Recording the Dena'ina Language [ISO 639 tfn]

德纳语是阿拉斯加的一种濒临灭绝的阿萨巴斯加语，只剩下不到75人会说。有四种主要的方言：上Inlet(在Eklutna，Tyonek，Susitna和Knik说)；外Inlet(在基奈半岛说)；内陆(在农达顿，莱姆村说)；Illiamna(在Pedro Bay，Old Illiamna，Lake Illiamna说)。尽管语言学家在过去记录了大量的这种语言，但很少被转录或组织成概念领域。在国家科学基金会的支持下，阿拉斯加土著遗产中心的帕特里夏·帕特诺博士和她的团队将在农达顿和莱姆村的德纳那村庄进行为期三年的关于成年仪式和成年仪式的语言领域的研究。该项目的最终产品将包括新的与音频和视频有关的实地录音。这些录音将被翻译、数字化和编入索引，然后由现有的语言材料加以补充，这些录音将涵盖德纳纳男女“成熟”的12个方面。如果没有这种集中的田野调查，这种语言注定在本世纪中叶之前灭绝。Dena‘ina学习者(其中三人将进行大部分研究)面临的挑战是既有机会在有意义的环境中学习语言，又有机会学习与学习者本身的需求和兴趣相关的信息。该项目将产生一个语境化的语言录音语料库，可以制作成网页、视频教学工具和播客，传播给任何对这种语言感兴趣的人。与此同时，年轻的德纳纳语言学习者将熟练地进行语言实地调查，并将提高他们翻译和转录口语文本的技能。了解德纳纳语言领域以及语言被说和教的背景是该项目成功的基础。

Dena'ina is an endangered Athabascan language of Alaska, with fewer than 75 speakers remaining. There are four primary dialects: Upper Inlet (spoken in Eklutna, Tyonek, Susitna, and Knik); Outer Inlet (spoken on the Kenai Peninsula); Inland (spoken in Nondalton, Lime Village); and Illiamna (spoken in Pedro Bay, Old Illiamna, Lake Illiamna). Although linguists have recorded a great deal of the language in the past, little has been transcribed or organized into conceptual domains. With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Patricia Partnow of the Alaska Native Heritage Center and her team will conduct three years of research on linguistic domains in the context of rites of passage and coming of age in the Dena'ina villages of Nondalton and Lime Village. The end products of this project will include new audio and video contextualized field recordings. These recordings will be translated, digitized and indexed, then supplemented by existing language materials, and together will encompass twelve aspects of "coming of age" for Dena'ina men and women.Without concentrated fieldwork of this sort, the language is destined for extinction before the middle of this century. The challenge facing Dena'ina learners (three of whom will conduct the bulk of this research) is having both the opportunities for learning the language in meaningful contexts and learning information that is relevant to the needs and interests of the learners themselves. This project will result in a corpus of contextualized language recordings that can be produced as web pages, video teaching tools, and podcasts for dissemination to anyone with an interest in the language. At the same time, young Dena'ina language learners will become proficient in conducting linguistic fieldwork and will improve their skills in translating and transcribing oral texts.Understanding the Dena'ina linguistic domains and the context in which the language is spoken and taught is fundamental to the success of this project.