Afghan folktales from Herat : Persian texts in transcription and translation / Youli Ioannesyan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ioannesi︠a︡n, I︠U︡liĭ Arkadʹevich.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Tales--Afghanistan--Herāt (Province).

Tales.

Dari language--Dialects.

Dari language.

Afghanistan--Herāt (Province).

Dari language--Dialects--Afghanistan--Herāt (Province).

Physical Description:

xv, 319 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, [2009]

Summary:

Presents a collection of folktales in the Herati dialect of the Afghan Persian language, in Latin-based transliteration and English translation, supplied by phonetic and grammatical commentaries, explanations of cultural terms, and preceded by an introduction with a review of the Herati dialect. Based on academically informed fieldwork and presented in a scientific fashion, the materials were collected by the author during field research in Afghanistan in the 1980s from illiterate dialect speakers (a category which has preserved the dialect the most in terms of purity and entirety).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1604976527

9781604976526

OCLC:

437054171

Publisher Number:

99944378942