Turkish Vocabulary with Turkish Derivatives in Muhajir Speech

Abstract

The study of the Samkhruli speech has a long history. Accordingly, the study of the Turkish element in the speech of Muhajir is a major problem of Georgian linguistics. Old people speak Georgian in this region, while youthspeaks Turkish. The first information about the "Chorokhi countries" and the speech of people living there, can be foundin the recordings ofsuch famoustravelers and researchers of the XIX century as G. Kazbegi, D. Bakradze, D. Bavreli.

The speech of Muhajirs  is full of various Turkish elements,Turkish lexicon with Turkish derivatives. Let's consider some examples on this occasion.