Documenting the =Khomani Language: Field Research and Digital Technology for Audio, Video, and Text Archives

记录 =Khomani 语言：音频、视频和文本档案的实地研究和数字技术

• 批准号: 0504187
• 负责人: Marguerite Biesele
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: Biesele, Marguerite A.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0504187&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Documenting; =Khomani; Language; Field; Research

Each human language encodes particular understandings of the world that are not shared exactly with any other language. These understandings are part of the joint heritage we share as world citizens. It is imperative that as many as possible of the world's endangered languages be professionally documented before they disappear. Of the remaining Khoisan, or "click" languages of southern Africa, =Khomani (N/u), with only ten speakers, is high on the critical list. Recent technological advances and rising standards for "best practice" now make it possible to help =Khomani speakers preserve the words, idioms, and verbal art of their past. This collaborative approach combines anthropological and linguistic expertise with native speaker expertise for both scholarly and local community purposes. With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Marguerite Biesele will undertake the textual, audio, and video documentation of the =Khomani language in and near Upington, South Africa. Drawing on her many years of experience with the Ju/'hoan San click-speakers of Namibia, Dr. Biesele will direct the work of two linguistic consultants, Gueldemann and Namaseb, who are already familiar with the =Khomani language. The materials collected through digital field documentation will be prepared for archiving by transcribing, annotating, translating, and analyzing the language data. This project will add substantially to the scholarly materials available for linguistic research on Khoisan. These materials will be made available electronically to researchers around the world, and will also be disseminated to the community of origin. The project will contribute to the training of the two young =Khomani speakers in the production of socially meaningful texts of traditional and contemporary lore and language.

每种人类语言都编码了对世界的特定理解，而这些理解并不与任何其他语言完全共享。这些理解是我们作为世界公民共同遗产的一部分。当务之急是在世界上尽可能多的濒危语言消失之前对其进行专业记录。 在剩下的科伊桑语（即南部非洲的“点击”语言）中，=科马尼语 (N/u) 仅有 10 名使用者，位居重要名单之首。最近的技术进步和不断提高的“最佳实践”标准现在可以帮助讲科马尼语的人保留他们过去的单词、习语和口头艺术。这种协作方法将人类学和语言学专业知识与母语人士的专业知识相结合，以达到学术和当地社区的目的。 在国家科学基金会的支持下，Marguerite Biesele 博士将负责南非乌平顿及其附近地区 =Khomani 语言的文本、音频和视频记录工作。 Biesele 博士凭借多年与纳米比亚 Ju/'hoan San click-speakers 打交道的经验，将指导两位语言顾问 Gueldemann 和 Namaseb 的工作，他们已经熟悉 =Khomani 语言。通过数字现场记录收集的材料将通过转录、注释、翻译和分析语言数据来准备存档。该项目将大大增加可用于科伊桑语言研究的学术材料。这些材料将以电子方式提供给世界各地的研究人员，并将分发给原产地社区。该项目将有助于培训两位年轻的霍马尼语使用者，制作具有社会意义的传统和当代传说和语言文本。