This text was recorded by Ilya Gershevitch in Iran in 1956 and belongs to the Gershevitch archive housed by the Ancient India and Iran Trust in Cambridge / UK.
The sound file is track 1, min. 02:50ff. on the CD A3.
The text has not been published yet.
There is a handwritten transcription with some notes (hence the p. numbers) by Ilya Gershevitch in the archive (Bundle "Tape I").
Not using this, Bakhtiar Seddiqi Nejad in cooperation with Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz produced a preliminary transcription.
Based on these materials, Agnes Korn elaborated a considerably revised transcription (checked several times against the soundfiles), a morphosyntactic analysis (using Flex software), and the English translation, which likewise reflects Agnes Korn's understanding
of the text, its morphosyntax and textual structure.
Texts A-C seem to have been recorded in the same setting, perhaps even on the same occasion. Apparently Ilya Gershevitch is with the Kadxodâ of Jakdân, who is trying to motivate villagers to talk to Gershevitch, i.e. to the tape recorder.
Text and translation:
1
/§
1
/
hålå
īvåda
mon
arrom
meil
ešter
xwa
,
ačenom
xoreš
.
Now I go to (?) my camels, I collect fodder.
2
pasīn
ǰåh
akanom
ayåom
,
In the afternoon I set out [and] come.
3
xar-šun
bordoh-om
sardašt
,
They brought my donkey to to Sardasht.
4
a
sardašt
yå
...
arrom
kolurū
,
[After] coming [back] from Sardasht, I go to Koluru,
5
ačenom
alaf
,
I fetch grass,
6
ǰåh
akanom
ayåom
a
laharon
.
I set off [and] come home.
7
pū
abīn
arraīn
ǰån
xwa
ašīn
,
I get up (? or rather: dismount from the camel?), go [and] wash myself,
8
apīn
del
lahar
,
anenīn
,
[then] come into the house [and] sit down.
9
dar
agerīn
ī
bå
lahåfa
,
I shut the door (?) ...
10
dar
agerīn
atowīn
.
I shut the door (?) [and] sleep.
11
beribün
pū
abīn
,
arraīn
daγa
šahr
,
apīn
mahalad
,
Tomorrow, I will get up, go to another oasis, [then] come home.
12
arraīn
kolurū
,
arraīn
sar-šam
,
I will go to Koluru, I will go to Sar-Sham,
13
ačenīn
kū
,
apīn
ba
mahalad
,
I will fetch grass [and] come home.
14
arraīn
ačenīn
dūr
,
[Then] I will go [and] fetch wood
15
daγar
apīn
ba
mahalad
.
[and] come home again.
16
(
other
speaker
?):
17
/§
2
/
/
p4
/
müt-om
heš
,
bap-om
mex
,
My mother is alive, my father died (I have a mother, but no father),
18
berūt-om
heš
,
daγa
berūt-om
heš
,
I have a brother, I have another brother,
19
xūx-om
heš
,
xūx-om
daγa
heš
,
--
I have a sister, I have another sister,
20
kakō-om
mex
,
my grandmother died.
21
/§
3
/
nün-om
ǰüx
,
čåhī-om
ǰüx
,
--
äh
--
če
--
I ate bread, I drank tea -- what [was it] --
22
nün
yer
čåhī
xoy-om
ǰüx-e
,
I ate bread with my tea.
23
čåhī-om
ǰüx
sahar-gāh
.
I drank tea in the early morning.
24
vux-īn
nešx-īn
,
I came [and] sat down
25
ešter
xoy-om
čarånx
[and] grazed my camels.
26
hamīnǰå
bex
ešter
xoy-om
vel
ke
,
brought [them] here, I released my camels,
27
routīn
bånan
xoy-om
dar
overt
,
I went [and] took out my ropes [in order to fix the front feet of the camels],
28
ba
to-om
dīt
.
[Then] I saw you.
29
/§
4
/
balōčkåran
hamord
aten
yok
balōčkåra-e
yok
naxīb
,
The freemen were there, one freeman and one servant.
30
karan-ih
būr
aten
ī
kam-ih
lek
kerten
His donkeys were loaded [and] he brought them onto the mountain.
Prepared for the WOWA project by Agnes Korn on 18 August 2022