Ethnic -language contacts and borrowing. Tutorial

The manual in a brief reference form sets out the most important problems of linguistics within the programs of training courses "Introduction to Linguistics", "Language Theory", "Russian Language" studied by students of philological specialties. In a simple and affordable form, which is facilitated by the thematic location of the material, a linguistic minimum of problems of the theory of language contacts and borrowing in the Russian language is outlined. This material reveals part of the most important problems of ethnolinguistics and sociolinguistics. The manual contains information that reflects the current state of linguistics, allowing to master the terminology and the basics of theoretical knowledge in linguistics.
For students, graduate students and teachers of philological faculties of universities