STUDYING THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE ISLAND IN UKRAINIAN PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE XX – XXI CENTURIES

Abstract

Introduction. The paper focuses on the study of the language and culture of Bulgarian expatriate community in Ukraine based on the achievements of the Ukrainian linguistsin collecting the Bulgarian idioms in Odesa, Zaporizhya, Mykolaiv and Kropyvnytsky regions.The author pays attention to the linguistic publications from the end of the XX to the first decade of the XXI century related closely or proximately to the Bulgarian language island in Ukraine.Purpose. The paper aims at revealing and describing the lingual situation with Bulgarian language island based on the Ukrainian periodical publications of the XX – beginning ofthe XXI century.Methods. The study of the Bulgarian language island in Ukrainian periodical publications of the XX-XXI centuries is based on the descriptive method, the method of sociolinguistic analysis as well as empirical method.Results. Studying the status of the Bulgarian expatriate community in the contemporary Ukrainian linguistics the author has come to the following statements: the completely topical repertoire of the articles published at the end of the XX – the first decade of the XXI century and related to the Bulgarian dialects in Ukraine could be divided into six groups. They are: origin, evolution, and grammatical peculiarities of the Bulgarian migrants’ dialects; vocabulary and phraseology of the Bulgarian idiom in Ukraine; lingual interactions of the Ukrainian Bulgarians with other ethnic groups; linguocultural and ethnolinguistic issues of the Bulgarian language island; teaching Bulgarian language at school in Ukraine; history and current status of the Bulgarian philology in Ukraine. The most important names of the researchers who contributed to the study of the Bulgarian idioms’ functioning in the Ukrainian journals have been introduced in the paper.Conclusion. The paper emphasizes very important scholars’ achievements in onomatology analyzing the vocabulary of the Bulgarian rituals, interlanguage correspondence, semantic accommodation of loan units, and studying the archaic language features preserved in the Bulgarian dialects in Ukraine.