Buryat basic values: features of transformation in bilingualism

Article is devoted to the analysis of a system of values of the Buryat ethnos, features of their transformation in the conditions of the amplifying growth of number of the Buryat-Russian bilinguals, loss by Buryats of their native language. On the basis of data of a free associative experiment, comparison to materials of “The Buryat associative dictionary”, the attempt to show degree of stability of a Buryat valuable system becomes. Basic components of the Buryat language picture of the world are revealed. It is established that so far force of influence of the national language code is rather high. It is shown that influence of Russian mainly affected reflection of a “real” environment. It is established that associative fields of the allocated kernel of language consciousness in the Buryat and Russian languages have as the general and specific features which in many respects are defined by structural-semantic specifics of language and also national distinctions of idea of the world