Georgi Kapchits

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     Nin maqan tebiddii waa nin jooga ceebtii!

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SOOMAALI BEEN MA MAAHMAAHDO ‘Somalis do not lie in proverbs’ is a bilingual (Somali-English) book aimed at Somali and non-Somali readers. In the Introduction G. Kapchits has answered several important questions: What is the nature of proverbs? How should be understood the truth of a proverb? What makes the proverbial stocks of all nations alike and what is the difference between them? Into how many types can Somali proverbs be divided and what are their distinctive features? The first section of the book contains 249 the most popular Somali proverbs and sayings received by a special experiment. The second part offers four thousand proverbs of different types. Read more…

Somali proverbs and sayings in Somali and Russian
     with Russian equivalents. Compilation, translation,
     introduction and commentary by G.L.Kapchits
     Published by "URSS", Moscow, 2009.
     Paperback, 280 pp.

Sentence particles in the Somali language and their usage in proverbs
      (Semitica et Semitohamitica Berolinensia 4)
by G.L.Kapchits
      Shaker Verlag
      Aachen, 2005, ISBN 3-8322-4737-8
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Faaliyihii la bilkeyday: Sheekaxariirooyin Soomaaliyeed
Waxaa habeeyey Georgi Kapchits
A Soothsayer Tested: Somali Folktales
   Compiled and translated by G.L.Kapchits
   Published by "The Way"
   Moscow, 2006, 230 pages, ISBN 5-86748-051-8  Summary Full text
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Somali proverbs and sayings
 in Somali and Russian with Russian equivalents.
 Compilation, translation, introduction and commentary by G.L.Kapchits
 Published by "Vostochnaya Literatura", Moscow, 1983.
 Paperback, 284 pp. Out of print

Waxaa la yidhi – sheekooyin hidde ah
 (Somali folktales in the Somali language)
 Compilation, introduction and commentary by G.L.Kapchits
 OMIMEE Intercultural Publishers, Cologne, 1996.
 Paperback, 304 pp.
 Illustrations by Abdirashid Mohamed Jibril
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Folktales of the Somali people (in Russian)
Compilation, translation from Somali, introduction, glossary, commentary and appendices by G.L.Kapchits.
Published by"Vostochnaya Literatura", Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 1997
Paperback, 159 pp. Summary >
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Qaamuuska maamaahyada soomaaliyeed
                                – The Dictionary of Somali Proverbs
(in Somali with introductions in Somali and English)
Collected and arranged by G.L.Kapchits
Published by "Vostochnaya Literatura", Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 1998, Paperback, 204 pp. Summary >
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G.L.Kapchits
 To know something for sure,
 one would even part with a she-camel.
 Somali Proverbs: A study in popularity
 (in English and Somali).
 Published by The Way. Moscow, 2002. 216 pp.
 Paperback. – ISBN 5-86748-072-0. Summary Full text

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REPORTS ON SOMALIA

The Country of Poets and Pirates
Mogadishu: Twenty years later
Pirates of the 21st century
Meetings

Andrzejewski’s Review of Somali proverbs and sayings in Somali and Russian with Russian equivalents

Drought in Somali Folklore

Somaliland's Hargeisa book festival celebrates fifth year

Somaliland: Somalis do not use Proverbs to Lie (HORN Newspaper)

Lamberti’s maps of Somali dialects and the current socio-linguistic situation in South Somalia

(With V.Porkhomovsky) Kinship terms in Somali and Oromo

The Country of Poets and Pirates

Alexander ZHOLKOVSKY, THE SOMALI TALE "A SOOTHSAYER TESTED"

The Traveler to Legendary Lands (Interview with Sheila Andrzejewski)

Suzanne Lilius. New collection of Somali Folktales. Bildhan Vol.6, 2006.

On some peculiarities of the Somal language, proverbs and folktales
The paper for the Buranbur conference in San Diego (3.03.2007)
(Microsoft Word Document)

Men and women in the Somali narrative folklore
The paper for the Buranbur conference in San Diego (3.03.2007)
(Microsoft Word Document)

Out of The Mouth of Babes and Sucklings

Scholars in The Country of Poets
Notes on the 8th International Congress of Somali Studies
(Hargeisa. July 3-13, 2001)

Some results of the Somali paremiological experiment in Berlin and Arhus
(Microsoft Word Document)
THE 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CUSHITIC AND OMOTIC LANGUAGES
(Leiden 10-12 April 2003)

Variants and Variations of Somali Proverbs
(Microsoft Word Document)
Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the Somali Studies International Association (Aalborg, 2004)

Paremias without sentence particles
(Microsoft Word Document)
Proceedings of the 7th International Semitohamitic Congress (Berlin, 2004)

Introduction - in: Caliqeyr Muxumed Nuur "Dhibkii Dheef Baa Ka Dambeysay". Stockholm. 2007