The article concerns the study of the semantic and derivational properties of communication verbs in the Tatar language. The relevance of the issue at hand is determined by the fact that verbs of speech activities in the Tatar language have not yet become the object of separate scientific research. In this paper, for the first time, the derivational capabilities of verbs of speech activity in the Tatar language are determined at the level of the word-forming paradigm. The study revealed the structural specifics of this verb vocabulary, revealed the word-forming meanings of suffixes forming verbs of speech, and also demonstrated a number of auxiliary and modifying verbs that take an active part in the formation of compound verbs of the studied group. The authors conclude that communicative verbs, formed by various means of expression, have different meanings that serve to regulate the communicative process. Theoretical arguments are illustrated by examples from reliable Tatar-language sources. The analysis of the structural and word-forming capabilities of communicative verbs allows us to identify the specifics of relations between the derivational and semantic segments of verbs of this group and will also serve as material for studying the semantic connection between the motivating and motivated words.