Guerrero Nahuatl Language Documentation and Lexicon Enrichment Project

格雷罗纳瓦特尔语文档和词汇丰富项目（NLDLEP）追求四个并行的目标：文档、更新、描述和教育。将通过提供音频和文本（通过电子手段解析和修饰的抄本）来完成文件编制，以便永久存档和以推荐格式在因特网上显示。将通过培训母语人士掌握语言记录技术和制作供社区学校使用的书籍和cd来推进振兴工作。随着文件编制和更新工作的进行，将通过继续编制词典和参考语法来加强描述。教育将通过制作电子和印刷材料来进行，这些材料既可以供非母语人士（学习一门新语言）使用，也可以供年轻的母语人士（学习书写他们的语言）使用。三年后，NLDLEP将制作约200小时的各种主题（故事，仪式演讲，对话，民族动物知识）的记录文本，其中约90小时将被选中转录并在当地和互联网上出版，作为纳瓦特尔学习环境百科全书的一部分。目前的项目在概念和呈现上都是跨学科的。记录的语料库将探索广泛学者感兴趣的濒临灭绝的文化知识领域：(1)语言学家将受益于巨大的纳瓦特尔语类型学独特的语料库，并仔细包括词典中的编码字段，允许对当前语言学理论感兴趣的主题进行搜索；(2)关于物质文化生产和使用的百科全书式文献，以及关于移民和流动商业的证言，将对人类学家有所帮助；(3)历史学家将欢迎新的词典编纂信息，这将有助于他们翻译殖民时期的纳瓦特尔语文献；(4)植物学家和动物学家将受益于与当地知识记录文本相联系的动植物清单和科学命名法；(5)学生将受益于在美国拉丁美洲第六章中心继续学习这门语言的基础材料；(6)母语使用者和社区将欢迎继续接触他们正在消失和受到威胁的语言和文化。此外，这个项目将开发的电子接口工具将是通用的，因此适用于其他语言的文档、更新、描述和教育项目。

The Guerrero Nahuatl Language Documentation and Lexicon Enrichment Project (NLDLEP) pursues four concurrent goals: documentation, revitalization, description, and education. Documentation will be accomplished by providing audio and text (transcriptions that have been parsed and glossed by electronic means) for permanent archiving and Internet display in recommended formats. Revitalization will be advanced by training native speakers in language documentation techniques and producing books and CDs for use in community schools. Description will be enhanced by continuing to elaborate a lexicon and reference grammar as the documentation and revitalization efforts proceed. Education will be attended to by creating electronic and printed materials that can be used by both nonspeakers (learning a new language) and young native speakers (learning to write their language). After three years, the NLDLEP will have produced approximately 200 hours of recorded texts on a variety of topics (stories, ritual speech, dialogues, ethnozoological knowledge) of which about 90 hours will be selected for transcription and publication locally and on the Internet as part of the Nahuatl Learning Environment Encyclopedia. The present project is interdisciplinary both in its conception and presentation. The documented corpus will explore endangered domains of cultural knowledge of interest to a wide range of scholars: (1) linguists will benefit from the immense corpus of material of a typologically unique Nahuatl language and the careful including of coded fields in the lexicon that permit searches on topics of interest to current linguistic theory; (2) anthropologists will find use in the encyclopedic documentation of material culture production and use as well as testimonials on migration and itinerant commerce; (3) historians will welcome the new lexicographic information that will help them translate colonial Nahuatl documents; (4) botanists and zoologists will benefit from the floristic and faunistic inventories and scientific nomenclature linked to recorded texts of local knowledge; (5) students will benefit from material that will provide a basis for continuing education in this language in Latin American Title VI centers across the United States; (6) native speakers and communities will welcome ongoing access to their disappearing and threatened language and culture. Moreover, the electronic interface tools that this project will develop will be generic and thus be applicable to documentation, revitalization, description, and educational projects in other languages.