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ASTRA Salvensis, Supplement no. 1/2021 LINGUO-CULTURAL PECULIARITIES IN GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF AYAGOZ REGION Shynar B. SEIITOVA1, Serikkul K. SATENOVA2, Assem A. KASSYMOVA1, Farida A. GAINULLINA1, Berdibek N. BIYAROV3, Gulnur AKHMETOVA1, Shaiza A. DOSKEYEVA1 1Department of Philology, Kazakh Humanitarian Law Innovative University, Semey, Republic of Kazakhstan 2Department of General Linguistics and Translation Theory, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Nur-Sultan, Republic of Kazakhstan 3Department of Kazakh, Russian Philology and Journalism, Sarsen Amanzholov East Kazakhstan State University, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Republic of Kazakhstan Abstract: The article aims to study geographic names of Ayagoz region. Toponymy of Ayagoz region is tightly connected to the past of the nation. In the article we classify the formation of toponyms into four large groups. Based on this classification we distinguished in four lexical groups: (1) ancient Turkic layer; (2) Cuman layer; (3) entry layer and (4) basic linguistic layer. The statements are proved by some examples on the onomasiology of the Ayagoz region. Moreover, toponymy is further divided into individual and complex toponyms. We claim that geographic names, i.e. typonymy, describe physical and geographical features of the region in the past. By studying geographic names of Ayagoz region in close relationship with the history of the nation, its economy (farmery or agriculture), culture, faith and beliefs, we can come to many scientific findings and make conclusions. Keywords: toponyms; ancient Turkic layer; Cuman layer; entry layer; basic linguistic layer. Nowadays, in the era of scientific and technical crisis, the language aims to reframe research paradigms of linguistics, revive the past, to set a scientific balance by distinguishing interrelation between the present and the past. Following the words by A. Kaidar: “The centuries-long development of an ethnos, its symbols and signs can be extant in the form of stone sculptures and cuneiform characters on rocks, cultural monuments and various buildings. But they are just a small part of the life of an ethos, its true wisdom and views are preserved only in its language. Each epoch contains denominations of instruments, weapons, clothes, food, household items, traditions, customs, beliefs, entertainments and celebrations that are needed in life, their features and specifics etc. can reach us as linguistic facts only, that is, as individual words, word combinations, phrases or proverbs”1, it is common knowledge that in the history of evolutionary development of any nation or culture the 1 A. Kaidar, Actual problems of the Kazakh language, Almaty, Ana tily, 1998, p. 304. 285 ASTRA Salvensis, Supplement no. 1/2021 spiritual value and language of each epoch play the role of specific cultural information bearers, which in the course of time evidence the human development. Such cultural information takes special place in contemporary linguistics. Linguistic information does not just witness its historical era, but it can also reflect ethnic and mental aspects of the real world in the development stages of humanity and culture, and it can be expressed by language units. Such data contained in linguistic units gives full information about cultural life, mentality, location, customs and traditions of the people. Among the linguistic units special place is given to onomastic names, which support a word. Like other linguistic units, onomastic names are also referred to as a symbol forming a cognitive model or an object the view a real life, which can be understood as the objects that shape the image of the world. Toponyms represented in linguistic units are distinguished by historical-ethnographic, cognitive and symbolic attributes. The Kazakh toponyms were studied first in the monograph by A. Abdrakhmanov, which was published in 1959 under the title Kazakh Land and Water Names. The scholar gave a valuable insight into the etymological analysis of the personal and semantic structure of geographic names. The scholars started paying attention to geographic names as an object of linguistic studies in 1992. Today the list of authors who wrote valuable scientific works that contributed to the formation of the theoretical research basis of onomasiology includes A. Abdrakhmanov, Ye. Koishybayeva, T. Zhanuzakov, Ye. Kerimbayev, K. Rysbergen, etc. The main linguistic peculiarities of the Kazakh toponyms The formation of toponyms in the territory of a particular population is dependent primarily on the history, lifestyle, socio-cultural life, occupation and neighboring countries. According to the onomasticians, several factors influence the formation of the toponymy in the Kazakh language. Based on these factors, we can distinguish the following several layers in the formation of the Kazakh toponymy: (1) Ancient Turkic Layer. Land and water names as well as place-names used in Orkhon-Yenisey inscriptions, common to Turkic peoples (Kultegin, Tonyukuk, Bilge Qaghan), that were first mentioned by turkologist Mahmud al-Kashgari who lived in the period of Oguz, Kimek, Kara-Khanid Khanates in his manuscript titled Diwan Lughat al-Turk and other sources are similar in specifics of word formation and grammatical structures to the toponyms of contemporary Kazakh language. These similarities show that some part of the toponymy in the Kazakh language can be used from the ancient Turkic period either in lexicology, or in formation aspects. That is why we classify such toponyms to the Ancient Layer. (2) Cuman Layer. Dating back to the 11th century, historical toponyms of medieval Cumans (Kipchaks) who inhabited near the Irtysh and Dniester rivers, in the Desht-i-Qipchaq 286 ASTRA Salvensis, Supplement no. 1/2021 (Cumania) steppes, are closely linked to the history of the formation and development of our national toponymy. Therefore, by comparing anthroponyms and ethnic toponymsin the etymology of onomastic names in the Kipchak language and modern Kazakh onomastics, we can see historic continuity. Thus, identification of the ancient semantics of anthroponyms in the Kipchak language will give an opportunity to determine the ethnogenetic interrelation and historical continuity between toponyms in the modern Kazakh language and the Kipchak language. Ethnogenetic interrelation and historical continuity form the Cuman layer on the Kazakh onomastics. (3) Entry Layer. Toponyms in this group include anthroponyms and ethnic toponyms that came from Arabic and Persian languages, neighboring Mongolian and Russian languages as a result of the spread of the Muslim religion on the Kazakh steppes. (4) Basic Linguistic Layer. This group includes names of the bulk from the major word fund of our language. So, the study of toponyms, which is the main object of linguistic science, gives us opportunities to come to significant research findings. This article focuses on the linguistic peculiarities of toponyms in Ayagoz district of East Kazakhstan. Ayagoz district is located in the western part of the East Kazakhstan region. The district was founded in 1928. The population of the district is 88.2 thousand people. The land area is 49.5 thousand square kilometers. The district center is the town of Ayagoz. The landscape of Ayagoz district differs by its diversity. It certainly has a significant impact on the formation of toponyms in the region. For example, such place-names as Akzhailau, Akshatau, Aktubek, Akshi, Auliebulak, Barshatas, Kyzyltas, Koktal, Yemeltau, Zhalgyzsu, Yegindybulak, Karasu, Kyzylkiya, Sandyktas, Mynbulak, Sarykamys, Tomar, Shubartas, Kaskabulak, Karatau, Shubartau, Taldybulak give good and clear description of the relief of the region. The rich reserve of land-water names in the area is a historical and cultural heritage. This is because place names were formed many centuries ago, and are a set of geographical names preserving the ancient and present-day history of the nation that lived in that region, and giving information derived from spiritual culture and everyday life, as well as from the natural environment of the region. Formation of the toponymic system of Ayagoz district has a centuries- old history. Since ancient times before Christ, we have evidenced the influence of Huns, Saks, ancient Turks, Oguzs, Cumans and Mongols domination, conflicts between Dzungars and Kalmyks, Russian colonialism, and other historical events which left an imprint on the toponyms of the region. Taking into account such peculiarities of geographic names in Ayagoz region, we can divide them in four lexical groups: (1) ancient Turkic layer; (2) Cuman layer; (3) entry layer and (4) basic linguistic layer. Ancient Turkic Layer is one of the main layers in the formation of toponyms in Ayagoz district. It starts from the ancient Turkic language, i.e. the 287 ASTRA Salvensis, Supplement no. 1/2021 period of reign by Kultegin, Tonyukuk, Bilge Qaghan, and includes the periods of ancient Uighur and Kara-Khanid Khanate, that is shows the continuity and consistency between contemporary place names and the linguistic layer used in such historical works as the Altun Yaruk, Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, Kutadgu Bilig, Divan-i Hikmet, Aqiqat Syiy (The Gift of Truth).For example, Ai (river name), Aizgyz (settlement name) and Bozay (village name): all of these toponyms include the word Ai in the name which was met in the first line on the eastern face of Kultegin monument with the meaning “thirty days” and “moon in the sky.”Likewise, the words boz and kok in such toponymies as Bozay (settlement), Koksala