Loanwords in Magic Fairy Tales of the Kalmyks
https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2017-11-102-112
Abstract
The article examines borrowed vocabulary in Kalmyk as exemplified by a number of magic fairy tale plots. It reveals that fairy tale texts recorded in the 19th century contain loanwords borrowed from Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and some Turkic languages. The fairy tales recorded later contain isolated culture-specific household terms borrowed directly from Russian. The analysis shows that fairy tale texts recorded in the 20th century had largely lost the obsolete common Mongolian vocabulary, and have a minimum of Turkic loanwords.
About the Author
D. Ubushieva
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (Elista, Russian Federation)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ph. D. in Philology (Cand. of Philological Sc.), Research Associate, Department of Mongolian Philology
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Ubushieva D. Loanwords in Magic Fairy Tales of the Kalmyks. Mongolian Studies. 2017;9(2):102-112. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2017-11-102-112
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