The Composition of the Historical Lexical Fund Represented in the Kazakh Dictionaries of the XVIII-XX Centuries

Kazakh vocabulary is reflected in Russian-Kazakh glossaries, Russian-Kazakh dictionaries, multilingual educational manuals, bilingual and multilingual vocabularies, Russian-Kazakh phrasebooks and self-study guides, guide dictionaries, Kazakh-Russian dictionaries, as well as in various other lexicographic works compiled since the last quarter of the 18th century. The materials of the Kazakh language published in Russian-Kazakh and Kazakh-Russian dictionaries of the 18th-20th centuries constitute the main object of this study. It is well known that every language undergoes changes under the influence of internal linguistic processes and external extralinguistic factors. In this regard, analyzing the composition and structure of Kazakh vocabulary published in dictionaries of past centuries from the standpoint of modern science is doubly valuable and significant. The main goal of the study is to examine the lexico-semantic characteristics of Kazakh vocabulary, namely to reveal the structural and semantic features of words. The study employs methods of collecting, selecting, and systematizing linguistic material, as well as descriptive and comparative methods of analysis. The results of the research and the recommendations presented make a certain theoretical contribution to the study of the history of the Kazakh language, historical lexicology and lexicography, and may also be useful in teaching the history of the Kazakh language.

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