This archive contains audio recordings for the Multi-CAST Sanzhi Dargwa corpus (Forker & Schiborr 2019), originally published in May 2019 with version 1905 of the Multi-CAST collection (Haig & Schnell 2015). The annotation and documentation files accompanying these files have been archived separately. The recordings are available as WAV and MP3 files.

Sanzhi Dargwa [sanz1248] is a Nakh-Daghestanian (Caucasian) language from the Dargwa subbranch. From 1968 onwards, over a relatively short time span, all Sanzhi speakers left their village of Sanzhi in the mountains of central Daghestan, Russia, to move to linguistically and ethnically heterogeneous settlements in the lowlands. Today Sanzhi is spoken by approximately 250 speakers and heavily endangered.

The eight texts in this corpus represent a small subset of the material that was recorded, transcribed, translated, and glossed by Diana Forker with the assistance of Gadzhimurad Gadzhimuradov, a native speaker, as part of a DOBES language documentation project (2012–2019), which has culminated in a grammar of Sanzhi Dargwa (Forker 2020).

The texts presented here are a mixture of autobiographical and traditional narratives. They were annotated for Multi-CAST by Nils Schiborr.

Citation
Forker, Diana & Schiborr, Nils N. 2019. Multi-CAST Vera'a. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version of the annotations used]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.

References
Forker, Diana. 2020. A grammar of Sanzhi Dargwa. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.). 2015. Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. [version]. Bamberg: University of Bamberg.