Southern Bashkardi: Text C

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Files belonging with the WOWA South Bashkardi project:

Background to this text:

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. 04:35ff. 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 
] 
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
to 
če 
bekert-o 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'What are you doing?'

2
men 
samåt 
bečint-īn 

I am collecting dung.

3
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
xōb 
, 
daγa 
če 
bekert-o 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'Good; what else are you doing?'

4
nåik 
beovert-īn 

I am bringing grass [for the camels].

5
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
daγa 
če 
bekert-o 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'What else are you doing?'

6
hm 
, 
samåt 
bekåšt-īn 

Hm, I am pulling (???) dung [to the field],

7
nåik 
beovert-īn 

I am bringing grass,

8
samåt 
bekåšt-īn 

‎‎I am pulling (???) dung [to the field].

9
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
xōb 
, 
čī-et 
heš 
az 
zenda-ye 
baškard 
, 
yānī 
čī-et 
heš 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'Well, what do you have from the Bashkardi life, I mean what is yours?'

10
zemī-om 
heš 

I have land.

11
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
daγa 

Kadkhoda: '[What] else?'

12
būv-om 
heš 

I have date palms.

13
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
daγa 

Kadkhoda: '[What] else?'

14
angīr-om 
heš 
, 

I have fig trees.

15
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
daγa 

Kadkhoda: '[What] else?'

16
lålenǰ-om 
heš 

I have orange trees.

17
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
daγa 

Kadkhoda: '[What] else?'

18
anūr-om 
heš 

I have pomegranate trees.

19
[ 
pause 
] 

20
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
berūt-et 
heš 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'Do you have brothers?'

21
berūt-om 
heš 

I have brothers.

22
/ 
0 
: 
30 
/ 
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
xūx-et 
heš 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'Do you have sisters?'

23
xūx-om 
heš 

I have sisters.

24
mūt-om 
heš 

I have a mother [my mother is still with us].

25
båčī-om 
heš 

I have an uncle.

26
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
čan 
berūt-et 
heš 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'How many brothers do you have?'

27
you 
berōt 

One brother.

28
/ 
p6 
/ 
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
čan 
xūx-et 
heš 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'How many sisters do you have?'

29
do 
xōx 

Two sisters.

30
[ 
pause 
] 

31
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
heil-o 
būv-et 
heš 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'Do you have many date palms?'

32
heš-om 
haštåd 
ben 
bū 
. 

I have 80 palm trees.

33
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
heil-o 
zemī-et 
heš 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'Do you have many fields?'

34
heš-om 
čōr 
tag 
zemī 
. 

I have four fields.

35
[ 
pause 
] 

36.1
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
hm 
. 

Kadkhoda: 'Hm.

36.2
xedmat-et 
čī 
e 
? 

What is your job?'

37
xesmat-om 
samåt-čenī 
. 

I collect dung.

38
[ 
pause 
] 

39
/ 
1 
: 
00 
/ 
[ 
IG 
:] 
... 

(something to the effect of:) 'Please repeat / explain!'

40
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
samåtčī 
? 

Dung-collector?

41
samåtčī 
. 

Dung-collector.

42.1
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
hm 
. 

Kadkhoda: 'Hm.

42.2
daγa 
. 

[What] else?'

43
daγa 
-- 
sar 
būv 
arraīn 
. 

Else -- I go up the date palms.

44
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
to 
būv 
azenī 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'Do you strike the dates?'

45
būv 
azanīn 
. 

I strike the dates.

46.1
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
hm 
. 

Kadkhoda: 'Go on.'

46.2
daγa 
. 

else.

47
būv 
azanīn 
. 

I strike the dates.

48
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
būv 
abene 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'Do you bind the dates?'

49
bale 
. 

Yes.

50.1
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
hm 
. 

Kadkhoda: 'Hm.

50.2
daγa 
. 

[What] else?'

51
daγa 
-- 
būv 
aberrīn 
. 

Else -- I cut the dates.

52
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
būv 
aberrē 
? 

Kadkhoda: 'You cut the dates?'

53
bale 
. 

Yes.

54.1
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
hm 
. 

'Hm.

54.2
daγa 
. 

And then?'

55
daγa 
-- 

Then --

56
/ 
1 
: 
30 
/ 
būv 
aberrīn 
. 

‎‎I cut the dates,

57
abarīn 
o 
xom 
eikanīn 

take [them] and put the the dates into [a basket].

58
der-i 
påt 
abarīn 
o 
der-i 
kat 

I put them into a basket, and into a date store.

59
vaxt‑o‑ke 
/ 
p7 
/ 
ba 
dar 
okert-e 
ševī 

When [I?] open the door at night,

60
avarīn 
mahalla 
, 
dar 
okanīn 
o 
aǰüm 
. 

I bring [them] home, I open the door and we eat [them].

61
hamī 
e 
. 

This is it.

62
[ 
Kadxodā 
:] 
... 
da 
ba 
. 

63
[ 
interval 
] 

(sound of tape recorder being switched off)

64
[§ 
2 
] 
men 
rautīn 
håx-m 
argirüt 
. 

I went, left and bought...

65
håx-m 
nerrīn 
. 

I left and didn't go. (?)

66
routīn 
barrev-om 
ba 
xoy-om 
gerüt 
. 

I went [and] took a sheep for myself.

67
barre-ye 
šokāl-om 
. 

A mountain sheep.

68
daγa 
... 

Then...

69
[ 
pause 
, 
people 
talking 
in 
the 
background 
] 

 

Prepared for the WOWA project by Agnes Korn on 18 August 2022