Socio-political vocabulary in the epitaph of Kul-tigin

In this article, the semantics of socio-political lexical units campaigns are analyzed. These words had arisen as a result of social system, labor processes of society members, their mutual relations, active involvement in society affairs, international relations, military. Social and political terms of Kultigin inscription are compared with the political terms used in such sources as Turfon texts, memoirs “Oltun yaruq”, “Irq bitigi”, also in the sources of old Turkish language such as “Qutadgu bilig”, “Devonu lughotit turk”, “Khibatul khakayik», “Qisasi Rabghuziy”, as well as, with the political terms used in the old Uzbek literary language through samples of the Alisher Navoi’s works, and the texts of “Boburnoma”, “Shajarayi Turk”. As a result of this study, the process of the language development is described through change and transfer of these terms to the modern literary language; change of the status of the lexemes from high frequent one to archaic one being replaced with the borrowed lexeme, and the role of different factors in this change.