On the Silk Road with CeLCAR is an educational podcast that features guests from across Central Asia who share insights about the people, cultures, and languages of their countries. Designed for Central Asian enthusiasts, linguaphiles, and anyone with a curiosity about other cultures, the series offers an engaging journey through this vibrant region, rich in history and ancient traditions. Follow along as CeLCAR explores the stories, languages, and heritage of the Silk Road.
Our guest today is Zia Khoshsirat. Zia is a doctoral student at UCLA, studying Linguistic Anthropology. His research interests include language ideologies, historical-sociolinguistics, and language documentation and revitalization, and his primary language of focus is Gilaki, an Iranian language originating from the Gilan province of Iran.
In this episode, we meet Professor Golshat Safiullina, an associate professor at the Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology at Kazan Federal University in Kazan which is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. Professor Safiullina tells us about Tatar, including who speaks it and where it is spoken around the world. She even tells us a little about a special connection between Tatar and Indiana University.
Podcast Episode Nineteen: Azerbaijani
In this episode, we meet Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar, a senior lecturer in IU’s Department of Central Eurasian Studies. Shahyar is a native Azerbaijani from Tehran, Iran who is the founder of teaching Azerbaijani at IU’s Summer Language Workshop, harkening back to 1985. Also an interesting tidbit about Shahyar, he is a gifted singer and the maestro of The Silk Road Ensemble, a critically acclaimed musical ensemble that specializes in playing music from Central Asia.
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