Keyword: «toponymy of uzbekistan»

Summary: The article explores the names of rivers and rivers, aryks in Tashkent and its region. A certain interest in scientific terms is the hydronymy of the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, studies appear in the field of the history of toponyms. Toponymy develops as an independent science.. One of the characteristic features of hydronymy of the Tashkent region is that among hydronyms ethnohydronyms occupy a specific weight. Judging by the geographical names and current national composition of the population of the studied region, the bulk of the toponymizers are Uzbeks who speak the Kypchak dialect of the Uzbek language, the appearance of the Russian-speaking part of multinational Uzbekistan also left a mark on the origin of some hydronyms in the toponymy of the Tashkent region. It is the Slavic layer of hydronyms that is paid attention in the article