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Title:Baptism and Names
Qustan505
Documentation of the Beth Qustan Dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic language, Turoyo
Contributor (consultant):Gevriye Altun
Coverage:Germany
Date:2016-09-05
Description:Gevriye tells us that children would be baptised withing 30-40 days of their birth. In the case of the infants being ill, they would be baptised within 3 days. There was a tradition to name the children after the deceased parents or grandparents.
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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Gevriye was born in the village of Beth Qustan in 1946 and immegrated to Germany in 1969. He completed his education in the local traditional school of Beth Qustan.
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Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1050885
IPF0244
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1050885%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:MPI1050885
DateStamp:  2017-03-25
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Citation: Gevriye Altun (consultant). 2016-09-05. Mikael Oez.
Terms: area_Asia area_Europe country_GB country_TR iso639_eng iso639_tru

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