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

Vlashki/Zheyanski 语言 (RUO) 的文档

• 批准号: 1160696
• 负责人: John Singler
• 金额: $ 19.04万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 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: 2012-09-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1160696&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Documentation; Vlashki; Zheyanski; Language; RUO

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.

Vlashki/Zheyanski是一种严重濒危的巴尔干罗曼语，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，而北部村庄的人称他们的语言为Zheyanski。在Vlashki/Zheyanski语似乎离失去大部分流利使用者只有几十年的时间的时候，这个项目试图通过创建一个带注释的音频、视频记录和旧书面文本的数字语料库和一个双向三语词典（Vlashki/Zheyanski语、克罗地亚语和英语），以及语言语法的描述，来实现对该语言的全面记录。以及对影响其当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，设想的语料库不仅包括克罗地亚家乡的音频和视频数据，还包括克罗地亚以外最大的Vlashki/Zheyanski社区，即纽约市，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年代直到今天，在两个本土社区和一个散居社区。将对这种严重濒危的语言进行文献记录，同时教育该语言的使用者了解该语言的价值和对其文献记录的迫切需要。项目材料——词典、精选的音频和视频材料、句法和社会语言学研究、20世纪20年代和30年代的完整翻译文本——将对社区成员开放。在某些情况下，可以通过现有的语言网站（www.vlaski-zejanski.com）获得。该项目以社区为中心的方向建立并加强了与社区成员正在进行的工作。