The article focuses on the analysis of the origins and development of Turkish and Russian lexis from the socio-linguistic perspective. The fate of book-written borrowings that entered the Turkish and Russian languages from the languages with a long literary tradition is explored.
First, the article analyses borrowings that entered Turkic languages, including Turkish, from Arabian and Persian languages. Second, Turkic borrowings in Russian and other Slavonic languages are explored. Third, the article focuses on the influence of the Russian language on Turkic languages spoken in the former Soviet Union, which were largely affected by Russian lexis. Finally, English borrowings in the modern Turkish language are explored.