Хабиб Борджян — лингвист, специализирующийся на исторической лингвистике, языковой документации, филологии, диалектологии, а также на иранских языках и литературе.

Деятельность

Хабиб Борджян входил в состав совета редакторов Encyclopaedia Iranica , академического справочника, посвященного изучению иранской цивилизации на Ближнем Востоке, Кавказе, в Центральной и Южной Азии, и охватывает все аспекты ее истории и культуры, а также языков и литературы, включая иранскую, семитскую, тюркскую и индийскую. Он работал в редакционной коллегии нескольких академических журналов и работал заместителем редактора журнала персидских исследований. Научная деятельность доктора Борджяна насчитывает множество статей в рецензируемых журналах и отредактированных томах. В настоящее время он занимается филологией и этнолингвистической документацией.

Его академическая подготовка охватывает Колумбийский университет, Тегеранский университет и Ереванский государственный университет. Д-р Борджян работал научным сотрудником в Центре иранских исследований Колумбийского университета (2010-19 гг.). Последние девять лет он входил в совет директоров Endangered Language Alliance, целью которого было документирование редких языков, на которых говорят иммигрантские общины в Большом Нью-Йорке.

С 2012 года он также занимал должность содиректора Ближневосточного региона в проекте «Исчезающие языки», совместном проекте Google и Univ. Гавайев, в которой его работа связана с определением и классификацией языков, на которых говорят в Афганистане, Пакистане, Центральной Азии, на Кавказе, в Турции и Иране. Во время своего пребывания в Ассоциации по изучению персидских обществ (2006-2012) Борджян организовывал и председательствовал на двухгодичных конференциях в Тбилиси, Лахоре и Хайдарабаде. В 2017–2019 учебных годах он входил в состав комитета Сената по библиотекам Колумбийского университета.

Избранные публикации

Книги

• Three Essays on Three Iranic Language Groups: Taleqani, Biabanaki, Komisenian , American Oriental Society, 2021 forthcoming.
• Ganjina-ye guyešhâ-ye Irâni: Ostân-e Esfahân II (Central Plateau languages of Isfahan area), Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature, 2015.
• Is there Continuity between Persian and Caspian? Linguistic Relationships in South-Central Alborz , New Haven: American Oriental Society, 2013
• The Raji Dialect of Jowshaqan , Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2013.
• Meyma’i. A Central Iranian Plateau Dialect , Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2012.
• Motun-e Tabari / Tabari Texts, Tehran: Written Heritage Publishers, 2009.

Статьи и главы книг

• “The Perside Language of Shiraz Jewry: A Historical-Comparative Phonology,” Iranian Studies 53/3-4, 2020, pp. 403-415.
• “Contribution to the Toponomastics of the Central Alborz” (in Persian), Literary and Linguistic Studies of the Caucasus and Caspian 1/3, 2020, pp. 19-31.
• “Traces of pharyngeal consonants in Isfahani Persian,” Iranian Studies , 2019, pp. 1-15.
• “The Language of the Kharg Island,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Series 3, 29.4 (2019), pp. 659-682
• “Mazandarani: A typological Survey,” in Typology of Iranian Languages , ed. A. Korangy and B. Mahmoudi-Bakhtiari, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019, pp. 79-101.
• “Judeo-Isfahani: The Iranian Language of the Jews of Isfahan,” Journal of Jewish Languages 7, 2019, pp. 121-189.
• “The Mazandarani Dialect of Kalijān Rostāq,” Iranian Studies 52/3-4, 2019, pp. 551-573.
• “The Caspian Language of Šahmirzād,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 139/2, 2019, pp. 361-379.
• “North Iranic Peoples in the Encyclopaedia Iranica,” Nartamongæ. The Journal of Alano-Ossetic Studies 14, 2019, pp. 413-423.
• “The Dialect of Khur,” in Matteo De Chiara, Adriano V. Rossi, and Daniel Septfonds , eds., Mélanges d’ethnographie et de dialectologie irano-aryennes à la mémoire de Charles-Martin Kieffer (Studia Iranica. Cahier 61), Paris: Association pour l'avancement des études iraniennes, 2018, pp. 77-98.
• “The Caspian Dialect of Māhā,” Studia Iranica 47/2, 2018, pp. 7-26.
• “Kerman xvi. Languages,” Encyclopaedia Iranica , Vol. XVI, fasc. 3, 2017 pp. 301-315.
• “Kermanshah vii. Languages and Dialects,” Encyclopaedia Iranica , vol. XVI, fasc. 3, 2017, pp. 324-329.
• (with Daniel Kaufman) “Juhuri: from the Caucasus to New York City,” in Maryam Borjian and Charles Häberl, eds., Special Issue: Middle Eastern Languages in Diasporic USA communities, in International Journal of Sociology of Language , issue 237, Jan. 2016, pp. 51-74.
• “Judeo-Iranian Languages,” in Lily Kahn and Aaron D. Rubin, eds ., A Handbook of Jewish Languages , Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015, pp. 234-295.
• (with Ross Perlin) “Bukhori in New York,” in Matteo De Chiara and Evelin Grassi, eds., Iranian Languages and Literatures of Central Asia: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Studia Iranica. Cahier 57), Paris: Association pour l'avancement des études iraniennes, 2015, pp. 15-27.
• “A Persian View of the Steppe Iranians,” Anabasis 5, 2014, pp. 155-173.
• “The Balochi Dialect of the Korosh,” Acta Orientalia 67/4, 2014, pp. 453-465.
• “What is Judeo-Median—and How Does it Differ from Judeo-Persian?“ Journal of Jewish Languages 2/2, 2014, pp. 117-142.
• “The Caspian Dialect of Kujūr in The Central Alborz,” Iran. Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 51, 2013, pp. 237-248.
• “Perso-Tabaric Dialects in the Language Transition Zone Bordering Mazandaran,” Studia Iranica 42/2, 2013, pp. 195-225.
• “Yushij: A Dialect of Central Alborz,” Persica 24, 2013, pp. 127-153.
• “The Tabaroid Dialects of South-Central Alborz,” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungarica 66/4, 2013, pp. 427-441.
• “Judeo-Kashani: A Central Iranian Plateau Dialect,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 132/1, 2012, pp. 1-22.
• “The Dialects of Velātru and Gachsar: The Upper Karaj Valley in the Caspian-Persian Transition Zone,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 22/2, 2012, pp. 227-263.
• “Shemiran Dialect Group,” Enat'mec'nierebis sakit'xebi/Issues of Linguistics 2011 (Jemshid Giunashvili Festschrift), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University, 2012, pp. 79-90.
• “The Median dialects of Kashan,” Encyclopaedia Iranica , vol. XVI, fasc. 1, 2012, pp. 38-48.
• (with Maryam Borjian) “Plights of Persian in the Modernization Era,” in Joshua A. Fishman and Ofelia García, eds., Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity II. Success and Failure Continuum , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, pp. 254-267.
• “The extinct dialect of Tajrish: Caspian or Persian?” Journal of Persianate Studies 4/2, 2011, pp. 246-271.
• “The Dialect of Kuhpâya,” Studia Iranica 40/1, 2011, pp. 7-68.
• “When and how did the vernacular of Isfahan shift from Median to Persian?” (in Persian), Irânšenâsi 22/4, 2011, pp. 639-654.
• “Şeyh Lutfullah Camii“ (İsfahan’da XVII. yüzyılda inşa edilen cami; Safavid mosque in Isfahan),” in Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslam Ansiklopedisi , vol. 39, 2010, pp. 57-58.
• “Nesâb-e Tabari Revisited: A Mazandarani Glossary from the Nineteenth Century,” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungarica 63/1, 2010, pp. 39-62.
• “Median Succumbs to Persian after Three Millennia of Coexistence: Language Shift in the Central Iranian Plateau,” Journal of Persianate Societies 2/1, 2009, pp. 62-87.
• “The Extinct Language of Gurgan: Its Sources and Origins,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 128/4, 2008, pp. 681-707.
• “The Komisenian Dialect of Aftar,” Archiv Orientální 76/3, 2008, pp. 379-416.
• (with Maryam Borjian) “The Last Galesh Herdsman: Ethno-Linguistic Materials from South Caspian Rainforests,” Iranian Studies 41/3, 2008, pp. 365-402.
• “Tabarica II: Some Mazandarani Verbs,” Iran and the Caucasus 12/1, 2008, pp. 73-82.
• “Two Mazandarani Texts from the Nineteenth Century,” Studia Iranica 37/1, 2008, pp. 7-50.
• (with Maryam Borjian) “Twenty-five Mazandarani quatrains,” Nawabi Memorial Volume , ed. M. Jaafari-Dehaghi, Tehran: Encyclopedia Islamica, 2008, pp. 9-37.
• (with Maryam Borjian) “Marriage Rites in South Caspian Villages: Ethnographic and Linguistic Materials from Mazandaran,” Archiv Orientální 75/2, 2007, pp. 191-214.
• “Tajikistan,” Dâʾerat-al-maʿâref-e Bozorg-e Eslâmi (Great Islamic Encyclopedia), vol. XIV, Tehran, 2007, pp. 247-260.
• (with Maryam Borjian) “Ethno-Linguistic Materials from Rural Mazandaran,” Iran and the Caucasus 11/2, 2007, pp. 226-254.
• “Esfahan,” in Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia , Michael R. T. Dumper and Bruce E. Stanley (eds.), Santa Barbara, Cal., 2007, pp. 147-149.
• “Earthquake in Persian Beliefs and Legends” (in Persian), Nâma-ye Farhangestân 8/4, 2007, pp. 6-25.
• “A Mazandarani account of the Babi Incident at Shaikh Tabarsi,” Iranian Studies 39/3, 2006, pp. 381-400.
• “Tabari language materials from Il’ya Berezin’s Recherches sur les dialectes persans ,” Iran and the Caucasus 10/2, 2006, pp. 243-258.
• “The Oldest Known Texts in New Tabari: The Collection of Aleksander Chodźko,” Archiv Orientální 74/2, 2006, pp. 153-171.
• (with Maryam Borjian) “The Story of Rostam and the White Demon in Mazandarani,” Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān 5/1-2, 2006, pp. 107-116.
• “The oldest known prose text in Modern Tabari: a translation from Tufân al-Bokâ ,” Studies on Persianate Societies 3, 2005, pp. 172-189.
• (with Garnik Asatrian) “Talish: people and language: The state of research,” Iran and the Caucasus 9/1, 2005, pp. 43-72.
• “Mazandaran: Language and People: The State of Research,” Iran and the Caucasus 8/2, 2004, pp. 289-328.
• “Iryston: the Iranian-speaking republic in North Caucasus,” Amu Darya 6, 2002, ser. no. 12, pp. 222-245, Russian translation “Osetija: Iranojazychnaja respublika na severe Kavkaza,” in Аму дарья 6, 2002, ser. no. 12.

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