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This volume presents the documentation and description of an endangered variety of the Gorani language as spoken in Zarda, a village located near Sar Pol-e Zahab and Kerend in Kermanshah province, western Iran. The volume contains background information about the village and society, eight texts with English translations, an interlinear morphemic glossed text, and a grammatical description and lexicon based on the material in the texts. Audio recordings of the texts are included on a CD.