The article is devoted to the analysis of the linguistic characteristics of youth slang in contemporary Russian. It examines the sources of its formation, its structural-semantic and functional features, as well as the influence of the digital environment on the development of slang vocabulary. It is emphasized that youth slang represents a dynamic subsystem of the language that reflects current social, cultural, and communicative trends in modern society.

: youth slang, contemporary Russian language, linguistic features, slang vocabulary, internet communication, Anglicisms, language play, word-formation models, sociolinguistics, jargon, digital environment, metaphoricity, evaluative lexicon.

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