On sound-imitating words and their morphological structure in the Altai language

Tydykova Nadezhda Nikolaevna

This article deals with the issue of sound-imitating words in the Altai language. This question is topical because there is no unified name for this category of words in the Turkic languages so far, these words are often classified as interjections. There has not yet been a special research studies on this subject in Altai language. We call this category of words sound-imitating words and consider it an independent part of speech. The article deals in detail with the morphological structure of sound-imitating words in the Altai language.

Keywords:Altai language, sound-imitating words, mimems, interjections, the morphological structure.