Typological Interrelationship of Symbolic Colors in Georgian and English Languages

The article deals with the typological analyses (semantic and structural) of color categorization in Georgian and English folk tales. The symbolic meaning of the colors in folk tales, the sense implied in it is the sense of the folk genius and folk wisdom.

Georgian and English folk tales are rich with the symbols of colors. It has been found chromatic and achromatic colors. It has been defined the symbols of death and underworld with the black color.

In English there have been outlined black and blue colors. There are ascertained allomorphs and isomorphs of color categorization in folk tales, their role and place in folk tales. The most interesting is what kind of colors do come across in Georgian and English Folk tales and What is it connected with and what do these colors mean in folk tales with the study of two different languages. We think that presented issue make interesting research material and enable us to analyze the problem with the help of contrastive analysis. 

Keywords: Typological analyses, symbolic color, Georgian and English folk tales, allomorphs, isomorphs.