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The Chuvash Word for “Knife”

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1948
The Chuvash language contains many words lacking a clear etymological relation to the Turco-Tatar languages (of which the Chuvash is a member) as well as to the neighbouring Finno-Ugrian languages. One of these odd expressions is the word for “knife”, zězě, which, according to Ashmarin's Thesaurus Linguæ Tschuvaschorum (vol. xiii, pp.
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Categorization of the Chuvash Language in the Chuvash Republic and Beyond

2019
The article deals with the categorization of Chuvash, a Turkic language, spoken by Chuvash people (their population number is 1435872) and spread in the areas along the Volga and the Urals. In present day Chuvash as well as Russian is a state language in the Chuvash Republic, its legal status being determined in the Constitution of the Russian ...
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ETHNOCULTURAL TRADITIONS OF THE CHUVASH IN CYBERSPACE: PRACTICES OF REPRESENTATION

Topical Issues of Culture, Art, Education
The article examines the peculiarities of the representation of the ethnocultural traditions of the Chuvash in cyberspace, identifies the most frequently used elements of everyday and festive ritual culture of the Chuvash in the course of representation.
E. Yagafova
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Islam among the Chuvashes and its Role in the Change of Chuvash Ethnicity

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2007
The Chuvashes are descendants of Volga-Bulgarians who were the first people to accept Islam as the official state religion in Turkish history. Although some of them have kept alive the traditional beliefs and practices to the present day, they are regarded as a Christian Turkish community today.
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Self-Rated Quality of Life of Foreign Medical Students Getting Education in the Chuvash Republic

ЗДОРОВЬЕ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ И СРЕДА ОБИТАНИЯ - ЗНиСО / PUBLIC HEALTH AND LIFE ENVIRONMENT
Introduction: Currently, about 3,000 foreign students study at I.N. Ulyanov Chuvash State University. Globalization of education involves Russian universities into a common global educational space and makes higher education more accessible to foreigners.
E. G. Drandrova, S. Pavlova, Shakti C. Nayak   +2 more
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STATE AND PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF HOP GROWING IN THE CHUVASH REPUBLIC

Vestnik of Kazan state agrarin university
The brewing industry of the Russian Federation at the present stage is characterized by a high level of raw material dependence on supplies of raw materials, in particular hops, from foreign countries.
Mariya Tolstova, Aleksandra Kornilova
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Keeper of intangible cultural heritage: the role of grandmothers in the transmission of ethnic language and culture (a case study of sociolinguistic surveys in the Chuvash and Mari diasporas in the Moscow region)

Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal
An essential mechanism for transmitting ethnic language within families involves the transfer from older to younger generations, with grandmothers playing a prominent role in this process.
M. Kutsaeva
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On Chuvash-Mongolian Linguistic Contacts

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1977
IN HIS INTERESTING PAPER on the history of Ch' usra'to keep up, raise, take care of', A. R6na-Tas discusses a number of Ch words which he defines as borrowings from MMo.2 There is no doubt that the words concerned are of ultimate M origin. Moreover, it has been established that the T languages do have loan words taken from MMo.3 The problem that ...
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Transformation and synthesis of mythological plots and images in the modern Chuvash dramatic fairy tale

Philology. Issues of Theory and Practice
The research aims to identify changes in mythological plots and images in modern Chuvash fairy-tale plays for children. The paper analyzes fairy-tale plays by Iosif Trer, Olga Turgay, and Elen Narby.
E. Perepelkina, Ekaterina Romanovna Yakimova   +1 more
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SOMATISMS IN THE LANGUAGE MODELING OF THE WORLD (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF THE RUSSIAN AND CHUVASH LANGUAGES)

Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki
The authors analyze in a comparative way Russian and Chuvash words and phraseological units that make up the lexical category “somatisms” in the Russian and Chuvash linguistic world view. Within the framework of this lexical category, the somatisms “head”
L. V. Borisova, A.M. Ivanova, E. V. Chueva   +2 more
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