Comparative Analysis of Translation of Chuvash Adjectives into Russian and German by the Example of the Poem ‘Narspi’ by K. Ivanov

The paper is devoted to the peculiarities of translating Chuvash adjectives expressing the colour characteristics of objects and phenomena of the poem “Narspi” by K. Ivanov into Russian and German. The purpose of the study is to identify the peculiarities of the translation of the adjectives of the poem “Narspi” into Russian and German on the basis of a comparative analysis. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time the specifics of the translation of Chuvash adjectives conveying different color characteristics of the poem are being investigated. The study was conducted using the methods of continuous sampling of constructions with adjectives of the poem “Narspi” by K. Ivanov and the method of comparative analysis to identify common and different translation variants. The translation of Chuvash adjectives denoting colors into Russian and German and the techniques of their transmission have not been considered in such detail before. The Chuvash language, a little-spoken language, is compared with Russian and German and studied in more detail thanks to this research analysis. The issues of translating Chuvash works into the languages of other peoples, related to the transfer of the stylistic and national identity of the original, its poetic form, are new material for study. The most common ways of translating Chuvash adjectives into Russian and German are by calculating and selecting equivalents with synonymous meanings.