parsi141_SQ_Yuhann

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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/cbe92b2c-8e4f-48f3-8302-72c349cf704b

Title: Sociolinguistic Questionnaire with Yuhann

Description: Anton asks Yuhann, who was brought up in Mumbai and now studies in Chennai, about the language(s) he speaks at home, at school/university, at work and in the street.

Date created: 2020-03-26

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: Younger_generation

Content

Genre: Elicitation

Languages

Language

Name: English

Description: Content Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Working Language

Actor

Full Name: Yuhann Bhumgara

Role: participant

Actor

Full Name: Anton Zykov

Role: researcher

Media Files

Filename: parsi141_SQ_Yuhann.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/54f9e903-a368-442e-beda-37d58d2798b5

File type: Audio

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