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Title:The Village Today
Qustan378
Documentation of the Beth Qustan Dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic language, Turoyo
Contributor (consultant):Bosus Acar
Coverage:Germany
Date:2016-09-02
Description:Bosus says that there are only about 20 families left in the village. There were only 30 families when Bosus left the village a few years ago. This is mainly due to the lack of jobs in the village. Even the animals have been reduced in number as there are not enough people left to look after them. Nowadays, to bring all flocks together to grase them in turns.
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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Bosus was born in the village of Beth Qustan in 1992 and moved to Salzburg, Austria, in 2015 to complete his MA in Syriac Theology in 2015.
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Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1048933
IPF0244
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1048933%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:MPI1048933
DateStamp:  2017-03-18
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Citation: Bosus Acar (consultant). 2016-09-02. Mikael Oez.
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