Tsafiki Documentation Project: Descriptive Grammar and Electronic Database

Tsafiki文献项目将为厄瓜多尔西部低地的Tsachila人所说的Barbacoan语言Tsafiki制作一个全面的语法和电子词汇数据库。这个项目是记录南美洲西部低地文化的重要一步，这些文化通常记录得很少。电子词汇数据库收录了各种学者感兴趣的语言和濒危文化知识领域的信息--语言学家，特别是那些对比较研究感兴趣的学者；人类学家，他们不仅对物质文化文献感兴趣，而且对宇宙学和哲学的广泛词汇感兴趣；历史学家；植物学家和动物学家；厄瓜多尔公众和察奇拉人本身。由于词汇数据库和语法将基于已经收集的大量语料库，这两部作品都将是相当全面的。最后，该项目具有高度的协作性。来自Tsachila组织PIKITSA的训练有素的成员小组将自己完成大部分工作，所有材料将在社区存档，并向世界各地的研究界提供。

The Tsafiki Documentation Project will produce a comprehensive grammar and electronic lexical database of the Barbacoan language Tsafiki, spoken by the Tsachila people in the western lowlands of Ecuador. This project is a major step in the documentation of the western lowland cultures of South America, which are in general poorly documented. The electronic lexical database contains information on the language and endangered domains of cultural knowledge of interest to a wide range of scholars --linguists, particularly those interested in comparative studies; anthropologists, who will not only be interested in the documentation of the material culture but also on the extensive vocabulary concerning cosmology and philosophy; historians; botanists and zoologists; the Ecuadorian public in general and the Tsachila themselves. Because the lexical database and grammar will be based on a large corpus of already collected material, both works will be quite comprehensive. Finally, the project is highly collaborative. A trained team of members from the Tsachila organization PIKITSA will do much of the work themselves and all materials will be archived in the community as well as made available to the research community worldwide.