THE ALPHABET "DREVLESLOVENSKAYA BUKVITSA" AS A REPRESENTANT OF FOLK LINGUISTICS

Abstract

Summary. The purpose of the article is to prove that the alphabet Drevleslovenskaya Bukvitsa" is a modern falsification. The object of the analysis is the alphabet "Drevleslovenskaya Bukvitsa", the subject of the research is the problem of falsifications in modern folk linguistics. The work uses historical and descriptive methods and comparative analysis. The result of the study is to draw attention to the problems of studying and disseminating non-scientific hypotheses in the field of linguistics. The material of the article can be used in the process of teaching students as a way to combat unscientific knowledge.Conclusions. The totality of non-professional linguistic concepts is usually called folk linguistics. The main directions in the field of folk linguistics are: hypotheses about the etymology and origin of words; comparison of related and unrelated languages based on apparent similarity; reading ancient undeciphered texts using modern language; creating "ancient" texts. We refer to the latter direction as "Drevleslovenskaya Bukvitsa", which, although not actually a text, is interpreted as "the authentic ancient alphabet of the Slavs". Professional scientific study of the "Drevleslovenskaya Bukvitsa" was not carried out, as any specialist can easily determine its fake. However, the main problem is that this "alphabet" is actively published and distributed among the population, which wants to know the "truth" about the antiquity of the Russian / Slavic language, which is "carefully hidden" by linguists. We carried out a comparative analysis of the "Drevleslovenskaya Bukvitsa" and the Cyrillic alphabet and came to the conclusion that the "Bloomer" cannot be the most ancient Slavic alphabet, since, first, it does not have any special graphic differences from the Cyrillic alphabet, and second, it uses letters that did not have phonetic correspondences with ancient Slavic phonetics.