A Short Story in Baluchi Language from the Hosey-e Kord-e Šabestarī Cycle
Subject Areas : Linguistics,dialectology,folklore,literature
1 - Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
Keywords: Baluchi Language, Hoseyn-e Kord, Kurdish Origins, Baluchi Folklore, Sarāwānī Dialect,
Abstract :
The paper presents a small text in the Sarāwānī dialect of Baluchi about the famous hero Hoseyn-e Kord. The Baluchi story is a well-known episode from the cycle of Hoseyn-e Kord-e Šabestarī, where the hero shows his supernatural strength and gains a high social status. At the same time, for the Kord tribe in Iranian Baluchistan, Hoseyn-e Kord is not only a folkloric personage, but features as an eponym, the legendary forefather of the tribesman.The paper presents a small text in the Sarāwānī dialect of Baluchi about the famous hero Hoseyn-e Kord. The Baluchi story is a well-known episode from the cycle of Hoseyn-e Kord-e Šabestarī, where the hero shows his supernatural strength and gains a high social status. At the same time, for the Kord tribe in Iranian Baluchistan, Hoseyn-e Kord is not only a folkloric personage, but features as an eponym, the legendary forefather of the tribesman.
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