Kawaiisu Conversations and Landscapes: Digital Documentation, Access, and Archiving

卡瓦伊苏语是加州卡瓦伊苏人使用的一种极度濒危的乌托-阿兹特克语；剩下的5个以英语为母语的人，其中3个一直积极从事文献和振兴项目。以前的Kawaiisu文档通常集中在词汇项和语言的基本语法描述上。文档中的主要缺口是注释良好的文本材料，特别是自然的会话和叙事数据，这些数据将阐明Kawaiisu的用法和话语结构。此外，除了Kawaiisu语言文化中心制作的一些短视频外，基本上没有Kawaiisu的视频素材库，可以帮助研究语音和手势的同步等主题。这是一个至关重要的问题，因为这些范例对于语言习得和发展和维持一个重要的语言社区至关重要；这也是时间敏感的，因为这样一个语料库的发展依赖于语言的老年人的参与。本项目旨在弥补这一不足，并有四个主要目标。1. 与年长的讲者合作，制作至少54小时的会话和叙事卡哇伊苏的视听录音；2. 培训包括社区成员和语言学家在内的转录员团队，了解转录、注释和翻译卡瓦伊苏语的最佳实践。这项工作将建立在项目团队的社区成员在学习使用卡哇伊苏语的实用正字法阅读和书写卡哇伊苏语方面取得的成功的基础上；3. 制作高质量的转录，注释和翻译的选择收集的录音。3 .由于长者表示希望发展一套以卡瓦伊苏故土的事件和地点为重点的叙事，因此该项目将优先考虑具有这一重点的文本；向现有字典中添加500个带有例句的新条目。这个项目将帮助卡瓦伊苏族和其他语言社区实现他们的目标，即让第二语言学习者达到更高程度的语言流利程度，并为后代创造学习资源。项目成果、培训计划和数字技术的使用可以被其他使用濒危语言的土著社区复制。

Kawaiisu is a critically-endangered Uto-Aztecan language of the Kawaiisu people of California; there are five remaining native speakers, three have been actively engaged in documentation and revitalization projects. Prior documentation of Kawaiisu has typically focused on lexical items and a basic grammatical description of the language. The major gap in the documentation is well-annotated text material, especially natural conversational and narrative data that would shed light on Kawaiisu usage and discourse structure. Moreover, with the exception of a few short videos produced by the Kawaiisu Language and Culture Center, there is essentially no corpus of video footage for Kawaiisu that would facilitate the study of topics such as the co-timing of speech and gestures. This is a critical issue, given the important of such exemplars for language acquisition and for the development and maintenance of a vital linguistic community; it is also time-sensitive, as the development of such a corpus relies on the involvement of the language's elder speakers. This project seeks to remedy this lack, and has four main goals. 1. Working with the elder speakers, create a minimum of 54 hours of audiovisual recordings of conversational and narrative Kawaiisu; 2. Train teams of transcriptionists including community members and linguists in best practices in transcribing, glossing, and translating Kawaiisu. This work will build on the previous successes community members of the project team have had in learning to read and write Kawaiisu using the practical orthography of the Kawaiisu language; 3. Produce high-quality transcriptions, glosses, and translations of a selection of the collected recordings. As the elders have expressed a desire to develop a set of narratives focused on events and places in the Kawaiisu homeland, texts with this focus will be given priority in the project;4. Add 500 new entries with example sentences to the existing dictionary.This project will assist the Kawaiisu, and other speech communities, in their goal to have second language learners achieve higher degree of fluency in their language and create study resources for generations to come. The project results, training program, and use of digital technologies can be duplicated by other native communities with endangered languages.