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Documentation of Brahui as an endangered language

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The picture demonstrates Brahui’s daily life. Photo of Dorjan Brahui by Fatemeh Noorzaei, 2022. Click on image to access collection.

Language Brahui
Depositor Maryam Nourzaei
Affiliation Uppsala university
Location Iran
Collection ID 0731
Grant ID
Funding Body
Collection Status Collection online
Landing page handle http://hdl.handle.net/2196/o79k0090-7540-0g0p-971q-z5n34588712a

 

Summary of the collection

In the current version of the collection, the corpus consists of approximately one hour of recorded, naturally spoken
Folktales;
Biographical tales;
Procedural texts;
and questionnaire data.

 

Group represented

The group presented here is the Brahui people. Similar to other groups in this province, such as the Afro-Baloch and Jadgal, they are not aware of their origin. Some consider themselves separate from the Baloch and call themselves Brahui, and others just call themselves Balochi. However, the Baloch people consider them to be a separate ethnic group and call them Brahui. Similar to Baloch people, Brahui people are classified based on their own tribes. Brahui speakers are multilingual, typically speaking several or all of Persian/Sistani Persian, Balochi, and Brahui, and some are good at Pashto. Only their language distinguishes them from other groups in the region. They share the same traditions and customs with the Baloch people. The new generation does not speak Brahui; instead they have switched to either Balochi or Persian.
I wish to thank all the Brahui people in these villages for accepting and hosting me, in particular the Brahui families living in Zabol, Koren, Lotak and Nosrat Abbad.

 

Collection contents

In the current version of the collection, the corpus consists of approximately one hour of recorded, naturally spoken
Folktales;
Biographical tales;
Procedural texts;
and questionnaire data.

 

Acknowledgement and citation

Users of any part of this collection should acknowledge Maryam Nourzaei as the main investigator and collector, and Fatemeh Noorzaei as a core member of the research team. The main participants who have shared their narrations should also be acknowledged by name. The relevant information is available in the metadata.

To refer to any data from the collection, please cite as follows:

Nourzaei, Maryam. 2023. Documentation of Brahui as an endangered laguage. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/e89k0760-7540-3o1h-971q-e5e36288712e . Accessed on [insert date here].

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