Funerary lamentations among the Albanians of Ukraine: folklore form and current tradition

he article is devoted to the ethnographical description of present-day funerary lamentation tradition, which prevails among the Albanian population of the Budjak and Azov regions (the Ukraine). Special attention is paid to the stable themes in the context of lamentation. Besides, in the present work the author quotes and analyzes the folklore texts, noted earlier among this ethnic group.