Documentation of Rengmitca (Tibeto-Burman)

Rengmitca（藏缅语）文献

• 批准号: 1360770
• 负责人: David Peterson
• 金额: $ 17.56万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-15 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1360770&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Documentation; Rengmitca; Tibeto; Burman

Rengmitca is a highly endangered Tibeto-Burman language currently spoken by fewer than fifty individuals along a tributary of the Matamuhuri river in Southeastern Bangladesh. Study of the language is crucial because its core vocabulary exhibits a number of conservative features for a Tibeto-Burman language: Rengmitca retains not only consonants that the Tibeto-Burman parent language had at the ends of its words, but also prefixal elements which most modern languages have lost. Rengmitca may thus act as an independent source for verifying hypotheses about the parent language. The relationship through contact of the language to a second language, Mru, which all Rengmitca speakers have as their primary language, is also of particular theoretical interest. This project will collect as much data as possible for the language before it disappears. Project members will gather a corpus of texts representing different genres from the remaining speakers. Using collected text material and other investigative methods, a lexicon of essential Rengmitca items will be assembled. The project will attempt to provide a detailed phonology and sketch grammar for the language. The project will archive documentary materials for the language at Dartmouth College and with The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures.

Rengmitca是一种高度濒危的藏缅语，目前在孟加拉国东南部的Matamuhuri河支流上只有不到50人使用。对这种语言的研究至关重要，因为它的核心词汇表现出一些藏缅语的保守特征：Rengmitca不仅保留了藏缅语母语单词结尾的辅音，而且还保留了大多数现代语言已经失去的前缀元素。因此，Rengmitca可以作为一个独立的来源来验证关于母语的假设。通过语言与第二语言Mru的接触的关系，所有Rengmitca人都将其作为他们的主要语言，也是特别有理论意义的。 该项目将在该语言消失之前收集尽可能多的数据。项目成员将从其余发言者那里收集代表不同流派的文本语料库。使用收集的文本材料和其他调查方法，将汇编一本基本Rengmitca项目的词典。该项目将试图提供一个详细的语音和草图语法的语言。该项目将在达特茅斯学院和太平洋和区域濒危文化数字资源档案馆存档该语言的文献材料。