WORDS.N tH E LANGUAGE OF THE URYANKHAY UIGHURS IN TSAGAAN-YYR
In the article the author publishes materials collected in an expedition to Khubsugul Aimag of Mongolia in August 2014 as part of work on a RHF grant “Endangered Languages of some Turkic-speaking tribal groups of South-Eastern Sayan”. During the expedition some Turkic-speaking group living in the western and eastern part of Lake Khovsgol Mongolia have been investigated. The paper analyzed the vocabulary of the Uighur language of the Uryankhay people. The research reveals words that match the meaning of words in the literary Tuvan language and those, which are different from it. Most of the words refers to the Turkic vocabulary and belong to the thematic groups, naming parts of body, names of animals, natural phenomena, the state of the atmosphere, plant names, the names of the primary colors, action, landscape, and hunting and fishing vocabulary.