ИСТИНА

The report “Early age ethnic language acquisition in the conditions of the Mari internal diaspora in Moscow region” is based on the author’s own sociolinguistic survey and deals with the problem of intergenerational transmission of the ethnic language in the Mari diaspora in Moscow region and the possible ways of acquiring the Mari language by the migrants’ children at an early age, when residing far from their small native land and consequently, out of the language environment, in urban multilingual and multicultural background.