DIRECT BORROWINGS OF ARABIC AND PERSIAN WORDS IN THE CHUVASH LANGUAGE
This article considers Arab and New Persian borrowings in the Chuvash language on the basis of the study of German scientist B. Scherner, the results of which are published in the book «Arabische und neupersische Lehnwörter im Tschuwaschischen». Of a large number of loan words the author highlighted those that passed without participation of an intermediary language, that are examples of audio transitions. Phonetic and semantic changes are summarized, chronological arrangement of the long borrowing process in the VII-XII centuries is analyzed. The article proves relevance of the study for ethnolinguistics and for Arabic-speaking audience in I.N. Ulyanov Chuvash State University.