The texts in this data set stem from an ELDP language documentation grant project titled \dqt{Documenting New Year ceremonies of Tats of Upper Tāromi in Hazārrud}\footnote{ELDP Grant ID: SG0598; ELDP Collection ID: 0626; ELDP URL: \url{https://www.elararchive.org/dk0626}} which includes traditional tales and memories recounted by the remaining old generation of Tāti speakers of the village \pcite{IzadifarForthcoming}.
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The texts were recorded in parallel audio and video formats, then transcribed, translated, and glossed in ELAN by Raheleh Izadifar.
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The speaker is one of the last Tāti speakers in Hazārrud village and speaks Turkish and Persian in addition to Tāti.
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As recounted by the villagers, the native inhabitants of this village spoke Tāti up until the previous century, but it was replaced by Turkic and later Persian in recent decades.
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The village is highly Turkic/Persian bilingual now and only a couple of elderly people were still speaking fluent Tāti at the time of recording in 2020.
