Balkan Parallels in the Vocabulary of Traditional Culture of Gorani People in North Macedonia
Balkan Parallels in the Vocabulary of Traditional Culture of Gorani People in North Macedonia

Author(s): Elena Uzeneva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Факултет по славянски филологии, Софийски университет »Св. Кл. Охридски«
Summary/Abstract: The article presents in detail individual fragments of the vocabulary of traditional culture. The investigation is based on the materials collected by the author during the Russian-German scientific ethnolinguistic expedition in 2023, carried out in Gorani villages Elovjane and Urvich of Tetovo region – the center of the Albanian minority in North Macedonia. The analysis of the terminology and semantics of lexical-semantic groups (terminology of kinship, wedding and funeral rituals) in the ethnolinguistic aspect has been carried out. In the vocabulary of the traditional culture of the Gorani of Tetovo, many parallels have been identified with the traditions of the Gorani of Albania, the Muslim Bulgarians of Bulgaria and Northern Greece, and the Torbeshi of North Macedonia.

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