Cossacks - a people who originated on the banks of the Don - over the long centuries of their existence have created a unique culture and original language...... The Don Cossacks’ buzz is very colorful...... [ The "Great Dictionary of the Don Cossacks", compiled on the basis of the materials of dialectical expeditions, gives the reader the opportunity to get acquainted with this unique lexical system . It will be of interest not only to specialists - linguists, philologists, ethnographers, historians - but also to wide readership circles. Lovers of live folk speech will learn that alahar is a frivolous person, bayrak is a ravine, a womanizer is a kind of women's hairstyle, a stinger is expensive, a sweetheart, a kildim is a mess, a Tulisha is a chick, a holodah is a salasha, and to climb into a cupcake is to resent trifles and much more[T] Dop. Information: This dictionary is far from complete and is being published for the third time (the first edition was in 1975-76. - "Dictionary of Russian Don dialects" in 3 volumes, the second - in 1991. The first volume of the two-volume edition of the Dictionary of Russian Don Tongues (the second volume could not be published due to the difficulties that arose) was replenished with new data, the collection of which continues now by Cossack activists and scientists who want to revive the practically lost language of their ancestors. Screenshots