Comparative analysis of Crimean Karaim folk songs
Dorota Smętek
dsmetek@amu.edu.plUniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Neofilologii, Zakład Turkologii, Mongolistyki i Koreanistyki (Poland)
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present and analyze the content of two folk songs called Türkü, which were copied into handwritten books by Karaims living in the Crimea in the 19th century. For the purpose of this paper I have chosen songs which appear in more than one manuscript in order to make a comparatison of the literary content and linguistic properties of the works in question. Karaim manuscripts were copied in different locations throughout the Peninsula, which affected the vernacular used by the copyists. Moreover, no standard literary language was used by all Karaim communities. It is due to these reasons, among others, that the aforementioned songs were bound to differ from one another.
Keywords:
Karaim manuscripts, Crimean Karaim, Crimean Turkish, Turkic folk literature, Samuel Kohen’s mejumaReferences
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Authors
Dorota Smętekdsmetek@amu.edu.pl
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Neofilologii, Zakład Turkologii, Mongolistyki i Koreanistyki Poland
Dorota Smętek pracuje na stanowisku adiunkta w Zakładzie Turkologii, Mongolistyki i Koreanistyki UAM, wykłada literaturę i gramatykę turecką. Prowadzi także zajęcia z praktycznej znajomości języka tureckiego. Jej zainteresowania naukowe obejmują karaimoznawstwo oraz współczesną literaturę turecką. W 2012 obroniła rozprawę doktorską w dziedzinie językoznawstwa tureckiego. Adres do korespondencji: dsmetek@amu.edu.pl.
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