Research of the methodology of linguistic toponymy

The article examines the main problems and directions of the methodologist of linguistic toponymy, characteristic of Uzbek linguistics at the present stage. The tasks of toponymy are the distinction between segmental and super segmental onomastics, its connection with the communicative aspect of the language. The geographic method of toponymic research is based on the use of folk geographic terms-words that determine the nature of a geographical object, its genus and species. Being, in fact, a common name, folk terms are used to define a specific geographical concept or phenomenon. The genetic connection of a folk term with geographical objects, their essence, finds expression in toponymy, which is a kind of accumulator of a significant number of terms. The relationship between a toponym and a term is a universal pattern of toponymy.