russkogovojrschije and russkojazychnyje

[Alina Israeli]

I would like to somewhat  disagree (which does not mean that I am  
correct). I think this is an attempt to make a calque from French  
(whether he knows it or not) where they distinguish Francophone and  
Francofile, those who speak it natively vs. those who are not native  
but fluent and certainly not a Francophobe.

So, I think they want to make sure that there are a lot more  
Russophone, i.e. educated native speakers, not just speakers of  
kitchen Russian, and against their assimilation into other cultures.

On May 31, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Olga Meerson wrote:

>  The basic difference is simple: russkogovoriashchie are people who  
> speak Russian but don't read or write in it and have had no, or  
> have been deprived of, education in Russian, books, papers, all the  
> works. Simply illiterate heritage speakers. Eusskoiazychnye are  
> literates.
> o.m.
>


Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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