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Title:Infertile Women
Qustan361
Documentation of the Beth Qustan Dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic language, Turoyo
Contributor (consultant):Gabro Durmaz
Coverage:Germany
Date:2016-09-02
Description:Gabro tells us about infertile women going to the St Gabriel Monastery. They fill the skull of a saint with water and pour it on the infertile woman forty times, and she becomes fertile. This custom still exists today.
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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Gabro was born in the village of Beth Qustan in 1950 and immegrated to Germany in 1979.
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Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1048819
IPF0244
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1048819%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:MPI1048819
DateStamp:  2017-06-22
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Citation: Gabro Durmaz (consultant). 2016-09-02. Mikael Oez.
Terms: area_Asia area_Europe country_GB country_TR iso639_eng iso639_tru

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