Lexical features of the Malkin dialect of the Kabardian language

The purpose of the study is to determine the lexical features and main differences with the literary Kabardian language in the speech of the indigenous inhabitants of the villages of Batekh and Etoko in the lower part of the village of Malka (Hajihable) Zolsky district of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time since the 50s of the twentieth century, the lexical features of the Malkin dialect of the Kabardian language have been comprehensively studied and characterized. The article analyzes the main differences in the vocabulary of the Malkin dialect in the context of the data of the literary language, reveals the lexical differences themselves, when identical concepts in the literary language and dialect are expressed in different lexical units, traces some differences in the design of the form of words that are common to the Malkin dialect and the literary language. The article also describes some inconsistencies in the semantics of lexemes in the studied dialect with the norms of the literary language. The obtained results show that the main lexical differences in the structure of the dialect and the literary language at the present stage can be divided into conditional groups: lexical ones, when the same concepts in the literary language and dialect are designated by different lexical units; discrepancies in the form of words that are common to the Malkin dialect and the literary language.