Tatar-Chinese language interactions (Based on Chinese loanwords in the speech of the tatar diaspora living in modern China)

Abstract

© Journal of Language and Literature. This article studies Chinese loanwords in the speech of Tatars living in a multilingual environment on the territory of modern China. The linguistic features of sinologisms (Chinese borrowings) which generate a particular stratum of the vocabulary of the Tatar diaspora are identified and the characteristics of its development are also studied in this research. Linguistic study of the issue makes it possible to enter new data into scientific use about the loanwords, which penetrated into the speech of the Tatar diaspora in China as a result of mutual cross-language and ethnocultural integration with the local population.