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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1048924

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Title:Alien Language
Qustan382
Documentation of the Beth Qustan Dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic language, Turoyo
Contributor (consultant):Musa Duman
Coverage:Germany
Date:2016-09-02
Description:Musa tells us that he recals shepherds speaking an alien language in 1964/5. He does not know the name of the language. One day after the prayer, the villagers told the priest about this alien language as they were worried that their own language would be harmed or forgotten. The priest preached in the church the following Sunday banning this alien language to spoken.
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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Musa was born in the village of Beth Qustan in 1951 and immegrated to Germany in 1968.
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Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1048924
IPF0244
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1048924%23
Publisher:Mikael Oez
SOAS, University of London
Subject:Narrative
Turoyo language
English language
Subject (ISO639):tru
eng
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Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1048924
DateStamp:  2017-03-18
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Citation: Musa Duman (consultant). 2016-09-02. Mikael Oez.
Terms: area_Asia area_Europe country_GB country_TR iso639_eng iso639_tru

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Country: United KingdomTurkey
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