Alutiiq Living Words Project

Alutiiq Living Word 项目

• 批准号: 0652146
• 负责人: Sven Haakanson
• 金额: $ 44.59万
• 依托单位: Alutiiq Heritage Foundation
• 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: 2007-08-15 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0652146&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Alutiiq; Living; Words; Project

Alutiiq, an Eskimoan language once widely spoken in southcentral Alaska, is endangered today. Within the Alutiiq world, the Kodiak Alutiiq dialect is particularly threatened, with fewer than 35 elderly speakers scattered among isolated, rural communities in the Kodiak Archipelago. Although uniquely placed at the southern extent of the Eskimoan language family, Alutiiq is one of the least-studied Alaska Native languages. Alutiiq Living Words is a project headed by Sven D. Haakanson and April Counceller, and it is funded by the National Science Foundation. Housed at the Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository, this three-year community-based research effort will document rapidly vanishing forms of Kodiak Alutiiq oratory, linguistic knowledge, and place names. To document Alutiiq oratory, semi-fluent field researchers (primarily Alutiiq people) will work closely with Kodiak Alutiiq speakers to make digital audio and visual recordings. Efforts will focus on the eldest and most fluent speakers, many of whom are over 80 years old. The recordings will be transcribed and indexed by project staff, transferred to CD and DVD, and archived both at the Alutiiq Museum and the University of Alaska's Alaska Native Language Center (ANLC). In addition to new recordings, selected older recordings from ANLC and the Alutiiq Museum's archives will be digitized, transcribed, and translated. To document and preserve linguistic place name information, research notes taken by Dr. Jeff Leer of ANLC will be verified with modern speakers, and compiled in an interactive multimedia Kodiak Archipelago place-names map for the web site. In addition to contributing place-names data, he will act as the project's Faculty Associate, editing Alutiiq language text and guiding the interpretation of selected oratory. Another objective is to form a New Words Council (NWC) of fluent speakers and semi-fluent project staff, who will develop new words for the language. Modeled after the successful Hawaiian Lexicon Committee, this group will document aspects of Alutiiq language revitalization in practice, as the community advances towards a healthier language status. New words, recordings of these words, and documentation of the word-creation process will be included in the project's online database and disseminated in a printed new words guide.

阿鲁蒂克语是一种爱斯基摩语，曾在阿拉斯加中南部广泛使用，如今已濒临灭绝。在 Alutiiq 世界中，科迪亚克 Alutiiq 方言尤其受到威胁，只有不到 35 名老年使用者分散在科迪亚克群岛偏僻的农村社区。尽管阿鲁蒂克语位于爱斯基摩语系南部，但它是研究最少的阿拉斯加原住民语言之一。 Alutiiq Living Words 是一个由 Sven D. Haakanson 和 April Counceller 领导的项目，由美国国家科学基金会资助。 这项为期三年的社区研究工作位于阿鲁蒂克博物馆和考古资料库，将记录科迪亚克阿鲁蒂克演讲、语言知识和地名迅速消失的形式。 为了记录 Alutiiq 演讲，半流利的现场研究人员（主要是 Alutiiq 人）将与 Kodiak Alutiiq 扬声器密切合作，制作数字音频和视频记录。我们将重点关注年龄最大、语言最流利的人，其中许多人已经超过 80 岁。这些录音将由项目工作人员转录和索引，转制成 CD 和 DVD，并在 Alutiiq 博物馆和阿拉斯加大学阿拉斯加母语中心 (ANLC) 存档。除了新录音之外，ANLC 和 Alutiiq 博物馆档案中选定的旧录音也将被数字化、转录和翻译。为了记录和保存语言地名信息，ANLC 的 Jeff Leer 博士所做的研究笔记将由现代演讲者进行验证，并汇编成网站的交互式多媒体科迪亚克群岛地名地图。除了提供地名数据外，他还将担任该项目的教员助理，编辑 Alutiiq 语言文本并指导所选演讲的解释。另一个目标是成立一个由流利的使用者和半流利的项目人员组成的新词委员会（NWC），他们将为该语言开发新词。以成功的夏威夷词典委员会为蓝本，随着社区朝着更健康的语言状态迈进，该小组将在实践中记录 Alutiiq 语言复兴的各个方面。新单词、这些单词的录音以及单词创建过程的文档将包含在该项目的在线数据库中，并以印刷版新单词指南形式传播。