I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

self- instruction book, vocabulary, lexical unit, religious vocabulary, Tatar language, grapho-phonetics, transliteration, word

The study of lexical and grammatical material in the diachronic aspect is one of the relevant areas in modern linguistics. Self-instruction books, dictionaries, textbooks of a particular era, along with literary, documentary, historical or journalistic legacies, are also an important source for diverse research in this direction. Among them there is a self- instruction book by G. A. Vagapov, which is an interesting material for versatile study. Despite the fact that such publications were not uncommon for the middle of the 19^th – early 20^th century, the works of G. A. Vagapov found their readers and enjoyed great popularity among the population.

This article attempts to analyze the vocabulary of the religious sphere and its functioning in speech, which is reflected in the self- instruction book by G. A. Vagapov. The article examines the peculiarities of the transmission of words of religious nature in Cyrillic and Arabic graphics, models of phrases and sentences where religious lexical units function, and conducts a general comparative analysis of the editions of G. A. Vagapov’s self- instruction book of different years. As a result of the study of this issue, and taking into account the relevance of studying this area both in synchrony and in diachrony, the author concludes that a more comprehensive and systematic approach is needed in the analysis of religious vocabulary in the Tatar language in the works of the mid-19^th – early 20^th century.

Garipova-Khasanshina, Venera Makmunovna – Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Tatar Language and National Culture, Russian Islamic Institute, Kazan, Russia, https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7012-7257, gmvenera@mail.ru