Currently there is a wave of national awakening embracing even the linguistically assimilated part of the population; it seems, however, that this movement is mainly concerned about social and ecological problems, rather than about a true revigoration of the native language.

degree of speakers' competence: mainly rudimentary, under strong interference from Russian, the principal language of the remaining speakers

There have been attempts to support the language by a written standard (in Cyrillic script).