Yuma Language Documentation

在国家科学基金会的支持下，艾米米勒博士将继续1998年开始的对尤马（也称为奎昌）的研究。尤马语（英语：Yuma）是一种濒临灭绝的美洲原住民语言，分布在加州州温特黑文的尤马堡印第安人保留区。这一项目将产生三种语言文件：一本包括大约12 000个条目的详细词典;一套以原文出版的关于尤马传统文化的文本，附有英文翻译和语言分析;以及一套适用于在保留地学校和成人夜校教授尤马语的教学语法。和教学语法将作为学术界和尤马人民的永久资源。对于语言学家和人类学家来说，这些材料将为一种正在迅速消失的语言和文化提供数据。对尤马人来说，这些材料将用于语言振兴工作：语法将为初级和中级使用者服务;文本集将加强那些已经流利的人的语言技能和文化知识;字典将在所有各级都有用。这些文件将成为尤马语言和文化遗产的记录，供后代使用。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Amy Miller will continue research begun in 1998 on Yuma (also known as Quechan). Yuma is an endangered Native American language spoken on Fort Yuma Indian Reservation in Winterhaven, California. This project will result in language documentation of three types: a detailed dictionary comprising approximately 12,000 items; a body of texts on Yuma traditional culture published in the original language with English translation and linguistic analysis; and a pedagogical grammar suitable for teaching the Yuma language in reservation schools and in evening adult classes.The dictionary, texts, and pedagogical grammar will serve as permanent resources for both the academic community and the Yuma people. For linguists and anthropologists, these materials will provide data on a rapidly disappearing language and culture. For Yuma people, the materials will be used in language revitalization efforts: The grammar will serve beginning and intermediate speakers; the text collection will strengthen the linguistic skills and cultural knowledge of those already fluent; and the dictionary will be useful at all levels. For future generations, these documents will serve as records of Yuma linguistic and cultural heritage.