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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/1c4cad3f-8b46-4483-a15e-79f3e9150d60

Title: Corona Talk

Description: Jhangu and his school friend Rumi talk about the concequences of Coronavirus for Mumbai. Notice that the first part of the conversation is almost entirely in English, as Rumi addressed Anton, who is behind the camera. However, during this recording Anton deliberately pretended he was not part of the discussion and even left the room for sometime. Despite that, Rumi continued his discourse in English. Only after the topic was exhausted and the conversation shifted to routine matters, Rumi, how mainly addressing Jhangu rather than the video camera, shifted almost completely to PG after the topic changed to

Date created: 2020-04-16

Location

Continent: Asia

Country: India

Region: Maharashtra

Address: Mumbai

Project

ID: IGS0323

Name: 0518-IGS0323

Description: The collection contains recordings of the Parsi language (Parsi Gujarati or PG) is spoken exclusively by the Zoroastrian community living in India, most of whom refer to themselves as Parsis. Another sub-group consisting of the descendants of Iranian Zoroastrians who have been arriving mainly to Bombay (now Mumbai) since the late 19th - early 20th century, are knows as Iranis and predominantly speak a variety of Parsi distinguished by specific syntactic and lexical features.The recordings encompass various unique Parsi-Zoroastrian rites de passages: initiation (navjote), marriage (arusi), and funeral (dakhmenashini) rituals, the latter exclusively performed by few hereditary corpse-bearers (khandiyars and nasusalars). The collection also has daily conversations as well naturally generated discourses from difference gender, socio-economic, geographical and age dimensions of the Parsi community.Citation bundle: Zykov, Anton. 2021. Videography-based documentation of the language of Parsis in Gujarat and Maharashtra. London: SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive. URL: https://www.elararchive.org/dk0518/. Accessed on July 2, 2021

Topics

Topic: Health

Keywords

Keyword: Covid-19

Content

Genre: Interactive_discourse

Languages

Language

Name: Parsi

Description: Content Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Content Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Working Language

Actor

Full Name: Rumi Engineer

Role: participant

Actor

Full Name: Jehangir Dotiwalla

Role: participant

Actor

Full Name: Anton Zykov

Role: participant

Media Files

Filename: parsi127_Corona_talk.mp4

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/2b5a6bc1-2d21-46c1-ab78-db22e0cff721

File type: Video

Access: O

Written Resources

Filename: parsi127_Corona_talk_20220912.eaf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/1d8b2596-e025-4875-b138-e5814be46265

File type: ELAN

Access: O

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