POLYSEMY OF LEXEMES IN THE CYRILLIC KYRGYZ - RUSSIAN DICTIONARY (1897 YEAR) AND THE MODERN LITERARY KAZAKH LANGUAGE

Abstract

Turkic written monuments are the repository of the culture, history, language and spirituality of the Turkic peoples, they are written in various scripts: runic, Uigur, Manichaean, Brahmi, Arabic, Latin, Armenian-Kipchak, Chagatay. Among them, the Arabic script was used for several centuries and in the late XIX and early XX centuries began to be replaces by Latin and Cyrillic. In the article, the authors describe the process of transition of Turkic languages into Latin and Cyrillic; also carry out a comparative analysis of words’ polysemy in the monument Cyrillic Kazakh Dictionary and in the modern literary Kazakh language. The authors reveal the semantic matches of the lexemes of the Dictionary with the lexemes of the modern Kazakh language and determine the semantic transformations caused by language and social changes.