К ВОПРОСУ О КЛАССИФИКАЦИИ ТЮРКСКИХ ЭТНИЧЕСКИХ ИМЕН

Article examines the problem of classification of Turkic ethnic proper names. In the process of studying the characteristics of Turkic ethnic names, four groups were identified: self-names foreign names, ethnonyms that arose on a territorial basis and contain geographical terms or names of cardinal directions, political ethnonyms are “artificial” names of certain ethnic groups that arise due to the ideological principles of a particular social institution.