Abstract
This article presents the texts of “The Goat and her kids”, a folk tale in the Rushani and Khufi languages. The Rushani version of the story was recorded by A. K. Pisarchik in 1943; the Khufi text was recor‑ ded in 1951 by V. S. Sokolova. Both texts are transcribed on the basis of the phonological principle using international Iranian transcrip‑ tion, with Russian translation; in the Rushani version the phonetic features of speech are also noted. In the present publication these texts are provided with morpheme-by-morpheme glossing. Both texts are valuable written documents that record an unwrit‑ ten language at a relatively early point in time. Despite the significant similarity of the cultural traditions and folklore of the Western Pamir peoples, the example of this folk tale highlights discrepancies in plot, theme and cast of characters. Differing from the more common story, widespread in Central Asia, about a fight between a goat and a wolf, the Rushani and Khufi tales presented here notably replace the antagonist with a bear.
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