Mooretown Rancheria Northwestern Maidu Language Project [ISO 639 mjd]

摩尔城 Rancheria 西北 Maidu 语言项目 [ISO 639 mjd]

• 批准号: 0756819
• 负责人: Julie McIntosh
• 金额: $ 7.32万
• 依托单位: Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California
• 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: 2008-10-01 至 2010-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0756819&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mooretown; Rancheria; Northwestern; Maidu; Language

The Concow-Maidu Indians of northern California now live primarily on the Berry Creek, Enterprise, Mooretown rancherias, and neighboring communities. With support from the National Science Foundation, Julie McIntosh (Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California) and her team will document the nearly extinct Northwestern Maidu language (also called Konkow or Concow Maidu). It is now believed to have no more than four fluent speakers, and thus the urgency of the documentation effort is great. Although other Maiduan languages, particularly Northeastern (Mountain) Maidu, have received scholarly attention, Northwestern Maidu has so far been the subject of only limited study, and virtually none within the past forty years. The project will make video and audio recording of the speech of the remaining speakers; transcribe selected recordings; create a lexical database from both earlier sources and current speakers, and create an inventory of all extant written and electronic materials relating to the language. All language documentation materials will be prepared in a variety of paper, analog, and digital formats to make them maximally available both to the local indigenous communities and to researchers. With the silencing of hundreds of languages in the past decades, it has never been clearer that every human language represents a unique intellectual achievement, and that the loss of any language is a loss of knowledge that has repercussions far beyond the local community. The documentation of the Concow Maidu language will set the foundation for integrated research activities for the Maidu community, as well as for linguists. These first steps in documentation will prepare the way for the creation of a variety of resources to be used in language revitalization, both pedagogical materials and a grammar.

现在，北加州的Costow-Maidu印第安人现在主要生活在贝里溪，企业，摩尔镇兰切里亚斯和邻近社区。在国家科学基金会的支持下，朱莉·麦金托什（Julie McIntosh）（加利福尼亚州迈杜印第安人的Mooretown Rancheria）将记录几乎灭绝的西北Maidu语言（也称为Konkow或Costow Maidu）。 现在据信它的扬声器不超过四个流利的扬声器，因此文档工作的紧迫性很棒。尽管其他Maiduan语言，尤其是东北（山）Maidu，也引起了学术的关注，但西北Maidu到目前为止一直是只有有限研究的主题，而在过去的四十年中，几乎没有。该项目将对其余演讲者的演讲进行视频和音频录制；转录选定的录音；从早期来源和当前扬声器中创建词汇数据库，并创建与该语言有关的所有现存的书面和电子材料的清单。所有语言文档材料都将以各种论文，模拟和数字格式制备，以使其最大程度地用于当地的土著社区和研究人员。在过去几十年中数百种语言的沉默，从来没有清楚地表明，每种人类语言都代表着独特的知识成就，而失去任何语言的是失去知识的丧失，其影响远远超出了当地社区。 COSTOW MAIDU语言的文档将为Maidu社区以及语言学家的综合研究活动奠定基础。文档中的这些第一步将为创建各种资源用于语言振兴，包括教学材料和语法。