Symbolic meanings of numbers in proverbs

Abstract

It is well known that in the oral tradition, literature, ethnography and worldview of the peoples of the world, the number system has a special significance. For this reason, their meanings in the text of the work have been specially studied in the field offolklore and literature. The article examines the proverbs of English and Karakalpak language and its functional-semantic features of the numbers encountered in the text of folk proverbs.