Dictionary of Ninam, a Yanomaman Language

该项目的目标是完成和出版一本尼南语词典，尼南语是一种濒临灭绝的雅诺马曼语，在巴西和委内瑞拉罗赖马的穆卡贾伊河、上乌拉尔河和帕拉瓜河沿岸只有沿着560人讲这种语言。 该项目完成了Ernesto Migliazza在20世纪60年代开始的词典;它保护了以前收集的信息，否则会有风险，并通过实地调查扩大了语言及其词汇条目的信息。将编制两个版本：一个是为学者提供的技术性更强的版本（有Ninam、葡萄牙语、西班牙语和英语的查找选项），一个是为Ninam社区和当地教育工作者提供的实用版本（Ninam、葡萄牙语和西班牙语）。 这种语言提供了许多科学兴趣。词典将包含一个语法草图，注意不寻常的类型学特征，其中Ninam有一些，例如，证据系统，鼻音和谐，连续动词和不寻常的作格，等等。这本词典将具有其他拉丁美洲土著语言词典所没有的优点，保留了词汇中编码的濒危知识系统。Ninam词典将服务于语言学和其他依赖于语言相关材料的学科（人类学，历史，生物学，地理学）。这本词典将使Ninam社区受益，满足学校语言维护工作和母语课程所急需的资源材料的需求。该项目为美国和巴西的研究生提供培训。它使关心文化多样性的公众受益，增加了具有文化和语言意义的信息。它有助于语言类型学，语言学理论，并了解雅诺马曼语言及其使用者的历史。

The goal of this project is to complete and publish a dictionary of Ninam, an endangered Yanomaman language, spoken by only 560 people along the Mucajaí, upper Uraricaá, and Paragua rivers in Roraima, Brazil and Venezuela. This project completes the dictionary began by Ernesto Migliazza in the 1960s; it secures previously collected information otherwise at risk, with fieldwork to expand the information on the language and its lexical entries. Two versions will be prepared: a more technical one for scholars (with look up options in Ninam, Portuguese, Spanish, and English), and a practical version for the Ninam communities and local educators (Ninam, Portuguese, and Spanish). The language offers much of scientific interest. The dictionary will contain a grammatical sketch, with attention to unusual typological traits, of which Ninam has a number, for example, an evidentiality system, nasal harmony, serial verbs, and unusual ergativity, among others. This dictionary will have the merits well known from other dictionaries of indigenous Latin American languages, preserving endangered knowledge systems encoded in vocabulary. The Ninam dictionary will serve linguistics and other disciplines which depend on language-related material (anthropology, history, biology, geography). The dictionary will benefit Ninam communities, addressing the need for resource materials much needed for language maintenance efforts and native-language curriculum in schools. The project provides training of graduate students in both the US and Brazil. It benefits the general public interested in cultural diversity, increasing information of cultural as well as linguistic significance. It contributes to language typology, linguistic theory, and to understanding the history of the Yanomaman languages and their speakers.