Texts: Urum Narrative Collection

Documentation project. — University of Bielefeld, 2011. — 160 pp.The authors collected four spontaneous narratives from a sample of 16 native speakers of Urum. Each speaker produced four narratives on topics that are typical for text collections in language documentation: (a) the ancestor story, (b) a path description, (c) an account of conditions of life in the recent years, and (d) a description of a traditional activity of the people in Tsalka (namely cheese production). Furthermore, they elicited by each speaker a version of the Pear Stories, based on a six-minutes film made at the university of California in 1975 by Wallace Chafe. There is an established research tradition on narratives elicited by means of this film in several languages (see Chafe 1980, ed.), which will be a useful comparative basis for the Urum data.
The data collection, transcription, and translation has been made by Violeta Moisidi within the framework of the research project "Documentation of Urum" which is a collaborative initiative of the University of Athens, the University of Bielefeld, the University of Bremen and the University of Potsdam (funded by the Latsis foundation). The recordings took place in Tsalka and in Tbilisi, October-December 2011.Introduction.
The story of the ancestors.
Path description.
Modern life.
Traditional activity.
Pear story.