Western Yugur Texts

 

The Western Yugur texts below all derive from Malov's monography of Western Yugur texts (1967). Malov notated the Western Yugur texts using the Cyrillic alphabet, with some adaptations and additions.

Read more on Malov's Notation of Western Yugur.

Folk tales

• The Song of the Fox
• The Ogress and Tutuqash
• The Male Goat and the Ogress
• The Wolf
• The Friendship of the Wolf, the Fox, and the Raven
• The Ogre and the Five Girls
• Altamsy and Kundemsy
• Yangqysaq and Qongyrjan
• The Idler's Adventure
• The Blind Man and the Wild Animals
• The Talking Wooden Bolt
• The Magic of the Old Monk
• The Smart Boy, Who Bartered a Mouse for a Horse and a Beautiful Wife
• The Misleading Suitor
• How the Ugly Boy Pretends to be Beautiful and Marries a Beauty, or, The Pyhrqans Who Change the Appearance of People
• The Smart Woman, or, The Living Corpse
• The Seven Fools
• The Monk and the Woman
• The Numskull
• The Hunter Slaying his Father
• The Goat Tails
• The Buddhist Prayer (1)
• The Buddhist Prayer (2)
• The Soldiers From the Egg
• The Magpie

Samples of spoken Western Yugur

• Two Western Yugur Proverbs
• Western Yugur Folk Songs

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