The main purpose of the research is to analyze the Kazakh and Turkish proverbs related to the lexeme "tongue/language", to identify their similarities, specificities and to reveal the national and cultural characteristics of both languages.In accordance with the purpose of the research, we used the comparative and componential analysis as a tool to investigate common characteristics and distinctive features of theconcept of "tongue/language".The findings of the research can be used in the elective courses like cultural linguistics, ethnolinguistics, folklore, and comparative phraseology and will serve as a material for compiling dictionaries of idioms and proverbs in lexicography
