Discussion on languages of the Purvanchal region of UP and Urdu

Discussion on languages of the Purvanchal region of UP and Urdu

Description

This is a discussion about the language and language varieties spoken in the districts of the Pūrvānchal region of the state of Uttar Pradesh, such as Maū, Balliā, and Āzamgaṛh. The speaker Mr. Maqsood Khan initiates with a short monologue on the election season in his mother tongue Bhojpuri spoken in his village Jogarī. He then proceeds to the varieties spoken in the region as he seems to have excellent knowledge on the same. The monologue then turns into a discussion about the differences of culture and language of Āzamgaṛh and Maū. It then shifts to the state of Urdu … continued below

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1 recording (14 min., 26 sec.)

Creation Information

Shaikh, Maaz November 22, 2020.

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Shaikh, Maaz

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Titles

Main Title: Discussion on languages of the Purvanchal region of UP and Urdu
Parallel Title: اتر پردیسش كے پوروانچل خطّے كی زبانوں اور اردو پر چرچے كی ویڈیو ركارڈنگ (اردو میں)
Parallel Title: उतर प्रदेश के पूर्वांचल क्षेत्र की भाषाओँ और उर्दू पर चर्चा की विडियो रिकॉर्डिंग (उर्दू में)
Series Title: Maaz Shaikh Collection

Description

This is a discussion about the language and language varieties spoken in the districts of the Pūrvānchal region of the state of Uttar Pradesh, such as Maū, Balliā, and Āzamgaṛh. The speaker Mr. Maqsood Khan initiates with a short monologue on the election season in his mother tongue Bhojpuri spoken in his village Jogarī. He then proceeds to the varieties spoken in the region as he seems to have excellent knowledge on the same. The monologue then turns into a discussion about the differences of culture and language of Āzamgaṛh and Maū. It then shifts to the state of Urdu in India.

Physical Description

1 recording (14 min., 26 sec.)

Notes

This recording is an outcome of an undertaken dialect survey by the researcher and assisted by his uncle Saeeduz Zafar, in the north-eastern part of Mau district to determine the eastern extent of Azamgarhi. In Mr. Maqsood Khan’s village, Jogari, the whole population speaks Bhojpuri, unlike the adjacent village Ropanpur, the last Azamgarhi speaking village in the region. This recording is done at Mr. Zakir Hussain’s P. G. Rahmaniya College in Ropanpur.

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Linguistics

Languages

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Accession or Local Control No: azam2020-11-22_03
Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1803921

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Collections

This video is part of the following collections of related materials.

Azamgarhi Language Resource

This collection includes audio and video recordings of texts; transcriptions, translations, interlinear glossing, and analyses of selected texts; digitized copies of fieldwork notes and photographs documenting fieldwork and other events. The texts are in different genres, such as traditional and children's stories, popular legends, historical accounts, personal narratives, natural conversations, dramas, folk songs, poems, food recipes, discussions on events or items of cultural importance, and discussions on language and linguistic data. Some of them are also in Awadhi and Bhojpuri languages given with a view of (socio)linguistic comparison, whereas some are the outcomes of dialect surveys undertaken to determine the extent of the Azamgarhi language.

Computational Resource on South Asian Languages

The Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) is a digital archive for source audio, video, and text on the minority languages of South Asia.

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