Turkic kinship terminology: comparative linguistic and cultural analysis

Abstract

The article is intended to analyze and compare kinship relations in the Kazakh and Kyrgyz languages from a linguistic and cultural point of view. Kindred terminology is a part of the oldest lexical fund, and in terms of the complexity of its history, it occupies a special place in the lexical composition of the language. Kindred names are a special cultural treasure that absorbs the user's national culture, history, social position, and relationships with people, and is memorized and absorbed as a vocabulary from generation to generation. Kazakh and Kyrgyz anthroponymics contain a large number of personal names, surnames, nicknames, kindred names that have not been studied at a sufficient level. This problem shows the need to collect, systematize materials, produce various definitions and to study the relevance and history of kindred names, including the active-passive fund deeper. In this regard, the purpose of the article is to analyze the kindred names in personal names of the Kazakh and Kyrgyz languages, to determine the usage and linguistic-cultural features of relative terms in both languages. Bilingual dictionaries and previous studies were used as materials. Collection, description, comparison and analysis methods were also used in the research work. As a result of the work, the expression of kinship in the Kyrgyz and Kazakh languages was analyzed, and their features and commonalities were determined.

Key words: the Kazakh language, the Kyrgyz language, linguistic and cultural studies, comparative linguistics, kindred names.