Author: Gisarov, Farhod

Annotation: The article focuses on the lexical aspects of the changes that have occurred in the history of the Uyghur alphabet, using the encyclopedia "Uyghur Medicine Science of Raw Materials" used as a textbook of traditional Uyghur medicine (TUM) in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, and the Uyghur folk medicine terms that include the names of medicinal plants used in TUM, the names of various minerals and ores, and analyzes the significance of such changes in the development of terminology. The article focuses on the relationship between the formation of medical terms and their variants in other languages, the ways in which medical terms in the Uyghur language spread during their development, and the significance of these reasons and factors in the development of Uyghur studies and medical terminology.

Keywords: Folk language, Uyghur language, medical terms, linguistics, traditional Uyghur alphabet, alphabet reform, Latin letters, names of medicinal plants

Pages in journal: 203 - 214