Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies

THE VOCABULARY OF IDENTITY IN UZBEK-LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP: O'ZLIK, AYNIYAT AND IDENTIKLIK IN THE INDEPENDENCE PERIO

The article examines how the concept of identity is expressed in the Uzbek language of historical and ethnological scholarship of the independence period. Three lexical resources are identified: the native derivative o‘zlik with its extension o‘zlikni anglash, the Arabic-derived...