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Vafsi Folk Tales - Twenty Four Folk Tales in the Gurchani Dialect of Vafsi as Narrated by Ghazanfar Mahmudi and Mashdi Mahdi and Collected by Lawrence P. Elwell-Sutton (Hardcover)
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Vafsi Folk Tales - Twenty Four Folk Tales in the Gurchani Dialect of Vafsi as Narrated by Ghazanfar Mahmudi and Mashdi Mahdi and Collected by Lawrence P. Elwell-Sutton (Hardcover)
Series: Beitrage Zur Iranistik, 25
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This volume consists of 24 folk tales told by two native speakers
and tape-recorded by British Iranist, Lawrence P. Elwell-Sutton in
Iran in August, 1958. Vafsi is an Iranian language spoken in four
villages in central Iran: Vafs, Fark, Chehreqan and Gurchan, their
population ranging from about 400 to 4500 inhabitants. Although the
geographic extension of Vafsi thus can be defined quite clearly,
its exact linguistic affiliation is still under question. While it
has been classified as belonging to the Tatic group, particularly
closely related to the Southern Tatic Dialects, other researchers
see Vafsi possibly as a Central Plateau dialect. Furthermore, there
are features that are typical of Kurdish, but the presence of these
features has yet to be assessed or explained. Elwell-Sutton not
only recorded the tales but also made a transcription, which,
however, he never published. On the basis of the records and with
the help of native speakers Sutton's work was revised and is now
presented refined and corrected. Additionally, the author gives an
insight into the grammatical structures of this otherwise rarely
studied Iranic language and supplies the reader with an extensive
glossary as well as an English translation of each tale. Those who
are especially interested in folclorist aspects may find the
annotations to each story helpful. They inform about paralels in
Persian and Arabic folk tale traditions but also comment on
specific sentences as to syntax and semantics. The accompanying CDs
contain all 24 tales as they were told by two male speakers aged 16
and about 60. Together this amounts to nearly four hours of spoken
Vafsi.
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