PHONETIC-LEXICAL FEATURES OF THE STORY "ZARKUM"

The story "Zarkum" is an important work of ancient Uzbek literature, which embodies religious-epic motifs, heroic and historical events. This article analyzes the phonetic and lexical features of the story. The phonetic features of the language of the work, archaisms, synonymous series, religious terms, figurative means, phraseological units, as well as the lexical layers of the work (Turkish, Arabic and Persian) are studied. It is shown that the study of the linguistic features of the epic is a valuable source in studying the lexicon of the Uzbek language of the 19th century.