LEXICON OF POSTNATAL RITES IN THE TUVINIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article is written with the financial support of the RFBR grant “Transformation processes in the onomastics of the peoples of Central Asia: history and modernity (on the example of Tuva, Tofalaria, Kalmykia and Mongolia” (No. 19-012-00073). The vocabulary of postpartum rituals in the Tuvan language is a relatively closed lexical-semantic group that has evolved over several centuries. At the moment, it is observed that many words and stable phrases leave the active vocabulary of the Tuvan language, while others are used as dialectisms or are supplanted by new formations. The relevance of the study is due to the need to systematize and correct the vocabulary of postpartum rituals in the Tuvan language. The researcher uses materials from the language of ethnic Tuvans – Tsengel, Tsagaan-Nuur (Mongolia) and Kok Monchak (China), compactly living outside Tuva in the indicated countries.