Chiwere (ISO 639-3: iow) Audio Archive Project (CAAP)

Chiwere是一种濒临灭绝的美洲原住民语言，属于苏族。虽然在过去的150年里，传教士、人类学家和语言学家记录了关于奇韦尔的宝贵信息，但奇韦尔缺乏必要的文献，也没有流利的语言者来贡献新的数据。 Chiware音频档案项目（CAAP）将使语言学家，印度社区和公众能够获得最后一位流利发言者讲述的Chiware口头文学作品的录音和文本。 由于这些收藏品是在20世纪60年代至90年代使用脆弱的盒式磁带和卷对卷制作的，该项目将把这些模拟录音转换为数字文件。 然后，项目人员将在Chiware中转录录音，将其翻译成英语，并用语言，历史和文化信息对其进行注释。 最后，录音和文本将在网上提供，并分发给档案馆和利益相关者部落。奇韦尔语是联邦政府承认的三个印第安部落的遗产语言，分布在俄克拉荷马州、堪萨斯和内布拉斯加州。 CAAP通过提供资源来支持这些社区的语言振兴目标，使这些社区受益。 虽然没有流利的语言仍然存在，但一些人从他们的亲戚那里学会了说和理解Chiware，今天仍然在某些环境中使用这种语言。 许多部落成员希望从长辈的声音中学习更多的传统语言，但几乎没有基于音频的教学材料来满足这一需求。 CAAP将通过让土著社区获得传统故事、口述历史和歌曲的录音和文本来纠正这种情况。 CAAP还将雇用部落成员作为项目助理，并培训他们成为社区的语言策展人。 除了有利于部落成员，CAAP也有利于语言学家。 奇韦尔语比许多苏族语言，特别是密西西比河谷语系的其他语言更难理解。 CAAP有利于进一步研究Chiwere语法和比较苏族的主题，并将广泛的兴趣，语言学家。 总体而言，CAAP将通过保存和提供具有不可替代的语言和文化意义的Chiware录音和文本，满足语言学家，部落利益相关者和公众的需求。

Chiwere is a critically endangered Native American language belonging to the Siouan family. While missionaries, anthropologists, and linguists have recorded valuable information about Chiwere over the past 150 years, Chiwere lacks essential documentation, and no fluent speakers remain to contribute new data. The Chiwere Audio Archive Project (CAAP) will give linguists, Indian communities, and the general public access to audio recordings and texts from a collection of Chiwere oral literature told by the last fluent speakers. Since the collection was made during the 1960s-1990s using fragile cassette tapes and reel-to-reels, the project will convert these analogue recordings to digital files. Project personnel will then transcribe the recordings in Chiwere, translate them into English, and annotate them with linguistic, historical, and cultural information. Finally, the recordings and texts will be made available online and distributed to archives and stakeholder tribes.Chiwere is a heritage language for three federally recognized Indian tribes in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. CAAP benefits these communities by providing resources to support their language revitalization goals. While no fluent speakers remain, a few individuals learned to speak and understand Chiwere from their relatives, and the language is still used in certain settings today. Many tribal members want to learn more of their traditional language from the voices of their elders, but there are few audio-based pedagogical materials to meet this need. CAAP will remedy this situation by giving Native communities access to recordings and texts of traditional stories, oral histories, and songs. CAAP will also employ tribal members as project assistants and train them to become language curators in their communities. In addition to benefiting tribal members, CAAP also benefits linguists. Chiwere is less understood than many Siouan languages, especially others in the Mississippi Valley subfamily. CAAP facilitates further research on Chiwere grammar and comparative Siouan topics and will be of broad interest to linguists. Overall, CAAP will meet the needs of linguists, tribal stakeholders, and the general public by preserving and making available Chiwere recordings and texts with irreplaceable linguistic and cultural significance.