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Friends, enemies, and fools: A collection of Uyghur proverbs
by Michael Fiddler
Zhejiang Normal University
Key words: Proverb, Uyghur, folly, wisdom, friend, enemy
This article presents two groups of Uyghur proverbs on the topics of friendship and wisdom, to my knowledge only the second set of Uyghur proverbs published with English translation (after Mahmut & Smith-Finley 2016). It begins with a brief introduction of Uyghur language and culture, then a description of Uyghur proverb styles, then the two sets of proverbs, and finally a few concluding comments.
Documenting the world’s oldest proverb, now found thriving in Ethiopia and South Asia: On the trail of the “hasty bitch”
by Peter Unseth
Dallas International University
Key words: Proverb, Ethiopia, hasty bitch, Pashto
The world’s oldest recorded proverb, from around 3,800 years ago, is found on a tablet from the Assyrian empire. The proverb has been documented in later eras from the Middle East and northwest up into Europe, as far west as Britain. Evidence is given here that it is also found to the south in Ethiopia and as far east as Pakistan.
Wellerism proverbs: Mapping their distribution
by Peter Unseth
Dallas International University
Key words: proverb, wellerism, proverb distribution
Wellerism proverbs have been collected from many languages, but very little has been written on the distribution of these types of sayings geographically. This paper is a first attempt to map the broad distribution of this type of proverb and finds an absence of them in eastern Asia.