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The Language of the People of Bashiqa: A Vehicle of their Intangible Cultural Heritage

Category: Working Paper By: Saeed Adriss Saeed & Wafaa Sabah Khuder

The Working Paper by Dr Saeed Adris Saeed and Wafaa Sabah Khuder provides a linguistic, a historical, as well as a socio-cultural record of the language variety spoken in Bashiqa (Northern Iraq) by one of the communities which represents a religious minority in Iraq known as Yazidis.

This language is an example of an under-researched language diversity. This research draws on a sample of eleven in-depth semi-structured interviews with Yazidi men and women from Bashiqa, Iraq. The analysis of these interviews has yielded a number of points which help in documenting and preserving this language variety. The study concludes that the language used in Bashiqa is an ancient hybrid regional dialect in which many values and meanings are embedded. In short, the Yazidis understand their language as a vehicle of their intangible cultural heritage.

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Saaed, S.A. and Khuder, W.S. (2022) The Language of the People of Bashiqa: A Vehicle of their Intangible Cultural Heritage, CREID Working Paper 14, Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/CREID.2022.003

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