Mandan Language: Documentation, Description and Training [ISO 639 mhq]

75岁的埃德温·本森是唯一能说一口流利的曼丹语的人。记录他的故事和语言见解是曼丹部落的关键和优先事项。贝特霍德堡社区学院的首席研究员Alyce Spotted Bear将利用NSF的支持接受录音技术培训，这样她就可以完成这些计划中的第一个录音。实地方法培训将在贝特霍德堡社区学院进行，这是三个附属部落的一所部落学院，由Sara Trechter博士(加利福尼亚州立大学，CHICO)和Mauricio Mixco博士(犹他大学)协助。此外，斑点熊将参加加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的内场夏季研讨会。然后，这些专业知识将与部落成员分享，开始制作埃德温·本森的音频和视频数字录音，包括叙述和与其余半流利的说话者对话；目前，没有广泛的曼丹叙事或对话曼丹录音。这个项目，连同它的整体文件方面，将有助于曼丹语作为一种具有重要历史意义的口语继续存在。1804年冬天，曼丹印第安人用他们的语言交流，为刘易斯和克拉克的探险队的成功做出了贡献，为他们提供了食物和其他必需品，并提供了与西行有关的重要信息。该项目的网络数据库将使所有部落实体，包括用于教学目的的学校，以及整个语言学界都能获得这段历史的证据。该项目对部落成员在语言田野调查和语言分析方面的教育益处是深远的，因为他们能够与整个社区分享他们所获得的专门知识。

Edwin Benson, age 75, is the sole remaining fluent speaker of the Mandan language. Recording his stories and linguistic insights is critical and a priority for the Mandan Tribe. Alyce Spotted Bear, Principal Investigator from Fort Berthold Community College, will use NSF support to receive training in recording techniques so that she can accomplish the first of these planned recordings. Field methods training will take place at the Fort Berthold Community College, a tribal college of the Three Affiliated Tribes, with the assistance of Dr. Sara Trechter (California State University, Chico) and Dr. Mauricio Mixco (University of Utah). Additionally, Spotted Bear will attend the Infield summer workshops at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This expertise will then be shared with tribal members to begin producing audio and video digital recordings of Edwin Benson in narration and in conversation with the remaining semi-fluent speakers; currently, there are no extensive recordings of Mandan narratives or conversational Mandan. This project, with its overall documentation aspects, will contribute to the Mandan language's continuation as an historically significant spoken language. The Mandan Indians, communicating in their language, contributed to the success of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery by providing them with foodstuff and other necessities during the winter of 1804, and provided vital information related to the westward journey. The project's web database will make the evidence of this history accessible to all tribal entities, including the schools for instructional purposes, and to the linguistics community in general. This project's educational benefits to tribal members in linguistic fieldwork and language analysis are far-reaching in terms of their being able to share their acquired expertise with the community at-large.