yatga

English

A Mongolian yatga

Etymology

From Mongolian ятга (jatga) / ᠶᠠᠲᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (yatug-a).

Noun

yatga (plural yatgas)

1. A traditional plucked bridge zither played in Mongolia.
   • 2001, Carole Pegg, Mongolian Music, Dance, & Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities, →ISBN:

     In Old Mongolia, the yatga was used in courts to entertain the aristocracy and was also played by the aristocracy.

   • 2009, Timothy Michael May, Culture and Customs of Mongolia, →ISBN, page 89:

     Traditionally yatga performances were reserved only for monasteries and the court, and playing the instrument was considered a sacrosanct rite. This taboo changed over time as new forms of the yatga appeared, ranging from a ten-stringed yatga that anyone could play to a yatga with twenty-one strings.

   • 2017, Robert C. Provine, Yosihiko Tokumaru, J. Lawrence Witzleben, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: East Asia, →ISBN:

     The second and fourth manuscripts have musical notation for the ten-stringed yatga (Erdenechimeg and Shagdarsüren 1995).

Translations

zither

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雅托葛 (yǎtuōgé), 雅托嘎 (yǎtuōgā), 雅托噶 (yǎtuōgá), 雅托克 (yǎtuōkè), 蒙古箏 / 蒙古筝 (Měnggǔzhēng)

• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Tayag, agaty