Documentation of oral narration and storytelling in Balochi spoken in Iran
Two singers are singing. Photo of Sarok and Hani by Maryam Nourzaei, 2009. Click on image to access collection.
| Language | Balochi |
| Depositor | Maryam Nourzaei |
| Affiliation | Uppsala University |
| Location | Iran |
| Collection ID | 0732 |
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| Funding Body | |
| Collection Status | Collection online |
| Landing page handle | http://hdl.handle.net/2196/u89m7604-5319-4j8w-066s-k5b95245898g |
Summary of the collection
In the current version of the collection, the corpus consists of approximately 80 hours of recorded naturally spoken
Folktales;
Fairy tales;
Legends;
Islamic tales.
Group represented
The group presented here is the Baloch. The Balochi language belongs to the northwest Iranian branch of the Iranian languages, which in turn belong to the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European. It has three main dialects: Southern, Eastern and Western Balochi. Each of these dialects presents its own sub-divisions (see Jahani and Korn 2009). Balochi is mostly spoken in southeastern Iran and southwestern Pakistan,but is also found in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Oman and the UAE. All Baloch people call themselves Baloch except for Koroshi people, who call themselves either Korosh or Qashqai, although their language is Balochi.
I would like to extend my special gratitude to Abdol Naser Pasand’s family, the Samadi family, Mohammad Jadgal’s family, Mohammad Latif Shaykhzadeh, Waja Ali, Waja Mohammad, and Mostafa Tarbar for providing data for the Coastal Balochi dialect, and for introducing well-known storytellers to me and kindly accommodating them in their homes in order to facilitate my work. My special thanks go to the wives in the families for being extremely welcoming and generous hosts to all the storytellers.
For the Koroshi dialect, I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Manuchehr Samsanian and Hossein Gholi Bahman-Nia, who helped me with my field studies. My special thanks go to Manuchehr Samsanian and his daughter Zahra Samsanian for helping me to double-check my data, and to the Alipour family for hosting me while I carried out my fieldwork.
With respect to Sistani Balochi, I would like to thank Azim Narooei, Id Mohammad Isazaei, Bibi Jan Nourzaei, Golpari Nourzaei, Kajir Nourzaei and Abdollah Nourzaei’s family for helping me with my field studies.
Collection contents
In the current version of the collection, the corpus consists of approximately 80 hours of recorded naturally spoken
Folktales;
Fairy tales;
Legends;
Islamic tales.
Acknowledgement and citation
Users of any part of this collection should acknowledge Maryam Nourzaei as the main investigator, and Ehsan Noorzaei, Abdul Naser Pasand and Manucher Samsaniyan, as core members 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. Documentaton of oral narration and storytelling in Balochi spoken in Iran. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/e00m7834-9639-4g0n-876b-p5b64149790d. Accessed on [insert date here].
