OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1045397 |
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Title: | Returning the Dead to the Village | |
Qustan247 | ||
Documentation of the Beth Qustan Dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic language, Turoyo | ||
Contributor (consultant): | Iskender Demirel | |
Coverage: | Germany | |
Date: | 2016-08-31 | |
Description: | Iskender tells us that some people return their dead ones to the village. He believes that it makes no difference, as all lands belong to God. He thinks that most people who return their dead to the village do so to avoid expensive funeral costs. | |
The Beth Qustan dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic, Turoyo, which is the language of Tur 'Abdin, South Eastern Turkey, with an estimated 20 families remaining in the village.This project will document socio-cultural practices of the Turoyo speaking community in Tur 'Abdin, focusing on vernacular tales, particularly those that demonstrate cultural interaction between Muslims and Christians, including Muslim visitations to the shrines of Christian saints, and consultation of soothsayers by Christians. | ||
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Iskender was born in the village of Beth Qustan in 1952 and immegrated to Germany in 1976. | ||
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Identifier: | oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1045397 | |
IPF0244 | ||
Identifier (URI): | https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1045397%23 | |
Publisher: | Mikael Oez | |
SOAS, University of London | ||
Subject: | Narrative | |
Turoyo language | ||
English language | ||
Subject (ISO639): | tru | |
eng | ||
Type: | Audio | |
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Archive: | Endangered Languages Archive | |
Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk | |
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OaiIdentifier: | oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1045397 | |
DateStamp: | 2017-03-08 | |
GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
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Citation: | Iskender Demirel (consultant). 2016-08-31. Mikael Oez. | |
Terms: | area_Asia area_Europe country_GB country_TR iso639_eng iso639_tru | |
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Country: | United KingdomTurkey | |
Area: | AsiaEurope |