ON USING CAPITAL LETTERS IN THE MODERN YAKUT LANGUAGE
Vasil'eva Nadezhda Matveevna
Institute of Researches in Humanities and Problems of Smaller Peoples of the North of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract. The article is devoted to using the capital letters in the modern Yakut language, as this problem is not solved enough in the existing rules of spelling. In this context, the author analyzes the principles and criteria for the use of capital letters. This article considers the most common use of capital letters and their validity, and presents the variants for differentiation of proper names and common nouns in difficult cases.
Key words and phrases: якутская орфография, прописные буквы, строчные буквы, синтаксический принцип, семантический принцип, Yakut spelling, capital letters, small letters, syntactic principle, semantic principle
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