Documentation of Kumeyaay/Kumiai Spoken in Baja, Mexico [ISO 639 dih]

墨西哥巴哈口语 Kumeyaay/Kumiai 的文档 [ISO 639 dih]

• 批准号: 0753853
• 负责人: Margaret Field
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: San Diego State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-15 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0753853&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Documentation; Kumeyaay; Kumiai; Spoken; Baja

Kumeyaay is a moribund language of the Yuman language family, spoken in Baja, California. Although two Northern dialects of Kumeyaay spoken in the U.S. have previously been described, relatively little systematic linguistic fieldwork or documentation has been done on the Mexican dialect. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Margaret Field (San Diego State University) and colleagues will create a reference grammar and lexicon based on transcripts of audio and video data of naturally-occurring talk, including conversation, oral histories, narratives, descriptions of traditional practices, and explanations concerning local dialect differences. Using discourse data allows us to learn more about how the language and discourse structure works in natural contexts, as opposed to information learned through elicitation of isolated sentences. It will also provide examples of spontaneous interaction to create culturally-appropriate language materials.This project will result in a reference grammar and Spanish-English-Kumeyaay dictionary for the Baja dialect as well as Spanish-Kumeyaay pedagogical materials. All of the digital data collected will be archived at UT Austin's Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America for academics and tribal communities to access for use in further research and language revitalization efforts as well. This project will also involve the close collaboration of Baja Kumeyaay community through multiple language workshops designed to heighten awareness of the endangered status of the language and methods for its revitalization. Baja Kumeyaay speakers, who greatly outnumber U.S. Kumeyaay speakers, will then be able to teach the language via immersion methodologies, allowing language revitalization efforts across the U.S.-Mexico border to progress in the target language itself.

Kumeyaay是尤曼语系的一种濒临消亡的语言，在加州的巴哈使用。虽然在美国使用的Kumeyaay的两种北方方言以前已经被描述过，但对墨西哥方言的系统语言学田野调查或文献相对较少。在美国国家科学基金会的资助下，Margaret Field博士（圣地亚哥州立大学）和同事们将根据自然发生的谈话的音频和视频数据的转录，包括对话，口述历史，叙述，传统习俗的描述，以及对当地方言差异的解释，创建一个参考语法和词汇。使用话语数据可以让我们更多地了解语言和话语结构在自然语境中的工作方式，而不是通过孤立句子的启发来学习信息。该项目还将提供自发互动的例子，以创造适合文化的语言材料，该项目将为巴哈方言编写参考语法和西班牙语-英语-Kumeyaay词典以及西班牙语-Kumeyaay教学材料。所有收集的数字数据将存档在奥斯汀大学的拉丁美洲土著语言档案馆，供学术界和部落社区访问，以用于进一步的研究和语言振兴工作。该项目还将涉及Baja Kumeyaay社区的密切合作，举办多种语言讲习班，以提高对该语言濒危状况的认识，并提出振兴该语言的方法。Baja Kumeyaay的使用者人数大大超过美国Kumeyaay使用者，他们将能够通过沉浸式方法教授语言，从而使美国各地的语言振兴工作得以进行。墨西哥边境的目标语言本身的进展。