Who Killed Osman Xate?Aramaic 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/ZWGX4SJF/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Charles G.HäberlKseniaKashintsevaSergeyLoesovWho Killed Osman Xate?http://syriaca.org/cbss/ZWGX4SJFhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/ZWGX4SJFhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/ZWGX4SJFAramaic Studies20:22022213-273The grammar of the village dialects of Ṭuroyo remains poorly described apart from that of Midən, and within the documentation there is a dearth of spontaneous conversations. Consequently, much about Ṭuroyo pragmatics and sociolinguistics in general also remains undescribed. We therefore present two short conversations between three residents of Kfarze in Tur Abdin, concerning a significant event in its recent history, together with a translation and a glossary. In addition to their value as oral histories of the Christian-Kurdish relationship in the region, they reveal significant details about the dialect of Kfarze, including 1) the contraction of triphthongs in ii-<i>y</i> verbs; 2) nouns consistently marked with <i>l</i>- when they express the agent of an ‘ergative’ preterite; and 3) the retention of ‘soft’ (unaspirated) <i>ḳ</i> in Kurmanji loan vocabulary. The presence of the last feature, and of frequent code-switching between Ṭuroyo and Kurmanji in the spontaneous speech of these villagers, attests to the bilingual situation in Kfarze.
Häberl, Charles G., Ksenia Kashintseva, and Sergey Loesov. “Who Killed Osman Xate?” Aramaic Studies 20:2 (2022): 213–73. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10033.
Charles G. Häberl, Ksenia Kashintseva, and Sergey Loesov, Who Killed Osman Xate?,Aramaic Studies 20:2 (2022): 213–73, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/17455227-bja10033.JacobitesKurdsModern SyriacMuslim-Christian relationsSyriac languageTur AbdinTuroyoXIX-XXI CEXXI CEprimary sources [Syriac] + English translation