Youth Slang in the Era Of Globalization: A Comparative Analysis of Borrowings in the Russian and Kyrgyz Languages

Abstract

The article examines the processes of globalisation in the youth lexicon of Kyrgyzstan based on Russian and Kyrgyz language materials. Youth language is an indicator of social and cultural changes, reflecting the influence of global processes on everyday communication. This work reveals the mechanisms of integration of foreign elements and their role in the formation of modern youth speech. The aim of the study is to determine the role of code-switching in the formation of youth language and to compare the use of borrowings in Russian and Kyrgyz among young people. The study is based on a corpus of lexical units of the youth speech collected from social networks, everyday speech and blogs of people aged 15–25. The analysis revealed the active use of Anglicisms in technology, internet culture and entertainment, as well as the adaptation of borrowings into Kyrgyz morphology. Code-switching acts as a tool for expressing emotions and social identity. The results of this work demonstrate both convergent and divergent trends in Russian and Kyrgyz youth slangs, shaped by typological differences between languages and their sociolinguistic environment. The conclusions show that globalisation does not destroy the national language, but forms a hybrid lexicon that combines local and global cultural elements.