Лексика неживой природы в составе тюрко-монгольской языковой общности
Lexicon of inanimate nature in the Turko-Mongolic language affinity

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the affinity of the Turkic and Mongoliс languages in vocabulary, the author deals with the wordsdenoting phenomena of inanimate nature. The author analyses the landscape vocabulary, the names of different types ofsoil, water objects, atmospheric phenomena, the celestial spheres etc. The data of the Khalkha Mongolian and Old WrittenMongolian languages are studied in the first place, the data of Buryat and Kalmyk are used when they exist in these languages.The data of the Old Turkic language were compared with the Mongolic ones, and presence of similar words saysabout the Turko-Mongolic lexical affinity. In most cases analysis of the common words allows to establish their Turkic origin.The large number of common words, which origin is identifed as Turkic, indicates numerous ancient contacts between theTurkic and Mongolic languages, which led to the hybridisation of the Mongolic lexicon.

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