OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI192928

Metadata
Title:		xizhan_03
		Chechen
Contributor:		Xizhan
		Alman
Coverage:		Russia
Date:		2007-09-03
Description:		A story about three girls who went to pick strawberries. One of the girls finished picking strawberries fater than the others. She left them and later she fell asleep. The other girls tied her up and left. The girl asked to help a bird first then a crow but they didn't help her. A pigeon helped her later to untie her braids. Then the girl asked her mother how to get home. Her mother (the voice) told her how to do it. On her way back home the girl saw a witch who had three dauthers. She ran away from them and killed one of the witch's daughters. The witch was following her. Dialect: Standard Equipment: Marantz PMD 660, Microphone 1000 DX Access: U
		The goal of this collection is twofold: (1) to complete a reference grammar of Chechen (of which 20% is already drafted), which will be submitted as a PhD dissertation at the University of Leipzig; (2) as the empirical basis of this, to collect, transcribe, annotate, and publish an audio- visual corpus of Chechen. The focus of the grammar is on morphology and morphosyntax, especially on hitherto unknown structures in the evidentiality/mirativity system. The focus of the corpus will be on the speech of monolingual speakers who preserve structures that disappeared from speech of younger generations due to influence of Russian. Chechen is a Northeast Caucasian (aka Nakh-Dagestanian) language with several dialectal variants, including Cheberloi. There are over one million native speakers of Chechen. However, most speakers who are younger than 70 years old are bilingual and most often proficient in Russian. The number of monolingual speakers is very low: they are either over 70 years old or belong to a very few who grew up in rural areas and had no chance to receive a secondary education. Language proficiency in Chechen depends to a great extent on the place of origin of the speaker and the language spoken at home in his/her family. Most Chechens who grew up in the city are more fluent in Russian or can understand Chechen, but do not speak it. Chechen is not traditionally a written language. The first version of the Chechen alphabet was introduced in the 19th century with a version of the Arabic alphabet. In the 1920s it was written using the Latin alphabet, but in the 1930s an orthographic system based on the Cyrillic alphabet was created and adopted. Chechen is reported to have the following dialects: Akkin (Aux), Cheberloi, Itumkala (Shatoi), Kistin, Melkhin, annd Ploskost. Alternate names: Galancho, Nokchiin Muott, Nokhchiin.
		Dialect: standard
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/plain
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI192928
		IGS0057
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI192928%23
Publisher:		Zarina Molochieva
		University of Regensburg
Subject:		Folklore
Type:		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI192928
DateStamp:		2018-04-03
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Citation:		Xizhan; Alman. 2007-09-03. Zarina Molochieva.