Ukrainian-Rumeika interlingual homonyms and paronyms

Abstract

The article deals with intermittent homonyms and paromies in the Ukrainian and Rumeika. In 2019, the United Nations announced the International Year of Languages of Indigenous Peoples, and 2022–2032 – an International Decade of Languages of Indigenous Peoples. Rumeika is one of the languages of Greeks of Pryazovia – the indigenous people of Ukraine. Under the terms of the Kuchuk-Carnadzhi Peace Treaty of 1774 between the Ottoman and Russian Empire, the Crimean Khanate became independent. This and the decree of Catherine II caused a wave of the relocation of the Greeks in the Pryazovia. Rumeika has close ties with Modern Greek, while the other language of the Greeks of Pryazovia – Urum – is close to the Crimean Tatar language. For a long time, Rumeika did not have written writing, while in the twentieth century, the efforts of A. Biletskyi for the alphabet developed on the basis of Cyrillic. Despite the fact that in the 20th century Rumeika was an important ethno-forming factor, now it is in a threatening state primarily due to the influence of the Russian language. Ukrainian and Rumeika languages are in close contact, therefore, the emergence of a large number of inter-digit homonyms and parones. Also, the research of Rumeika is important in view of the fact that it is in front of the disappearance, as well as in geopolitical terms through new social challenges to the population of Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to find out the peculiarities of the Ukrainian-Rumeika homonyms and paromies, which involves the following tasks: the creation of a dictionary; explaining the values of words; determination of features of inter-life homonyms and paromies in the case of Ukrainian and Rumeika languages.