Koniag Alutiiq (EMS) Orthography Project

Koniag Alutiiq正字法项目将编译和完成现有的，未发表的研究，以开发一个稳定的，标准化的Kodiak Alutiiq正字法系统。PI是Alutiiq博物馆和阿拉斯加大学科迪亚克学院的April博士顾问，他将与著名的Alutiiq语言学家Jeff Leer合作，Jeff Leer最近从UAF的阿拉斯加本土语言中心退休。顾问将整理Leer之前关于Alutiiq书写系统的研究笔记和文章，从少数几个仍能流利使用Alutiiq书写系统的人（不到50人，都是老年人，分散在阿拉斯加各地）那里收集新的数据，并创建一本书写系统书籍，供传统语言使用者使用。这些数据将对语言学者开发濒危语言的正字法和比较语言学有很大的兴趣。此外，该项目还将为未来的遗产使用者创建有助于保存alutiq语言的材料。项目PI正确地陈述了该项目适合快速融资，因为许多因素汇集在一起，使该项目成功和及时：1)Leer博士的可用性和参与意愿；2)少数母语流利的人越来越少；3)阿拉斯加原住民公司，Chugachmiut愿意通过分享类似方言的材料来支持Counceller博士，以及4)社区迫切需要正字法，以便制作语言振兴文本。

The Koniag Alutiiq Orthography project will compile and complete existing, unpublished research to develop a stable, standardized orthography system for Kodiak Alutiiq. The PI, Dr. April Counceller of the Alutiiq Museum and University of Alaska - Kodiak College, will work with renowned Alutiiq Linguist Jeff Leer, who is recently retired from the Alaska Native Language Center at UAF. Counceller will compile Leer's previous research notes and articles on the Alutiiq writing system, collect new data from the few remaining fluent speakers (less than 50, all elderly and scattered throughout Alaska), and create a writing system book that will be accessible to heritage speakers. This data will be of great interest to language scholars developing orthographies for endangered languages and for comparative linguistics. In addition the project will create materials that this will assist in the preservation of the Alutiiq language for future heritage speakers. The project PI correctly states that this project is appropriate for RAPID funding because many factors have converged to make this project successful and timely: 1) the availability and willingness of Dr. Leer to participate; 2) the waning availability of a few fluent first-language speakers; 3) The Alaska Native Corporation, Chugachmiut's willingness to support Dr. Counceller through sharing of similar-dialect materials, and 4) the urgent need in the community for the orthography in order to produce language revitalization texts.