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Title:Great Lent
Qustan391
Documentation of the Beth Qustan Dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic language, Turoyo
Contributor (consultant):Musa Duman
Coverage:Germany
Date:2016-09-02
Description:Musa tells us that they used to fast 50 days during the Great Lent. However, they did not have clocks to know the time they could eat. Their parents had taught them how to tell the time by measuing their shadow in the middle of the day. He also explains the type of foods they eat when fasting.
The Beth Qustan dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic, Turoyo, which is the language of Tur 'Abdin, South Eastern Turkey, with an estimated 20 families remaining in the village.This project will document socio-cultural practices of the Turoyo speaking community in Tur 'Abdin, focusing on vernacular tales, particularly those that demonstrate cultural interaction between Muslims and Christians, including Muslim visitations to the shrines of Christian saints, and consultation of soothsayers by Christians.
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Musa was born in the village of Beth Qustan in 1951 and immegrated to Germany in 1968.
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Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1048940
IPF0244
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1048940%23
Publisher:Mikael Oez
SOAS, University of London
Subject:Narrative
Turoyo language
English language
Subject (ISO639):tru
eng
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Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1048940
DateStamp:  2017-03-18
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Citation: Musa Duman (consultant). 2016-09-02. Mikael Oez.
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