DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANTHROPONYMIC SYSTEMON THE TERRITORY OF YAKUTIA

Abstract

It is dedicated to the formation of the anthroponymic system of Russian language in the territory of Yakutia in the 17th-18th centuries from 20th. It presents the results of studying the development of the local anthroponymic system in the conditions of a bilingual community. To achieve the set goal, popular masculine names, existed in the 17th-18th centuries in the territory of Yakut Land, have been determined through the continuous sampling and statistical methods; the most frequent masculine names, used in the city of Yakutsk in the late 20th century, have been identified; comparative analysis with the data of the 17th-18th centuries has been conducted, as well as a sociolinguistic survey, a dynamics of development of personal names used in Yakutia is shown. It was concluded that the 17th century’s onomasticon was mainly formed by the calendar Christian names, which had gradually superseded Yakut national names of the indigenous population in the official documents. The anthroponymic system of Yakutia did not undergo any major transformation in the 17th-20th centuries: calendar Christian names, forming the basis of the all-Russian onomasticon, were preferred for naming Russian and Yakut male population. The peculiarity of the anthroponymic system of Yakutia in the late 20th-ealy 21st centuries is a large-scale implementation of Yakut national names; almost forgotten national names are returned to a widespread use; Yakut spelling of the names is preferred.