Ebook: On some proverbs of the Western and Eastern Yugur languages

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. In Turkic Languages 3 (2), 1999, 189 - 214 p.The collection of Western Yugur proverbs presented below consists of 32 items which were recorded in August 1994 and August 1995 with Zhong Jinwen and in September 1995 with Xuelian, and of the materials occurring in Malov (1967) and Lei (1992). It appears that the collection of proverbs excerpted from the dictionary by Lei is largely convergent with the one in Malov. The Eastern Yugur proverbs presented here all derive from Bolčuluu and Jalsan (1988). Beside the proverbs, eight proverbial expressions dealing with folk wisdom, which were recorded by Zhong Jinwen in 1992 in the Yugur area, are included.