Semantics of speaking verbs in Finnish language characterizing the external side of oral and written speech content of thought

The article is devoted to the study of the semantics of speaking verbs in the Finnish language. The group "verbs characterizing the external side of speech or writing and the content of thought" has 94 verbs, and thus is the most numerous. In the course of the study, verbal lexical units with the semantics of speech activity in the Finnish language were identified, a classification of lexemes was compiled, taking into account the shades of meanings expressed by them, and a comparative analysis of the semantic meanings of the identified groups of verbs was carried out.