VOCABULARY OF HEADWEAR IN THE TUVAN LANGUAGE AND ITS DIALECTS
The author of the article studies and specifies the vocabulary of the topic “Folk Costume” in the Tuvan language and its dialects. It allows allocating a number of lexico-semantic groups, in particular, the vocabulary of headwear. This vocabulary has not been the subject of special studies in linguistic and ethnographic terms yet. The author has collected the language research material during the dialectological expeditions, and also the lexical material contained in the works of ethnographers, folklorists and cultural experts. The special attention is paid to the lexical dialectal words, showing the inextricable relationship between language, culture and ethnicity. It should be noted that the headwear vocabulary of Tuvan has common with Turkic words, although in the South-Eastern dialect of Tuvan the Mongolian borrowings are dominated.