COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF COLOUR TERMS IN MARI AND KHANTY RIDDLES

Abstract

The article is a study of color words in the Mari and Khanty riddles, an ancient genre of folklore, which reflects not only the modern state of the language, but, possibly, has preserved outdated or rarely used color names. The aim of this work is a comparative analysis of color words in the Mari and Khanty riddles. The scientific novelty of the study consists in contrastive analysis of Mari and Khanty riddles containing color words within the framework of semantic and cultural approaches. The findings of the research show both semantic similarities (for example, in riddles about a hare, fire, mushrooms, rays of the sun), and national-cultural differences between the Mari and Khanty pictures of the world, implemented in the text of riddles (for example, in riddles about a bear, moon, sun, birch).