Russian Borrowings in the Aleutian and Den'aina Languages: Causes and Assimilation

摘要

The article aims to identify the correlation between the reasons for borrowing Russian words into the indigenous peoples' languages and semantic assimilation of the loan words from the perspective of their interaction with native lexical units. Russian borrowings are viewed as a part of Russian historical and cultural heritage of Russian America. Commonalities in the systemic impact of the Russian language on the Aleutian and Dena'ina languages, such as similar causes of borrowings, similarities in the distribution of loan words in the thematic groups, common tendencies in the process of adaptation show that there were numerous common features in the cross-cultural and cross-language contacts.