The Girl in the Ape’s House: A Folktale in a North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Variety of Urmiya, RussiaJournal of Semitic StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/PNP57AKK/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AlexeiLyavdanskyKirillKozhanovMariaOvsjannikovaThe Girl in the Ape’s House: A Folktale in a North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Variety of Urmiya, Russiahttp://syriaca.org/cbss/PNP57AKKhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/PNP57AKKhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/PNP57AKKJournal of Semitic Studies69:12024231-267The article discusses dialectal and folkloristic features of an oral narrative in a North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) variety recently recorded in the Southern Russian village of Urmiya. The dialect of the tale belongs to the NENA varieties originating in the easternmost regions of Turkey, which is corroborated by the tale’s speaker, who named its places of origin as Lewən, Albaq, and Gawar. These dialects remain largely undescribed and are highly endangered. The plot of the story is not known from hitherto published Neo-Aramaic field texts. Even though it resembles some of the folktales recorded in Iran and India, the story contains a unique combination of narrative motifs.
Lyavdansky, Alexei, Kirill Kozhanov, and Maria Ovsjannikova. “The Girl in the Ape’s House: A Folktale in a North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Variety of Urmiya, Russia.” Journal of Semitic Studies 69:1 (2024): 231–67. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad010.
Alexei Lyavdansky, Kirill Kozhanov, and Maria Ovsjannikova, The Girl in the Ape’s House: A Folktale in a North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Variety of Urmiya, Russia,Journal of Semitic Studies 69:1 (2024): 231–67, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad010.