Some Gorani Lyric Verse
Subject Areas : Linguistics,dialectology,folklore,literature
1 - PhD in Linguistics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Kurdish language, Iranian languages, Dialectology, Gurani, Minoru,
Abstract :
Since its debut in 1881, when Charkes Rieu´s brief but masterly grammatical sketch appeared, the Gorani koine has become one of the Cinderellas of Iranian studies, literary and linguistic.Apart from a notice by E. B. Soane, of which more below, its only real outing has been in Professor Minorsky´s compendious article on the Goran, containing an illustrated survey of all the epic, lyric, and religious verse then known in Gorani. The surviving manuscripts acquired by Pofessor Minorsky he has since donated to the Leningrad branch of the Oriental Institute (Institut Narodov Azzi AN), where they remain unpublished. The same is true of the many MSS acquired by Oskar Mann for the former Preussische Staatsbibliothek and of the passages which he transcribed and intended to publish as a volume. Proben aus der Goran-Literature of his Kurdisch-Persische Forschungen. Only lately has M. Mokri begun to draw upon his personal collection of MSS with the publication of a religious poem emanating from the Ahl-i Haqq sect.
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