Author: Khamidova, Makhbuba

Annotation: Folklore in its narrow sense - as an oral verbal art with its own special genre system, a set of plots, heroes, visual means - and in its broad sense - as the whole traditional folk culture in all its diversity of forms and ways of expression - has always been of research interest to literary scholars and linguists. This can be explained not only by the desire to study its specifics, the system of plots, genres, etc., but also by the fact that folklore is a reflection of a peculiar image of the world that has been developing in the public consciousness for thousands of years. and it has not lost its relevance in our time. The research of oral folk art is of particular importance in our time, when interest in the historical past is growing and the search for the Russian national idea is underway

Keywords: folklore language; picture of the world; specific features.