Documentation of the Vlashki/Zheyanski Language ('RUO')

Vlashki/Zheyanski是一种严重濒危的巴尔干半岛的罗曼语，在克罗地亚伊斯特拉半岛的六个山村中使用。南部村庄的人称他们的语言为Vlashki，而更北部村庄的人称之为Zheyanski。在Vlashki/Zheyanski似乎离失去大多数流利的使用者只有几十年的时候，这个项目试图通过创建一个注释的数字语言语料库，包括音频和视频记录以及更早的书面文本和双向三语词典，来实现对该语言的全面记录。（Vlashki/Zheyanski，克罗地亚语和英语），以及语言的句法描述，以及影响其目前濒危的宏观和微观社会语言学力量的研究。值得注意的是，设想中的语料库不仅包括来自克罗地亚家乡的音频和视频数据，而且还包括来自克罗地亚以外最大的Vlashki/Zheyanski社区的音频和视频数据，该社区位于纽约市，以及20世纪20年代和30年代的数据。因此，它将提供深入了解语言的变化，从20世纪20年代和30年代到今天，在两个家园社区和一个散居社区，这一严重濒危语言的文件将实现，同时教育语言的人，以语言的价值和迫切需要的文件。项目材料-词典、音频和视频材料精选、句法和社会语言学研究、1920年代和1930年代的全部翻译书面文本-将向社区成员提供。在某些情况下，将通过现有语文网站（www.vlaski-zejanski.com）提供。该项目以社区为中心的方向建立在并加强了与社区成员正在进行的工作。

Vlashki/Zheyanski, a severely endangered Balkan Romance language, is spoken in six mountain villages in the Istrian peninsula in Croatia. Speakers in the southern villages call their language Vlashki, while those in a village further north call it Zheyanski. At a point when Vlashki/Zheyanski appears to be no more than a few decades away from losing most of its fluent speakers, this project seeks to achieve a comprehensive documentation of the language by creating an annotated digital linguistic corpus of audio and video recordings and older written texts and a bidirectional trilingual dictionary (Vlashki/Zheyanski, Croatian, and English), as well as a description of the syntax of the language, and a study of the macro- and micro-sociolinguistic forces that have affected its current endangerment. The envisioned corpus is noteworthy for including audio and video data not only from the home villages in Croatia, but also from the largest community of Vlashki/Zheyanski speakers outside Croatia, that in New York City, as well as data from the 1920s and 1930s. Hence, it will provide insight into variation in the language, from the 1920s and 1930s until today, and in two homeland communities and one diaspora community.Documentation of this severely endangered language will be achieved while simultaneously educating speakers of the language as to the value of the language and the pressing need for its documentation. Project materials -- the dictionary, a selection of audio and video materials, the syntactic and sociolinguistic studies, the complete translated written texts from the 1920s and 1930s -- will be accessible to community members. In some cases, availability will be achieved via the existing language website (www.vlaski-zejanski.com). The community-centered orientation of the project builds on and reinforces ongoing work with community members.