Abstract: This article is devoted to the study of semantic features of the Kyrgyz people in semiotic signs reflecting their national worldview. The place of semantic signs in linguistics and their manifestations are studied, as well as how linguistic phenomena reflecting national peculiarities are conveyed through unwritten traditional perceptions, i.e. by non-verbal means, and how they are verbalised. The role of the tradition of ‘oaths’ of the epic ‘Manas’ in the formation of the worldview of the Kyrgyz people is analysed, as well as the concepts related to nature, society, kinship ties and spiritual values reflecting the peculiarities of the worldview of the Kyrgyz people. The semiotic expression of non-verbal symbolic ritual signs of the Kyrgyz language and semantic meanings of words and expressions reflecting its cultural and worldview aspects were analysed.
Keywords: semantics, semiotics, non-verbal means, context, lexicology, ethnolinguistics, Kyrgyz language, linguistics, symbolism.