TERMS DENOTING ‘HOUSEHOLD TOOLS’ IN VAKHAN TAJIK DIALECTS
The article provides information about the lexical and semantic features of words and terms that denote the name of ‘household tools.’ Words in this area include the following:1. The most common Tajik terms, which are used in both the Vakhan and other southern dialects, in its either partially or fully changed form.2. Dialectical vocabularies or idiomatic words that have other antonyms in the literary language.3. Words that have been translated into the spoken language of the Vakhan Tajiks from Vakhan language. 4. Loanwords that are adopted in Vakhan Tajik dialects to describe the name of household tools, such as: a. Russian words b. Turkish-Mongolian words c. Arabic wordsThis study of Vakhan Tajik dialect revealed that the existence of loanwords is the result of long cohabitation of these people in the region and the historic influence of languages.