Color definitions in Kalmyk riddles

the article is devoted to topical issues of studying adjectival color designations (CD) in the Kalmyk language based on riddles. The article describes the scope of the work and the degree of its development, formulates the object, subject, goal and tasks, substantiates the methodology and scientific significance, theoretical and practical novelty of the study. The object of the study is the adjectival color vocabulary functioning in Kalmyk riddles. The subject of the study is its linguocultural interpretation through the prism of theoretical understanding of the problem of the relationship between language and culture. The authors see their task in describing the uniqueness of the semantic functioning of the vocabulary in question in Kalmyk riddles. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were identified: to identify the corpus of Kalmyk riddles with color vocabulary; to conduct a semantic analysis of color designations; to determine the dominant CDs representing the worldview of the riddles. The relevance of this work is determined, on the one hand, by the growing interest in identifying national-specific features of the CD in different languages, on the other hand, by their insufficient study in the Kalmyk language. As a result of the analysis of the material, the dominance of nominations of black, white and red colors in Kalmyk riddles was revealed. Relevant and frequently encountered CD also include blue, yellow, green, gray.

riddle, the Kalmyk language, color designations, vocabulary of material culture