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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/7d4c5837-6fd7-4761-b2d2-bdd9006b56d0

Title: Sociolinguistic Questionnaire with Zurvan

Description: Anton asks Zurvan, who was born and brought up in Canada and currently visits his grandparents in Mumbai, about the language(s) he speaks at home, at school/university, work and in the street. Note that the attitude towards PG as an identity language of the Parsi Community is maintained in the diaspora. However, it becomes less so, since the community in Canada to a large extent consists of Iranian Zoroastrians Also interesting is the attitude to other Indian languages, the command of which is typical for sociolinguistic situation the Mumbai Parsis: Hindi and Marathi. The questionnaire that Anton has by and large followed in the course of this recording is also a part of this recording. The whole conversation is recorded in English (hence, no transription made), as that's the language Zurvan is more comfortable speaking, despite a good command of PG.

Date created: 2020-04-07

Location

Continent: Asia

Country: India

Region: Maharashtra

Address: Mumbai

Project

ID: IGS0323

Name: 0518-IGS0323

Description: The collection contains recordings of the Parsi language (Parsi Gujarati or PG) is spoken exclusively by the Zoroastrian community living in India, most of whom refer to themselves as Parsis. Another sub-group consisting of the descendants of Iranian Zoroastrians who have been arriving mainly to Bombay (now Mumbai) since the late 19th - early 20th century, are knows as Iranis and predominantly speak a variety of Parsi distinguished by specific syntactic and lexical features.The recordings encompass various unique Parsi-Zoroastrian rites de passages: initiation (navjote), marriage (arusi), and funeral (dakhmenashini) rituals, the latter exclusively performed by few hereditary corpse-bearers (khandiyars and nasusalars). The collection also has daily conversations as well naturally generated discourses from difference gender, socio-economic, geographical and age dimensions of the Parsi community.Citation bundle: Zykov, Anton. 2021. Videography-based documentation of the language of Parsis in Gujarat and Maharashtra. London: SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive. URL: https://www.elararchive.org/dk0518/. Accessed on July 2, 2021

Topics

Topic: Sociolinguistics

Keywords

Keyword: Diaspora

Content

Genre: Elicitation

Languages

Language

Name: English

Description: Content Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Working Language

Actor

Full Name: Zurvan Chothia

Role: participant

Actor

Full Name: Anton Zykov

Role: participant

Actor

Full Name: Anton Zykov

Role: researcher

Media Files

Filename: parsi143_SQ_Zurvan.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/b41f7ac3-23e4-49d3-a63d-c1fd8d168651

File type: Audio

Access: O

Written Resources

Filename: Sociolinguistic_questionnaire.pdf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/0aad6ab8-dbb8-4f7b-9a77-bdf3634f1274

File type: Document

Access: O

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