Doctoral Dissertation Research:: Documenting Bih, An Austronesian Language of Vietnam In A Comparative Perspective: A Bih/Rade/English/Vietnamese Dictionary

博士论文研究：《Bih/拉德语/英语/越南语词典》Bih是越南南部高地的一种查姆语。在Buon Trap镇，大约有500人认为自己是Bih族，但只有不到30人能说流利的Bih语。这证实了人们的担心，即老年人是最后一代说波黑语的人。这个博士论文项目将通过提供有史以来第一个Bih的正字法来促进语言的保护。共同PI谭阮的俄勒冈州大学将承担重要的现场工作的语言。co-PI将以对话、民间传说、歌曲和其他话语形式记录自然语言数据。这些口头文本辅以适当的逐字启发将有助于词汇的发展Bih/拉德/英语/越南语词典。Bih/拉德/英语/越南语词典承诺提供语言学和相关领域的重大贡献，因为没有语法，词典或学术出版物提供的语言日期。详细的Bih词汇文件有助于南岛语族历史语言学领域，特别是对重建原始历史感兴趣的越南学者，如人类学，考古学，民俗学，艺术史和人口遗传学。首先，该项目将对那些担心失去语言并希望有书面形式的词汇来保存语言的波黑人有用。由于与太原大学和Daklak民族研究中心的合作包括在内，拟议的项目经过精心设计，以满足发言社区以及学术界的需求。

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Documenting Bih, an Austronesian language of Vietnam in a comparative perspective: a Bih/Rade/English/Vietnamese DictionaryBih is a Chamic language spoken in the Southern highlands of Vietnam. Around 500 people in Buon Trap town consider themselves as Bih ethnically, but fewer than 30 people are fluent in Bih. This supports the fear that the generation of elderly adults is the last generation speaking Bih. This doctoral dissertation project will contribute toward the preservation of the language by providing the first-ever orthography of Bih. Co-PI Tam Nguyen of the University of Oregon will undertake significant onsite work with the language. The co-PI will record natural language data in the form of conversations, folklore, songs and other forms of discourse. These oral texts supplemented with word-by-word elicitation when appropriate will contribute vocabulary toward the development of a Bih/Rade/English/Vietnamese dictionary.A Bih/Rade/English/Vietnamese dictionary promises to offer a significant contribution to linguistics and related fields as there are no grammars, dictionaries or scholarly publications available on the language to date. A detailed documentation of the Bih lexicon contributes to the field of Austronesian historical linguistics, particularly to Vietnamese scholars interested in the reconstruction of proto-history, such as anthropology, archaeology, folklore, art-history and population genetics. First and foremost, the project will be of use to the Bih people who exhibit the fear of their language loss and wish to have written forms of their lexicon for language preservation. As collaboration with the University of Tay Nguyen and the Center of Daklak Ethnic Research is included, the proposed project is carefully designed to meet the needs of the speaking community as well as those of the academic communities.