Bashkir Linguistics in the Activities in the Order of the Badge of Honor of the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ufrc Ras

This article examines the main stages in the development of Bashkir linguistics and the research directions of the Bashkir language at the Order of the Badge of Honor Institute of History, Language, and Literature of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From the very beginning, the linguistic department has been actively pursuing its goals. Over the course of a century, the department has become one of the most prominent centers specializing in the analysis of spoken and written Bashkir, as well as the study of dialects and varieties. Linguistic research projects in connection with the culture, literature, and history of the Bashkir people are carried out with the most active participation from the Institute’s linguists. They have developed and established the norms of the modern literary language, which have been revised several times over the course of a century. Issues related to improving and regulating literary norms of the language continue to be central to the work of the Department of Linguistics staff. Due to the established strong traditions for fixing linguistic units, significant success has been achieved in the fields of Bashkir lexicography and terminography. On the basis of these efforts, generalizing works on dialectology, lexicology, and phraseology of the Bashkir language have been produced. It was important to study the history of the Bashkir language. These studies provide a fairly complete picture of the stages in the formation of linguistic science and the major stages of language development in the Republic of Bashkortostan. An exemplary analysis of the grammatical structure of modern Bashkir reveals its main phonetic, morphologic, morphematic, and syntactic characteristics. The work of the Department of Linguistics staff has contributed significantly to the development of Bashkir onomastic, ethnolinquistic, and sociolinguistic research. The latest research directions based on the applied developments of computational linguistics enrich the Bashkir linguistics with new aspects and approaches, bring the Bashkir language to the world level. The issues of development, the current state and prospects for improving the Bashkir language in diachrony and synchrony receive comprehensive study and detailed coverage in the activities of the staff of the Linguistics Department of the Institute.