Searchable Archive of Annotated Lamkang Texts [ISO 639 lmk]

Manipuri Lamkang主要在印度曼尼普尔邦的东南部地区使用，不超过5，000人，不断受到占主导地位的邦语Meithei的压力。 它是藏缅语系的北方Kuki-Chin分支的一员。 Shobhana Chelliah将利用国家科学基金会的支持，对南港进行为期两年的研究，以创建一个可搜索的25小时自然发生的语音事件档案，代表各种南港演讲者互动。 Chelliah博士将与Manipuri语言学家Harimohon Thounaojam博士一起沿着工作，在母语人士的帮助下收集，转录，翻译和分析南港文本。 曼尼普尔出版的大多数语法描述都不包括音频或视频记录。 这个项目将展示数字音频和视频录制的重要性和最佳实践方法。 该项目还将说明一个可行的方法，使用自然发生的话语，以指导语法分析。 在这样做的时候，它将挑战目前的范式基础上的语言语法的曼尼普尔语主要是基于问卷调查的Meithei结构。 所产生的材料将包括一个专门用于存档和注释的南港文本的网站;附带的结构和文化注释;南港词典;以及以母语为母语的无障碍脚本打印文本。 南港的档案资料将记录南港和美泰之间强烈语言接触的影响，并允许对接触引起的语言变化的理论进行比较。 大量从密贴语借用的词汇已经改变了南康语的词汇和语音，从而模糊了南康语与其他库基语的关系。 藏缅语档案资料对于理解藏缅语的语篇结构以及句法与语篇、语用的相互作用也是至关重要的。 档案数据将为编写教学和文化材料提供丰富的信息，以便母语者可以在为年轻人提供的语言课程中使用这些材料。

Manipuri Lamkang, spoken primarily in the southeastern region of Manipur State, India by no more than 5,000 people, is under constant pressure from the dominant state language, Meithei. It is a member of the Northern Kuki-Chin branch of the Tibeto-Burman family. Using National Science Foundation support, Shobhana Chelliah will conduct a two year study of Lamkang to create a searchable archive of 25 hours of naturally occurring speech events, representative of a variety of Lamkang speaker interactions. Dr. Chelliah will work along with Manipuri linguist Dr. Harimohon Thounaojam to collect, transcribe, translate, and analyze Lamkang texts with the help of native speakers. Most grammatical descriptions published in Manipur do not include audio or video recordings. This project will demonstrate the importance and best practice methods of digital audio and video recording. The project will also illustrate a feasible methodology for the use of naturally occurring discourse to guide grammatical analysis. In doing so, it will contest the current paradigm of basing linguistic grammars of Manipuri languages primarily on questionnaires based on Meithei structure. Resulting materials will include a website dedicated to archived and annotated Lamkang texts; accompanying structural and cultural notes; a Lamkang lexicon; and print equivalents of texts in native speaker's accessible scripts. The Lamkang archive data will document the effects of intense language contact between Lamkang and Meithei and allow a comparison among theories of contact-induced language change. Massive lexical borrowing from Meithei is already changing Lamkang's lexicon and phonology thereby obscuring its relationship to other Kuki languages. Archive data will also be vital for understanding Tibeto-Burman discourse structure and the interaction of syntax with discourse and pragmatics. Archive data will provide a wealth of information for the preparation of pedagogical and cultural materials so that native speakers can use these materials in language programs for the younger speakers.