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Этнокультурная символика чисел в башкирском языке
Ethnocultural symbolics of numbers in the Bashkir language

Author(s): Rimma Talgatovna Muratova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук
Keywords: the Bashkir language; numerals; number; worldview; ethnocultural sense

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the sacral meaning of numbers in the Bashkir language. The ethnocultural sense of numbers has been fixed in the people’s language, folklore, spiritual and material culture. The article offers a description of the sacral meaning of such numbers as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 40, 100 and 1,000, which shape the Bashkirs’ numerical notions in the frame of the linguistic worldview.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 02 (5)
  • Page Range: 53-70
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Russian