Turkisms in the Kadar Dialect of the Dargin Language

The article describes loanwords in one of the understudied dialects of the Dargin language - the Kadar one. Kadar population had close contacts with the Kumyks, an indigenous Turkic-speaking people of Dagestan. The fact that a lot of words in the Kadar dialect were borrowed from the Kumyk language is also explained by that Kadar is geographically located in Buynaksk District of Dagestan, i. e. far from other Dargin villages. Kadar is surrounded by villages mainly populated with Kumyks. The close relationships of the native speakers of the Kadar dialect of the Dargin language with the Turkic-language speakers resulted in borrowings of their customs, traditions and some elements of words and word-formation peculiarities. Lexical borrowings from the Kumyk language in the Kadar dialect of Dargin language have significant phonetic and semantic features as compared to turcisms of Dargwa noted in research works of Dargin scientists. The authors of the article try to trace the ways of penetrating of turcisms into the Kadar dialect. The study aims to synchronously describe different ways of phonetic, morphological, lexical assimilation of these borrowings in one of the dialects of the Dargin language. The object of the study are verbal (oral) and non-verbal texts (collected during conversations with inhabitants of Kadar District) that actualize information about the turcisms. The subject of the study are the discursive practices about the processes of penetrating of the turcisms into the dialect. The field methods are as follows: participant observation and informal conversation, the method of memory boosting performed by the author of the article. The methods of analytical treatment of the materials: structural/functional, pragmatic and discourse analysis. The authors of the article describe the processes of assimilation of the Turkic borrowings and explain some of their peculiarities. The conclusions would be useful for further theoretical researches of the Kadar dialect of the Dargin language as well as for certain applied purposes. The complex theoretical observations data about the turcisms in one of the Dargin dialects included in the article are published for the first time and can be interesting for specialists engaged in the research of languages and their understudied dialects.

Turkic languages, loanwords, Kadar dialect, Dargin language, substantives, Turkic-Kadar language contacts, language situation

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