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The Oldest Known Texts in New Tabari: The Collection of Aleksander Chodzko

This article identifies, transcribes, translates, glosses, and provides a grammar for a set of seventeen poems and songs collected in the 1830s by the pioneering Polish Orientalist and folklorist Aleksander Borejko Chodzko, who published the songs using Perso-Arabic characters. The verses are the oldest known documents in the Mazandarani language, also known as New or Modern Tabari. The texts were collected from various locations in Mazandaran and hence represent more than one dialect of New Tabari. The linguistic analysis shows that Tabari has undergone no fundamental change in the last two centuries, though certain words and grammatical traits have already ceased to be used in the language. While comparing the texts with other surviving Tabari documents from the nineteenth century does yield some answers, a number of questions remain for future studies.