THE TERMS FOR THE SNOW IN YAKUTIAN LANGUAGE

• Main Author: Nelunov, A.G.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Инфинити 2019
• Subjects: Yakut language; Turkic languages; names of snow; Mongolian and Tungus-Manchu languages; eskimo*; samoyed*; Yakut; Yakuts
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.34660/inf.2019.14.34810; http://naukarus.ru/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2019/Scientific research of the SCO countries - English Reports - August 15 - Part 2.pdf#page=88

The wellknown SepirWhorf hypothesis that the names of the peoples living in the north should be more diverse in comparison with their number among the inhabitants of the middle strip is quite logical and seems to be confirmed by examples from the Eskimo, ObUgric and Samoyed languages Norman 2007: 175. In this article we consider the Yakut language. The Yakut language is interesting in that it belongs to the Turkic languages, but, having early separated from its relatives, it went a long way of development in isolation from other Turkic languages, coming into contact with the Mongolian, TungusManchu languages. At this time, the Yakuts occupy a vast territory in northeast Russia, which is the coldest point of the inhabited part of the globe. Our hypothesis is that in the course of moving to the north, as well as in the centuriesold development of the present territory, the Yakut language was probably enriched with new words denoting snow and its varieties.