Koniag Alutiiq (EMS) Orthography Project

Koniag Alutiiq (EMS) 正字法项目

• 批准号: 1153156
• 负责人: April Counceller
• 金额: $ 4.06万
• 依托单位: Alutiiq Heritage Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-15 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1153156&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Koniag; Alutiiq; EMS; Orthography; Project

The Koniag Alutiiq Orthography project will compile and complete existing, unpublished research to develop a stable, standardized orthography system for Kodiak Alutiiq.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.

Koniag Komtiiq正字法项目将汇编和完成现有的、未发表的研究，为科迪亚克Komtiiq开发一个稳定的、标准化的正字法系统。 PI，阿拉斯加大学科迪亚克学院的April Counceller博士，将与著名的阿拉斯加语言学家Jeff Leer合作，Jeff Leer最近从UAF的阿拉斯加土著语言中心退休。Counceller将汇编Leer以前关于Artitiiq书写系统的研究笔记和文章，从剩下的几个流利的演讲者（不到50个，所有老年人和分散在阿拉斯加）收集新数据，并创建一个书写系统书，将可供传统演讲者使用。 这些数据将对语言学者为濒危语言和比较语言学开发正字法产生极大的兴趣。 此外，该项目还将创建材料，这将有助于为未来的遗产使用者保存阿提克语。 项目PI正确地指出，该项目适合RAPID资助，因为许多因素共同使该项目成功和及时：1）Leer博士的可用性和参与意愿; 2）少数流利的第一语言使用者的可用性减弱; 3）阿拉斯加土著公司，Chugachmiut愿意通过分享类似方言材料来支持Counceller博士，（4）社区迫切需要正字法，以编写语言复兴文本。