李 林静

欧文抄録:P.326Hezhen is a Tungusic language spoken by the Hezhen living in Heilongjiang Province in China. The Hezhen population is currently about 4600. Less than 10 Hezhen can speak their native language. This paper presents the transcript of a conversation between two such native speakers, You Wenlan and He Shuzhen, recorded at Jiejinkou village in Heilongjiang Province in China on August 13, 2013. You Wenlan, a Kilen dialect speaker, was born in 1946 in Qindeli village; and He Shuzhen, also a Kilen dialect speaker, was born in 1937 in Fujin village.The length of their conversation was about 35 minutes, and the topics including: the weather, flood, constructions of the Jijingkou village, if vegetables are growing well or not, rumours of the villagers and the health problems concerning talkers themselves.

欧文抄録:p.293Hezhen is a Tungusic language spoken by the Hezhen living in Heilongjiang Province in China. The Hezhen population is currently about 4600. It was speculated that there would be 19 native Hezhen speakers by the end of 2000. However, according to a survey conducted by the author of this paper, as of 2012 less than 10 Hezhen can speak their native language. This paper presents the transcript of a conversation between two such native speakers, You Wenlan and He Shuzhen, recorded at Jiejinkou village in Heilongjiang Province in China on August 29, 2012. You Wenlan, a Kilen dialect speaker, was born in 1946 in Qindeli village; and He Shuzhen, also a Kilen dialect speaker, was born in 1937 in Fuiin village. The length of their conversation was about 26 minutes, and the topics ranged from the weather, their surroundings, and the interior decoration of You's house to their habit of burning paper money during the Zhongyuan festival.

This folkstory is based on an interview taken by the author on 21st August 2009 in Raohe city, Heilongjiang province, China (classification number: YGZ200908211, YGZ200908212). The interviewee's name is You Guizhen, a Kilen dialect speaker, who was born in Hayu in 1924. The story was told twice by Ms You,the first time was told by half mandarin and half Hezhen language, the second time was mainly told by Hezhen language. Each of them is going to be introduced in this text.

This folktale 'Crows' was narrated by a fmale speaker of Kilen dialect of Hezhen, Mrs. Wenlan Yu. Mrs. Yu was born in the village of Bacha in Heilongjiang Province in 1946. When Mrs. Yu was young, she learned a lot of folktales of Hezhen from her grandmother-in-low. But this folktale Crows was created by herself. This floktale has been recorder in the village of Jiejinkou in Heilongjiang Province in August, 2003. Contents of the paper are: 1 Outline of the text in Japanese, 2 Text in Hezhen with grammatical analysis and translation in Japanese