Диалектные наименования деревьев и кустарников в якутском языке: лингвогеографический аспект (на основе лингвистической платформы «ЛингвоДок»)
Dialect Names of Trees and Shrubs in the Yakut Language: Linguistic and Geographical Features (Based on “Lingvodoc” Linguistic Platform)

Summary/Abstract: Dialectal phytonymic (plant-related) vocabulary typically serves as valuable material for linguo-geographic research. The referents of botanical nomenclature are concrete objects (plants) tied to specific territories, allowing us to establish connections between the linguo-geographic distribution of plant names and the actual distribution of the plants themselves. Based on prior etymological and onomasiological research of dialectal names for trees and shrubs in the Yakut language — published in the article Dialectal Names of Trees and Shrubs in the Yakut Language in Issue No. 1 (56) of the journal Ural-Altaiс Studies — this paper conducts a comprehensive linguistic and historical-ethnographic analysis of these terms and maps their geographical distribution using the cartography function on the LingvoDoc platform (over 30 dialectal mini-dictionaries were uploaded, and linguistic maps were constructed). The study reveals that phytonyms contain extensive information corresponding to biological (growth ranges), historical, and ethnographic (ethnic settlement areas) realities. The data we obtained on linguistic processes in Yakutia correlates, in particular, with the stages of formation of the Yakut dialectal system: Native Turkic vocabulary — Mongolian borrowings (before migration to the Middle Lena region) — Evenki borrowings (approximately from the time of settlement along the Middle Lena and subsequent expansion into other areas) — borrowings from other Tungusic and Paleo-Asiatic languages (likely during later regional contacts) — borrowings from Russian.

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