Alutiiq Living Words Project

Alutiiq是一种曾在阿拉斯加中南部广泛使用的爱斯基摩语，如今已濒临灭绝。在阿鲁蒂克语的世界里，科迪亚克阿鲁蒂克方言受到的威胁尤其严重，只有不到35位老年人分散在科迪亚克群岛偏远的农村社区。alutiq语虽然独特地位于爱斯基摩语族的南部，但却是被研究最少的阿拉斯加土著语言之一。alutiq Living Words是一个由Sven D. Haakanson和April counselor领导的项目，由美国国家科学基金会资助。这个为期三年的以社区为基础的研究项目位于Alutiiq博物馆和考古储存库内，将记录Kodiak Alutiiq迅速消失的演讲形式、语言知识和地名。为了记录Alutiiq的演讲，半流利的现场研究人员（主要是Alutiiq人员）将与Kodiak Alutiiq扬声器密切合作，制作数字音频和视频记录。努力将集中在年龄最大、说得最流利的人身上，他们中的许多人已经超过80岁。录音将由项目人员转录和索引，转换成CD和DVD，并在alutiq博物馆和阿拉斯加大学的阿拉斯加本土语言中心（ANLC）存档。除了新的录音，从ANLC和Alutiiq博物馆的档案中选择的旧录音将被数字化，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与现代讲话者进行验证，并汇编成交互式多媒体科迪亚克群岛地名地图，供网站使用。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语言文本并指导选定演讲的解释。另一个目标是成立一个新词委员会（NWC），由英语流利和半流利的项目工作人员组成，他们将为该语言开发新词。以成功的夏威夷词汇委员会为蓝本，该小组将记录alutiq语言复兴实践的各个方面，随着社区向更健康的语言状态迈进。新单词、这些单词的录音和单词创造过程的文档将被包括在项目的在线数据库中，并以印刷的新词指南的形式传播。

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.