Traditional Jambi Malay

一个由Peter Cole博士、Gabriella Hermon博士和Uri Tadmor博士组成的研究小组，将在语言学研究生Yanti Jotika女士的协助下，对传统占碑马来语进行语言学实地考察。占碑马来语是印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛东南部占碑省的一种濒危马来语。马来印尼语是一种主要的世界语言，也许是世界上第四大最广泛使用的语言。然而，几乎没有对马来方言和马来-印度尼西亚方言进行彻底的科学描述。马来-印尼语的语法和大部分理论著作几乎都是建立在准人工标准语言的基础上的。大多数以马来语为母语的人生活在苏门答腊岛，比马来西亚的人多得多，然而，甚至没有一个关于苏门答腊马来语方言的彻底的语法描述。传统的Jambi马来语是一个理想的选择，因为Jambi被广泛认为是Melayu（马来-印度尼西亚语中的“马来语”）的发源地，因此是理解数百种马来方言的复杂系统的关键。语言实地工作将在两个村庄进行，Mudung Laut和Tanjung Raden，在那里，传统的占碑马来语仍然显示出许多在占碑市使用的koineized城市语言中失去的特征。该项目的成果将包括语文的一般说明、语文以与各种体裁的数字录音相联系的电脑化文本数据库的形式记录下来，以及根据这些数据进行面向理论的研究。此外，还将编制自动生成的占碑马来语-英语-印尼语词汇表，作为项目第二阶段占碑马来语词典的基础。最后，调查人员将准备两册在当地出版的书籍，一本是民间故事，另一本是自传体小品。该项目更广泛的影响首先包括对濒危语言的记录和描述（世界各地语言学的重要优先事项），以及培训该语言的使用者作为现场语言学家。该项目还将制作文化材料，供说该语言的人使用。该项目涉及美国科学家与国外科学机构之间的合作：马克斯·普朗克进化人类学研究所雅加达站主任是该项目的共同负责人。该项目还在培训美国研究生方面发挥了作用，使他们认识到濒危语言工作的重要性，并有助于保护一个边缘化社区的语言和文化遗产。同样重要的是该项目在培养国际研究生方面的作用。

A research team consisting of Dr. Peter Cole, Dr. Gabriella Hermon, and Dr. Uri Tadmor, assisted by Ms. Yanti Jotika, a graduate student in linguistics, will conduct linguistic fieldwork on Traditional Jambi Malay, an endangered Malay variety spoken in Jambi Province in southeast Sumatra, Indonesia. Malay-Indonesian is a major world language, perhaps the fourth most widely spoken language in the world. Yet there are almost no thorough scientific descriptions of vernacular Malayic languages and Malay-Indonesian dialects. Grammars of Malay-Indonesian as well as most theoretical works on the language are almost entirely based on the quasi-artificial standard language. Most native speakers of Malay live in Sumatra, many more than in Malaysia, yet there is not even one thorough grammatical description of a Sumatran Malay dialect. Traditional Jambi Malay is an ideal choice because Jambi is widely considered to be original locus of Melayu (the Malay-Indonesian term for 'Malay'), and is thus the key to understanding the complex diasystem of hundreds of Malay dialects. The linguistic field work will be carried out in two villages, Mudung Laut and Tanjung Raden, where Traditional Jambi Malay still exhibits many features lost in the koineized urban variety spoken in Jambi City. The results of the project will include a general description of the language, documentation of the language in the form of a computerized database of texts linked to digital recordings in a variety of genres, and theoretically oriented studies based on the data. An automatically generated Jambi Malay-English-Indonesian glossary will also be produced, which will serve as the basis for a Jambi Malay dictionary in the second stage of the project. Finally, the investigators will prepare two locally published volumes, one of folk stories and the other autobiographical sketches.Broader impacts of the project include first and foremost the documentation and description of an endangered language (an important priority for linguistics around the world), as well as the training of a speaker of that language as a field linguist. The project will also create cultural materials for use by the speakers of the language. The project involves cooperation between U.S. scientists and scientific institutions abroad: The director of the Jakarta Field Station of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is a co-PI on the project. The project also plays a role in the training of American graduate students with regard to the importance of work on endangered languages and contributing to the preservation of the linguistic and cultural heritage of a marginalized community. Equally important is the role of the project in training international graduate students.