BOTU’S VIEWS ON LINGUISTICS

Аннотация

Intellectuals who lived and worked at the beginning of the 20th century conducted serious research to solve the problems of our language. They organized a number of scientific conferences on the problem of alphabets and spelling, discussed ways to solve problems in newspapers and magazines. Mahmud Khodiyev, who worked under the pseudonym Botu, was such a passionate linguist, poet and publicist, one of the leading modern intellectuals. The article mentions Bothu’s views on linguistics. KEYWORDS Botu, Jadids, Jadid linguistics, alphabet, literary language.