Tajik Linguistics

Tajik Linguistics

Author: Shinji Ido

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-01-30

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 3110619539

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It is hardly an overstatement to say that Soviet linguists had a monopoly over Tajik linguistics before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when most studies on the language were accessible exclusively through Russian and Tajik. Today, however, linguists dealing with Tajik are diverse not only in terms of their location but also in terms of their disciplinary orientation within linguistics, making it difficult for the general linguist to work out the state of the art of the linguistic study of Tajik. This volume aims to address this difficulty by collecting in a handbook format recent (post-Soviet) developments in the study of Tajik that now lie scattered in different subdisciplines of linguistics. The volume thus showcases the state of the art of post-Soviet Tajik linguistics and can be used as a guide for linguists interested in the language.


Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan

Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan

Author: Kamoludin Abdullaev

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2010-04-27

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 0810873796

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The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan chronicles this country through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions, as well as significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects.


Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism

Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism

Author: Alanna E. Cooper

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2012-12-07

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0253006430

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Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections to the wider Jewish world. As the community began to disperse after the fall of the Soviet Union, Alanna E. Cooper traveled to Uzbekistan to document Jewish life before it disappeared. Drawing on ethnographic research there as well as among immigrants to the US and Israel, Cooper tells an intimate and personal story about what it means to be Bukharan Jewish. Together with her historical research about a series of dramatic encounters between Bukharan Jews and Jews in other parts of the world, this lively narrative illuminates the tensions inherent in maintaining Judaism as a single global religion over the course of its long and varied diaspora history.


The Personal History of a Bukharan Intellectual

The Personal History of a Bukharan Intellectual

Author: Muḥammad Sharif-i Ṣadr-i Ziyā

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-22

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 9047412370

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Sadr-i-Ziya's Diary lends valuable perspective to numerous studies narrowly focused upon the modern Reformists (Jadids) of his area. It also, and perhaps in the first place, reveals the endless occupational and mortal uncertainties tormenting a Central Asian Islamic judge practicing his profession within an aged political and economical system deteriorating during the last decades, ca. 1880-1920, of the state of Bukhara. By supplying a Bukharan intellectual's personal history, Sadr-i Ziya, author, poet and calligrapher, also reveals himself as an admirable human being who enjoys life but endures the repeated, scalding experience of losing beloved children, their mothers, and other family members, in an era when medicine and prayer scarcely deterred the multitude of prevailing inflictions. Nothwithstanding this strong focus upon his personal life, Sadr-i Ziya provides an unparalleled view of the central role played by the omnipresent religious hierarchy in his homeland.


Agglutinative Information

Agglutinative Information

Author: Shinji Ido

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9783447048354

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This book analyses 'incomplete sentences' in languages that utilise distinctively agglutinative components in their morphology. In the grammars of the languages dealt with in this book, there are certain types of sentences which are variously referred to as 'elliptical sentences' (Turkish eksiltili cumleler), 'incomplete sentences' (Uzbek to'liqsiz gaplar), 'cutoff sentences' (Turkish kesik cumleler), etc., for which the grammarians provide elaborated semantic and syntactic analyses. The current work attempts to present an alternative approach for the analysis of such sentences. The distribution of morphemes in incomplete sentences is examined closely, based on which a system of analysis that can handle a variety of incomplete sentences in an integrated manner is proposed from a morphological point of view. The linguistic data are taken from Turkish, Uzbek, Japanese, and (Bukharan) Tajik.


Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan

Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan

Author: Kamolidin Nadzhmidinovich Abdullaev

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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This Dictionary supplies essential information for anyone interested in the country of region, including librarians, students, scholars, and diplomats. It offers insight into the old kingdoms and empires, the old communist state, and now the independent republic. This is conveyed mainly through numerous entries on persons, places, events, institutions, ethnic groups, political, economic, social, and cultural issues.


Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939

Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939

Author: Zeev Levin

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9004294716

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Zeev Levin seeks to provide a comprehensive picture of government efforts to socialize the Jewish masses in Uzbekistan, a process in which the central Soviet government took part, together with the local, republican and regional administrations and Soviet Jewish activists. This research presents a chapter in the history of the Jews in Uzbekistan, as well as contributing to the study of the socialization process of the Jewish population in the USSR in general. It also contributes to the study of relations among political and government bodies and decision makers. The study is based on archival documents and provides a unique glance at the implementation of Soviet nationalities policy towards Bukharan Jews while comparing it to other national minority groups in Uzbekistan.


The Personal History of a Bukharan Intellectual

The Personal History of a Bukharan Intellectual

Author: Sharīf Jān Makhdūm Ṣadr Z̤iyāʼ

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9789004131613

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"The Diary" offers priceless documentation and guidance for an understanding of the rigidity that characterized the Bukharan Amirate throughout its tumultuous final decades of existence, ca. 1880-1920.


The Birth of Tajikistan

The Birth of Tajikistan

Author: Paul Bergne

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2007-06-29

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0857710915

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When the Bolshevik Revolution broke out in October 1917, much of Central Asia was still ruled by autonomous rulers such as the Emir of Bukhara and the Khan of Khiva. By 1920 the khanates had been transformed into People's Republics. In 1924, Stalin re-drew the frontiers of the region on ethno-linguistic lines creating, amongst other statelets, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan - the land of the Uzbeks. But the Turkic Uzbeks were not the only significant ethnic group within the new Uzbekistan's frontiers. The Persian-speaking Tajiks formed a considerable part of the population. This book describes how, often in the teeth of Uzbek opposition, the Tajiks gained, first an autonomous oblast (administrative region) within Uzbekistan, then an autonomous republic, and finally, in 1929, the status of a full Soviet Union Republic. Once the Tajiks had been granted a territory of their own, they began to strive for a national identity and to create national pride. Their new government had not only to survive the civil war that followed the revolution but then to build an entirely new country in an immensely inhospitable terrain. New frontiers had to be wrested from neighbours, and a new cultural identity, 'national in form but socialist in content', had to be created, which was to be an example to other Persian speakers in the region. Paul Bergne has produced the first documentation of how the idea of a Tajik state came into being and offers a vivid history of the birth of a nation.