RUSSIAN BORROWED WORDS IN KHIRGIZ TURKISH AND CONSONANT MUTATION IN THESE WORDS

Abstract

Khirgiz Turkish one of the Kipczak Group Turkish Dialects is divided into two main dialect regions as South and North. Literary language formed in regard to North Dialect Region was impressed by Russian having an extensive usage in every field.The response of Khirgiz Turkish from Russian with regard to vocabulary coincides with the new period and fourth period from historic period of Khirgiz Turkish. During this response in vocabulary, words were also borrowed from the other western languages by Russian. However, as the borrowed words in this situation were borrowed indirectly from Russian, they are mostly used in Russian orthography and Khirgiz Turkish literary language.It is seen that some of the words borrowed from Russian directly or indiretly resemble to voice structure of Khirgiz Turkish as a result of phonetic.In this study, the borrowed words from Russian in Khirgiz Turkish will be confirmed and consonant mutation will be given in these words.

Keywords

• Khirgiz Turkish
• Russian
• Borrowed Word
• Consonant Mutation