ЕТНОЛИНГВИСТИЧЕН ПОГЛЕД КЪМ ЛЕКСИКАТА НА ТРАДИЦИОННАТА НАРОДНА КУЛТУРА НА БЪЛГАРИТЕ МЮСЮЛМАНИ ОТ КСАНТИЙСКО
AN ETHNOLINGUISTIC VIEW OF THE LEXIS OF THE TRADITIONAL FOLK CULTURE OF THE MUSLIM BULGARIANS FROM XANTHI

Summary/Abstract: The article examines individual fragments of the traditional folk culture and the corresponding dialect vocabulary of Muslim Bulgarians from Northern Greece, Xanthi, through the prism of ethnolinguistics. The author, who is a representative of the Moscow Ethnolinguistic School founded by academician N. I. Tolstoy, explores culture as an overall picture of the world in the unity of all its forms – verbal (dictionary and folk-lore texts), actional (rituals) and mental (beliefs). On the basis of expedition materials collected personally in 2018–2019, the author sketches the current cultural and linguistic situation in the region, which is characterized by multilingualism. Special attention is paid to the terminology belonging to the sphere of calendar customs and folk mythology. So far, the author has come to the conclusion that the analyzed customs and beliefs, as well as their vocabulary, are a multi-layered and multicultural phenomenon including archaic linguistic relics and Christian and Muslim representations and symbols, which interact with each other, creating the unique cultural mosaic of the Southern Rhodopes.

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