CHINESE AND UYGHUR LOAN WORDS IN WAKHI
Loan words from Chinese and Uyghur languages are found in the lexicon of the Chinese territorial variant of the Vakhi language. The work deals with earlier studies on the related topics, Iranian and Wakhi etymological dictionaries. The speech of native speakers of the Wakhi language living in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China is analyzed. 92 etymologies were investigated (18 words from Chinese and 74 words from Uyghur). Chinese lexemes came to Vakhi either directly or through Persian and Tajik. Uyghur lexemes are tracked down to the original Turkic words. There is a group of words that refer to the lexico-semantic category of names of tea varieties among Chinese loan words and a group of botanical terms among the Uyghur loan words. All the examples are given in Latin (pinyin) from the textbooks for the Vakhi children written by local teachers.