A corpus of Hewramî recordings, time-aligned with transcription and translation

This archive contains audio recordings for the text corpus in Echoes of the past: Hewramî narratives (Mohammadirad forthcoming, see https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/531). It also includes PDF files containing time-aligned transcription and translation for each recording, as well as annotated ELAN files. Consult the book for the most updated transcription and translation of the narratives. The texts in this corpus have been fully glossed in book.The recordings are available as WAV files.
Hewramî is an Iranian language spoken in the remote mountainous region at the heart of the Kurdish-speaking region along the western border of Iran and neighbouring areas in Iraqi Kurdistan. Hewramî (ISO 639-3 hac) belongs to the Gorani language cluster of the Iranian languages (Indo-European: Iranian: Central Iranian: Northwestern Iranian: (Adharic:) Gorani: Hewramî).
The texts in this corpus are local anecdotes, folktales, biographies, process narratives, and oral accounts of the history of the region. The recordings were made by Masoud Mohammadirad in Hewraman in 2022. Overall, there are five speakers in this corpus, four of whom are male and one female. The speakers were all above 60 at the time of recording.
Each text is divided into numbered annotation units, usually corresponding to an intonation unit. To the left of each annotation unit, there is a code representing the initials of the text title, followed by a number, indicating the sentence/ clause number within the tale. For instance, ZB.20 corresponds to sentence number 20 in the ZB text. To the right of each annotation unit, the starting point of each annotation unit in the audio file is indicated in minutes: seconds.