THE INTERACTION OF LANGUAGES IN AZERBAIJAN

Historical contacts, state formations, the setting of market relations, the appearance of foreign goods and formation of the united international enterprises promote expansion and interaction of various languages. In this regard we find it interesting to investigate some Russian and English borrowings in the modern spoken Azerbaijanian language, and the influence of the Azerbaijanian language on the Russian language of the Russian-speaking citizens living in Azerbaijan. So, the purpose of this work is to identify the modern Russian and English borrowings in the Azerbaijanian language, to investigate the features of their usage and to study the extent of penetration of Russian and English slang-words into the speech of Azerbaijanians. To achieve this purpose, the following tasks were put forward: to study the scientific publications about the reasons of lexical borrowings in a language; to systematize the lexical units into lexica-morphological groups. The objectives caused the use of the following methods: the method of dictionary interpretation analysis; the comparative method; the method of mathematical data processing and the modeling method. The area of the research is the vocabulary of the Azerbaijanian language. The object of research is the words borrowed from Russian and English as the result of intercommunication. The result of the work is the reflection of the language situation in the Azerbaijan Republic, and that of word-formation processes that take place in the Azerbaijanian language. Conclusions: there is an active influence of the Russian and English languages on the Azerbaijanian language and as a result on the culture of the people living in Azerbaijan. In its turn the Azerbaijanian language has a certain impact on the Russian of the Russian-speaking population of the republic, which finds its reflection in the lexis of the contacting languages.

borrowed words, interaction, intercultural communication, slang, colloquial language, Russian, Azerbaijanian

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