
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Afaik in Tatarstan tatar language was a compulsory school subject even for ethnic Russians for some period.
Back then, during my school years, the compulsory study of the Tatar language seemed to me a heavy burden.
Not only is the Tatar language quite difficult to learn and completely different from Russian (Indo-European and Altaic languages), but its compulsory study took away my study hours, which could have been spent on specialized disciplines.
That’s why studying it seemed even more burdensome to me because I considered the Tatar language to be useless in everyday life, utilitarianly dead...
