ANALYSIS OF THE BORROWING PROCESS OF BANK-FINANCIAL SYSTEM TERMS FROM RUSSIAN INTO THE UZBEK LANGUAGE
Keywords:
borrowing, loanwords, banking terminology, Russian-Uzbek language contact, terminological adaptation, calque, phonological assimilation, Uzbek language policy.Abstract
The present article investigates the linguistic mechanisms underlying the borrowing of bank-financial terminology from Russian into the Uzbek language, a process intensified during the Soviet era and continuing in modified form through the post-independence period. Drawing on corpus-based lexical analysis and the theoretical frameworks of contact linguistics and terminological borrowing, the study systematically classifies 120 banking and financial terms according to their phonological, morphological, and semantic adaptation patterns. The findings reveal four dominant borrowing strategies — direct phonetic borrowing, phonomorphological adaptation, calquing, and semantic extension of native Uzbek lexemes — with direct phonetic borrowing comprising the largest proportion (41.7%) of the analysed corpus. The article further examines how Uzbekistan's language policy reforms since 1989 have progressively stimulated the replacement of Russian-derived terminology with native Uzbek alternatives and internationally standardised English-origin terms. The results contribute to contact linguistics theory and offer practical implications for Uzbek terminological standardisation in the banking and financial sector.
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