Abstract
One of the main tasks of Altaistics in the XXI century is to study the interconnection and relationship between the large language groups, such as Turkic, Mongolian, Tungus-Manchu and Japanese-Korean, connecting ethnogenesis, history, traditions and customs, spiritual and cultural heritage and world outlook of the people speaking these languages, and an interdisciplinary approach to Altaistics on this basis. It is important to take the phraseological fund of Altaic languages as the goal of comparative studies, based on interdisciplinary complexity. In this regard, studying mythological-symbolic code of Turkic-Mongolian language picture of the world by comparing the Kazakh and Mongolian equivalent phraseologisms, based on kiiz ui [ki:iz ui] ‘felted mat house’, ‘yurt’, in the context of “language and culture”, we identify the similarities and distinctive features of ancient cognition of the Turkic (Kazakh) and Mongolian culture in Central Asia, historically, culturally and linguistically connected since ancient times. Kiiz ui is not just a house, comfortable for moving from one place to another, but also can symbolise of binary oppositions of the universe. In nomadic worldview kiiz ui – the micro image of the world, shаnyraq [ʃahyraq] ‘wooden circle forming the smoke opening of a yurt’ in this image is the micromodel of the Sky, кuldireýish [kuldireuiʃ] 'cross racks on the top side of yurt’ which is connected to shаnyraq like arks symbolises “the unity of the Space and the Man”, ýyq [uwwq] ‘flexed racks connected to shаnyraq is the symbol of the Sun rays that lights the world.
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