Comments for The Yaghnobi

Comment on Online Yaghnobi Lexicon by lavrent

lavrent — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:10:05 +0000

First, Bahron, thanks a lot for your thesis which I did’nt already read, but only some passages which seem very interesting!

lubossekk, >> what you say of digor dialect about the genetive case after numbers is also true of iron dialect, but it does’nt mean that ossetian come from soghdian :most of scholars disagree on this point with your thesis bahrom.

You have just to compare Abaev etymological dictionnary to see how far it is from farsi and tadjik. I personnaly speak ossetian language but I am unable to understand a single phrase of tadjik or farsi which come from another branch (south oriental) of iranian tongues.

bahrom >> When I read to the lexicon you made, most of words linkded with tadjik are very different in ossetian tongue (of course I am not speaking of russian words used in ossetain, but truly ossetian words).

Ossetian comes from the scytho-sarmatian branch (northeast branch from iranian tongues) just the evolution of Alan language. This language is a lot more diferent from tadjik than yaghnobi is.
And from an historico-geographical point of view, is’nt it so strange that Ossetian is at the same time in the area of the old Alanian kingdom and unlinked by you with alanian origin?

When you read the Narts tales (ossetian legends), the only auto-denomination of all ossetian people (digor and iron) is “alon” which is the logical historical evolution from alan in ossetian language.

Whatever, I am very interested to discover the links between ossetian language and yaghnobi,

thanks for all your work,

Lavrent

Comment on Yaghnobi Language Resources by Doug Hitch

Doug Hitch — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:47:15 +0000

Nice site
Excellent quality sound recording. this page should be accessible from your top menu.
Masthead: langauge > language
irrigator discussion: genetive > genitive
About -i, instead of OBL, why not just -i ? Or, you could break it down according to morphosyntactic function, e.g., -iA(djective), -iG(enitive).
I would prefer traditional roman transcription over IPA — if you can get that past your supervisor.

Comment on The king and his water-man: Yaghnobi recording and text by lubossekk

lubossekk — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:45:26 +0000

Adam, there is no specific musical tradition among the Yaghnobis, it is similar to Tajik music. Up to recent years there was no music in Yaghnobi language, nowadays the situation changes - yet 1 CD with Yaghnobi music was released in Tajikistan.

Comment on The king and his water-man: Yaghnobi recording and text by Adam

Adam — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:55:02 +0000

Hi,
is there a specific yaghnob musical tradition? Did anyone collected it?

Comment on Abstract of a Yaghnobi Grammar Sketch by Engineer Baig Ali, Islamabad

Engineer Baig Ali, Islamabad — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:21:11 +0000

VERY INTERESTING I M TOOJIK, BUT RARELY HERAED ABOUT THE LANGUAGE. NO DOUBT, I TRAVELLED CENTRAL ASIA ONCE, IF ANY ONE HELP ME IN DETAIL ABOUT THE ALPHABETS AND OTHER BASIC INFORMATION

Comment on Online Yaghnobi Lexicon by lubossekk

lubossekk — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:11:01 +0000

For all interested in Iranian etymologies - a link to Historical-etymological dictionary of Ossetic by V. I. Abayev : http://www.allingvo.ru/LANGUAGE/etimolog_slovar.htm

Comment on Online Yaghnobi Lexicon by Nicola Curat

Nicola Curat — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:10:32 +0000

This is also a very good surprise for me to find a Yaghnobi dictionary. I’m hardly working on an Ossetic dictionary that I think I’ll need several months of work yet before publishing…
I’d be keen to find soon some other forgotten Iranian languages
I’m personnaly quite interested about Iranian languages such as Ossetic but also Wakhi and all the Pamir area. A pity that it is so difficult to find more ressources…

Comment on Online Yaghnobi Lexicon by Bahrom

Bahrom — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:27:41 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about the problem with the online version of the dictionary. I’ll take a look at it and see what is going on.

By the way, I would enjoy hearing about your interests. Are you interested in a particular area of linguistics, or a particular language family?

Comment on Online Yaghnobi Lexicon by Rémy Viredaz

Rémy Viredaz — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:15:12 +0000

Hello,
I was very pleased to find a Yaghnobi dictionary on the web.
There is a curious thing with the English-Yaghnobi clickable version. It does not show all English words beginning with E, or with W, or with M, but only those beginning with Ea, Wa, Ma-Me.
However this is not a problem since words such as Eye, White, Mother can be searched for (and found) in the PDF version, which looks very fine by the way.
All the best,
Remy

Comment on Yagnobi or Yaghnobi? by Yooness Nabavian

Yooness Nabavian — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:47:26 +0000

I personaly feel the name must have been JAA GON AABII.

JAA=place
GON=plenty
AABI=watery or bluish

But I am neither a linguist nor a scholar. I believe the sound of “J” and “G” went through a lot transformation after the Arabic influence.