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urn:uuid:85330cd5-3962-4026-985a-6342a15b6747 03 15 9781800647688 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 1 1 A01 Geoffrey Khan Geoffrey Khan (PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1984) is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. His research publications focus on three main fields: Biblical Hebrew language (especially medieval traditions), Neo-Aramaic dialectology and medieval Arabic documents. He is the general editor of <italic>The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics</italic> and is the senior editor of <italic>Journal of Semitic Studies</italic>. His most recent book is <italic>The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew</italic>, 2 vols, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 1 (University of Cambridge & Open Book Publishers, 2020). 2 A01 Masoud Mohammadirad Masoud Mohammadirad (PhD, New Sorbonne University, 2020) is a Research Associate in Kurdish language and linguistics at the University of Cambridge. His PhD thesis was a synchronic and diachronic study of pronominal clitics in modern West Iranian languages. His current research focuses on language contact between Iranian languages (Kurdish and Gorani) and Neo-Aramaic. He has published papers on Iranian linguistics in linguistic journals such as <italic>STUF</italic>, <italic>Folia Linguistica</italic>, and <italic>Folia Linguistica Historica</italic>. 3 A01 Dorota Molin Dorota Molin (PhD, University of Cambridge, 2021) is a Research Associate in Hebrew and Aramaic Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Lecturer in Biblical Hebrew Language at the University of Oxford. She has published on language contact in Semitic, Biblical Hebrew phonology and on issues in Neo-Aramaic syntax from a typological and diachronic perspective. Her doctoral thesis is a comparative grammar of a critically endangered Jewish Neo-Aramaic variety. 4 A01 Paul M. Noorlander Paul M. Noorlander (PhD, Leiden University, 2018) is a Research Associate in Hebrew and Aramaic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on Semitic languages, both ancient and modern. His main research concerns the typology of the endangered Neo-Aramaic dialects from an areal-diachronic perspective. He is the author of <italic>Ergativity and Other Alignment Types in Neo-Aramaic: Investigating Morphosyntactic Microvariation</italic> (Leiden: Brill, 2021). 5 A32 Lourd Habeeb Hanna Lourd Habeeb Hanna Chechman is a native speaker of Neo-Aramaic and fluent in different varieties of Kurdish. She has been working to rebuild trust between the different religious and ethnic communities of the region after the trauma of the invasion of Islamic State. She co-founded and was president of the Middle East Sustainable Peace Organization (2016-17). In 2018 she became the leader of a project on social cohesion for the Catholic Relief Services and USAID. She has also been a fellow in the United States Institute of Peace. Currently Lourd heads the Civil Society Initiatives Unit at the International Commission on Missing Persons in Iraq. 6 A32 Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari (PhD, Salahaddin University, Erbil, 2018) is a lecturer in the English Department of the Catholic University of Erbil, Iraq. He was born in the village of Upper Gerbish in the area of Nekhla, North of Aqra. For his PhD thesis he documented the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Aqra region. 7 A32 Salim Abraham Salim Disho Lazar Abraham is a freelance journalist working currently on a book on the most recent suffering of Assyrians at the hands of the Islamic State organization (ISIS.) He obtained his Master of Science degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York, USA, in 2006. He also holds a bachelor degree and post-graduate degree in English literature and Arabic-English translation from Aleppo and Damascus universities in Syria. He was born in the Assyrian quarter of Qamishli (north-eastern Syria), where almost all Assyrian dialects of Hakkari (south-eastern Turkey) were represented. He himself hails from Birij, Tkhuma, one of the largest tribes of Hakkari Assyrians. 01 eng 02 kur 02 syr 00 372 03 23 Aramaic-speaking Jews 23 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 12 CFF 04 GR295.I7 10 LAN009010 23 Aramaic-speaking ('Syriac') Christians 12 CFP 23 Folklore and Ethnology 10 HIS026030 12 1FBQ 23 ethno-religious communities 23 Linguistics 10 SOC011000 12 2BXK 23 folklore narratives 23 Literature 12 2CSA 23 Kurdish Muslims 12 JFHF 23 North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic 23 Northern and Central Kurdish 23 northern Iraq 01 06 03 00 This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews. The first volume contains several introductory chapters on language, folkore motifs and narrative style, followed by samples of glossed texts in each language variety. The second volume is the anthology proper, presenting folklore narratives in several distinct varieties of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic and Northern and Central Kurdish. The stories are accompanied by English translations. The material includes different genres such as folktales, legends, fables and anecdotes, and is organised into seven thematic units. The folkloristic material of these three communities is shared to a large extent. The anthology is, therefore, a testament to the intimate and long-standing relations between these three ethno-religious communities—relations that existed in a multilingual environment centuries before the modern era of nationalism. 04 00 LIST OF TABLES AND MAPS .............................................x LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS.......................xi CONTRIBUTORS AND COLLABORATORS..................... xiii PREFACE .......................................................................xvii REFERENCES..................................................................xxi PROLEGOMENA Paul M. Noorlander and Dorota Molin 1. Introduction to a Comparative Corpus of Oral Literature................................................................... 1 Dorota Molin 2. The Folkloristic Heritage of Kurds, Jews and Syriac Christians of Northern Iraq........................... 35 Paul M. Noorlander and Masoud Mohammadirad 3. Narrative Style and Discourse in Kurdish and Neo-Aramaic Oral Literature ................................... 85 Geoffrey Khan ChA. Dure (Text 8).................................................... 159 ChA. Shaqlawa (Text 28) .......................................... 165 Dorota Molin ChA. Duhok (Text 14) ............................................... 179 JA. Duhok (Text 16).................................................. 196 ChA. Enishke (Text 6) ............................................... 205 JA. Zakho (Text 25) .................................................. 216 ChA. Zakho (Text 10)................................................ 222 Paul M. Noorlander ChA. Harmashe (Text 33).......................................... 234 KURDISH Masoud Mohammadirad NK. Duhok (Text 30)................................................. 248 NK. Dure (Text 20).................................................... 274 NK. Khizava (Text 7)................................................. 286 NK. Zakho (Text 11).................................................. 302 CK. Shaqlawa (Text 19)............................................. 316 INDEX .....................................................................331 Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20220630 02 WORLD 06 15 9781800647664 06 15 9781800647671 06 15 9781800647688 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 01