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xizhan_10

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0002-F1C7-D

Title: xizhan_10

Description: A shepherd was told that he would get as many sheep as he could throw over the fence. He had to take care of the sheep for a year but he was allowed to eat only bread and onion. He couldn't do it. A man told him that he has to eat the onion without the skin. After that he could throw a sheep over the fence.Dialect: StandardEquipment: Marantz PMD 660, Microphone 1000 DX Access: S

Date created: Unspecified

Location

Continent: Europe

Country: Russian Federation

Region: Chechnya/Chechen Republic

Address: Salazhi

Project

ID: IGS0057

Name: Chechen

Description: The goal of this collection is twofold:(1) to complete a reference grammar of Chechen (of which 20% is already drafted), which will be submitted as a PhD dissertation at the University of Leipzig;(2) as the empirical basis of this, to collect, transcribe, annotate, and publish an audio- visual corpus of Chechen.The focus of the grammar is on morphology and morphosyntax, especially on hitherto unknown structures in the evidentiality/mirativity system. The focus of the corpus will be on the speech of monolingual speakers who preserve structures that disappeared from speech of younger generations due to influence of Russian.Chechen is a Northeast Caucasian (aka Nakh-Dagestanian) language with several dialectal variants, including Cheberloi. There are over one million native speakers of Chechen. However, most speakers who are younger than 70 years old are bilingual and most often proficient in Russian. The number of monolingual speakers is very low: they are either over 70 years old or belong to a very few who grew up in rural areas and had no chance to receive a secondary education. Language proficiency in Chechen depends to a great extent on the place of origin of the speaker and the language spoken at home in his/her family. Most Chechens who grew up in the city are more fluent in Russian or can understand Chechen, but do not speak it.Chechen is not traditionally a written language. The first version of the Chechen alphabet was introduced in the 19th century with a version of the Arabic alphabet. In the 1920s it was written using the Latin alphabet, but in the 1930s an orthographic system based on the Cyrillic alphabet was created and adopted.Chechen is reported to have the following dialects: Akkin (Aux), Cheberloi, Itumkala (Shatoi), Kistin, Melkhin, annd Ploskost. Alternate names: Galancho, Nokchiin Muott, Nokhchiin.