Zazaca Öğren

Bacmeister Sample Sentences

Forty-four short Kurmanji and Zaza sample sentences that Lerch produced from Bacmeister's language examples. The Zaza column preserves Lerch's historical phonetic transcription.

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Bacmeister Sample Sentences

Historical context

This section is not a narrative text, but a set of short sample sentences. Lerch explains that he first translated Bacmeister's examples into Turkish and then asked Kurdish speakers for the Kurmanji and Zaza equivalents.

Research note

The Zaza sentences are given in Lerch's historical phonetic writing, not normalized to modern Zazaki orthography. Notes mark witness differences or probable spelling/transcription errors visible in the source.

Russian original edition

Lerch, Peter Ivanovich. Izsledovaniia ob iranskikh kurdakh i ikh predkakh, severnykh khaldeiakh. Vol. 2. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856. Bacmeister sentence samples, printed pp. 41-44.

Pages: Russian Book II viewer pages 55-58; printed pp. 41-44.

Primary scan witness for the Zaza column in Lerch's historical orthography.

German edition / reprint scan

Lerch, Peter. Forschungen über die Kurden und die iranischen Nordchaldäer. Abth. 1. St. Petersburg: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1857. Bacmeister sentence samples, pp. 1-4 of the text section.

Pages: German reprint pages 45-48 in the local rendered scan set.

Used as a second scan witness and for Lerch's German glosses.