ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES

This article is devoted to the question of the genetic relationship of the Chinese and Russian languages. Using the well-known law of logic, by which, if A = B and B = C, then A must be equal to C, the authors show that Russian language, a part of the Slavic group of Indo-European languages, can be considered akin to the Chinese as the Chechen language, along with other North Caucasian languages. This sensational theory related to the Chinese language was proposed by Sergey Starostin. To prove the validity of the question of the kinship of the Russian and Chechen languages, the authors identified more than 70 verbal correspondences in them. However, due to the limited volume of the article, it had to be divided into approximately two equal parts. In this first part of the article, only 50 verbal parallels are considered. The authors plan to study the remaining 20 verbal parallels in their next publication. The total number of verbal parallels identified in the study includes "verba dicendi", verbs of movement, verbs with «burning» semantics, verbs denoting labor actions, and verbs that are not included in a particular thematic group due to their uniqueness. The authors "naturally" do not give any Chinese correspondences to the Russian-Chechen parallels under consideration, suggesting that the supporters of S. Starostin's Sino-Caucasian theory do so, relying entirely on their high competence in the field of Chechen-Chinese language relations.


Introduction
The hypotheses about the kinship of the North Caucasian (NC), Sino-Tibet (ST) and Proto-Yenisei (PY) language families, as Starostin (2007) writes, were expressed before him. However, there was no scientific basis for their proof before, because this requires a "combination of three conditions: 1) the availability of sufficient vocabulary mapping; 2) the presence of a lot of these comparisons, a system of regular phonetic correspondences; 3) the presence among these mappings sufficient number of so-called "basic vocabulary"" (p. 265). These requirements could not be met due to the lack of Proto-Nord-Caucasian, Proto-Yeniseian and Proto-Sino-Tibet reconstruction. Currently, according to Starostin (2007), they are, first of all, in the person of the Etymological Dictionary of the North Caucasian Languages (1994). We do not presume to judge the Proto-Yenisei and Proto-Sino-Tibet reconstruction, which is far from our scientific interests, but we cannot but express our doubts about the North Caucasian reconstruction, on which the Sino-Caucasian theory is based.
The situation is no better in NCED and with the PNC archetype *ɦwVgәbV 'a kind of cereal'

Problem Statement
The research problem is to consider the hypothesis on North Caucasian, Sino-Tibetan and Proto-Yenissean language families based on comparison of reconstructed roots, the accuracy of which about Proto-Caucasian roots in many cases questionable. This can be seen from the above mentioned several https://doi.org /10.15405/epsbs.2021.11.217 Corresponding Author: Arbi Dzhamalájlovich Vagapov Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the conference eISSN:  1647 illustrative examples, the number of which can be increased tenfold. Especially alarming is the fact that the restored roots are not accompanied by specific lexical material, which could be used to check, if not the correctness, then at least the plausibility of the reconstruction. Chechen-Russian (more broadly, East Caucasian-Indo-European) lexical parallels make Starostin's Sino-Caucasian convergences look very pale, so the task that we set ourselves in this article is to demonstrate this by the example of Russian-Chechen verbal correspondences.

Research Questions
The subject of the article is more than 70 of the most striking Russian-Chechen verbal parallels.
Verbs are interesting because, as practice shows, they belong to the least permeable part of the vocabulary of the national language.

Purpose of the Study
The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the factual material (a series of verbs), on the basis of which it is possible to speak with confidence about the genetic proximity of the Russian and Chechen languages, and about the absence of such between the Chechen and Chinese languages.

Research Methods
The paper uses comparative-historical and comparative-typological methods of research.