Narratives & Conversations in Tlingit (TLI) Northern Haida (HDN) & Tsimshian (TSI)

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• 批准号: 0554163
• 负责人: Rosita Worl
• 金额: $ 26.31万
• 依托单位: Sealaska Heritage Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-03-01 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0554163&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Narratives; & Conversations; Tlingit; TLI

There are three languages which are indigenous to the region of southeast Alaska: Tlingit (TLI), Northern Haida (HDN) and Tsimshian (TSI). All three are seriously endangered. Research shows that Tlingit is spoken by approximately 200 of the roughly 10,000 Tlingit people in Alaska. Northern Haida has four fluent speakers in Alaska, with perhaps another 10 in Canada. Tsimshian has an estimated 15 fluent speakers in Alaska, with perhaps 500 more in Canada. While the three groups share many cultural traits, the three languages are unrelated to one another and are quite distinct, especially in the areas of morphology and syntax.This project, by the Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI), is a collaboration between researchersand indigenous scholars in Alaska and Canada to examine a 30 hours of narratives and conversations among fluent speakers in each of the three languages. These will be transcribed and translated, and the results will be made available to researchers and community members in various electronic formats. Much of the data for this project comes from recordings made 30 or more years ago with the last generation of speakers who were more dominant in their Native language than in English. The result of this project will be a vast increase the quantity and quality of documentation available for these three endangered languages. The data that are gathered will be immediately useful in SHI's on-going dictionary and curriculum development projects for all three languages.As part of the International Polar Year, NSF has made documentation of endangered languages one of its priorities. These three languages, although spoke by sub-Arctic peoples, can provide important insights for understanding many of the indigenous languages of the Arctic and SubArctic regions and therefore this project is an important part of the research on endangered langauges that will be performed during the IPY.

阿拉斯加东南部有三种语言：特林吉特语（TLI）、北方海达语（HDN）和钦仙语（TSI）。这三种都是严重濒危的。研究表明，在阿拉斯加大约10，000名特林吉特人中，大约有200人使用特林吉特语。北方海达语在阿拉斯加有四个流利的使用者，在加拿大可能还有10个。据估计，Tsimshian在阿拉斯加有15个流利的讲者，在加拿大可能有500多个。虽然这三个群体有许多共同的文化特征，但这三种语言彼此无关，而且非常不同，特别是在词法和句法方面。这个项目由阿拉斯加遗产研究所（SHI）发起，是阿拉斯加和加拿大的研究人员和土著学者之间的合作，旨在研究三种语言中每种语言流利者之间30小时的叙述和对话。 这些将被转录和翻译，结果将以各种电子格式提供给研究人员和社区成员。这个项目的大部分数据来自30年前或更久以前的录音，这些录音是由上一代母语比英语更占主导地位的人录制的。这一项目的结果将大大提高这三种濒危语言的文献数量和质量。收集到的数据将立即用于SHI正在进行的所有三种语言的词典和课程开发项目。作为国际极地年的一部分，NSF已将濒危语言的记录作为其优先事项之一。 这三种语言虽然是亚北极人民使用的语言，但可以为了解北极和亚北极地区的许多土著语言提供重要的见解，因此该项目是国际和平年期间将进行的濒危语言研究的重要组成部分。