Wheeled vehicles of the indigenous people of the Minusinsk basin sourced from the Khakas vocabulary Cover Image

Колесные повозки коренного населения Минусинской котловины по материалам лексики хакасского языка
Wheeled vehicles of the indigenous people of the Minusinsk basin sourced from the Khakas vocabulary

Author(s): Yuriy Esin
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук
Keywords: a wheeled vehicle; Southern Siberia; the Minusinsk basin; the Khakas; the Khakas language

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the research of the Khakas language vocabulary on animal-drawn wheeled transport within theframeworks of a historical research. A list of names of the wheeled vehicles and their parts was compiled in the article. Identificationwith the historical types of transport used in the Minusinsk basin was made. In diachronic aspect three main historicallevels were distinguished in the article: 1) an ancient layer dated back to the Old Turkic epoch; 2) a late layer connectedwith the influence of the Turkic peoples of Western Siberia in the late Middle Ages; 3) new layer formed in the course of interactionwith the Russian culture and language in the XVIII — the beginning of the XXth century.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 02 (17)
  • Page Range: 20-35
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Russian