Expanding the dictionary and database for Lenape, a Native American language

构成一种语言的最低限度科学文献的基本要素包括参考语法、词典和带有翻译和语言分析的转录叙述。 词典涉及广泛的语言分析，当代词典是通过电子数据库构建的，电子数据库构建了一组数据，并允许多种途径搜索信息。 随着数字词典工具的出现，条目包括声音文件、照片、语法信息和整个故事。字典包含历史知识，甚至可以作为学习工具。该项目将扩大濒危美洲土著语言Lenape的现有词典和数据库。美国国会于1990年通过的《美洲原住民语言法》承认了美洲原住民语言的独特地位和重要性。 美洲原住民语言的词典和数据库通过增加获取语言和文化材料的机会，特别是通过在线和移动的形式传播，促进了知识的发展。该项目将增加无法访问的录音，故事和历史实例，并将资助专业音频修复，以提高声音文件的质量。更广泛的影响包括支持部落公民学习他们的传统语言，以及更大的公众对美洲原住民语言、文化和历史的兴趣。特拉华州印第安语曾经在大约20，000平方英里的地区使用--整个新泽西州、宾夕法尼亚州东部、特拉华州北方和纽约州东南部。 在17世纪和18世纪，Lenape人逐渐从他们的家园流离失所，但这种语言继续被使用，包括作为许多出生于1900年代初的俄克拉荷马州Lenape人的第一语言，但各种因素减少了语言的使用。俄克拉荷马州特拉华州部落的Lenape有声词典是第一批在线的、音频增强的美洲土著语言词典之一，这要归功于国家科学基金会的支持。Lenape Talking Dictionary是一个丰富的Lenape语言知识库，供部落成员学习他们的语言和历史，以及研究该语言及其在Algonquian语系中的亲属的学者使用。该词典可用于网络和移动的格式，除了单词和附带的音频文件外，还包括广泛的材料，包括大量转录和翻译的句子和故事，通常带有音频。勒纳佩语在句法上使用了高度复杂的形态结构。 扩大这个数据库以增加录音、故事和词汇示例的数量，将使专注于形态学、句法、阿尔冈琴语和其他领域的部落成员和语言学家受益。 大量的双语例子、音频、语法讨论和课程汇编增加了Lenape语的形态句法对更广泛的公众和部落公民以及对美洲土著历史、传统和文化感兴趣的民俗学家、人类学家和历史学家的可及性。

The essential elements that constitute the minimal scientific documentation of a language include a reference grammar, a dictionary, and transcribed narratives with translations and linguistic analysis. Dictionaries involve extensive linguistic analysis, and contemporary dictionaries are constructed via electronic databases, which structure a set of data and allow multiple routes to search for information. With the advent of digital dictionary tools, entries include sound files, photographs, grammar information, and entire stories. Dictionaries contain historical knowledge, and even serve as learning tools. This project will expand the existing dictionary and database of an endangered Native American language, Lenape. The Native American Languages Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, enacted into policy the recognition of the unique status and importance of Native American languages. Dictionaries and databases for Native American languages advance knowledge by increasing access to linguistic and cultural materials, especially when disseminated in online and mobile formats. This project will add otherwise inaccessible recordings, stories and historical examples, and it will fund professional audio restoration to improve quality of sound files. Broader impacts include the support of tribal citizens studying their heritage language and the interest of a larger public audience Native American languages, culture and history.Lenape, the Delaware Indian language, was once spoken over an area of about 20,000 square miles - all of New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, northern Delaware, and southeastern New York states. The Lenape people were gradually displaced from their homeland in the 1600s and 1700s but the language continued to be spoken, including as the first language of many Oklahoma Lenape born in the early 1900s, but a variety of factors have reduced the language's use. The Lenape Talking Dictionary of the Oklahoma-based Delaware Tribe was among the first online, audio-enhanced dictionaries for a Native American language, thanks to support from the National Science Foundation. The Lenape Talking Dictionary serves as a rich repository of linguistic knowledge of Lenape for tribal members studying their language and history, and for scholars researching the language and its relatives in the Algonquian language family. The dictionary is usable in web and mobile format and includes a wide range of material besides words and accompanying audio files, including a significant number of transcribed and translated sentences and stories, often with audio. Lenape employs highly complex morphological structures in its syntax. Expanding this database to increase the number of recordings, stories and lexical examples will benefit tribal members and linguists who focus on morphology, syntax, Algonquian languages, and other areas. The large compendium of bilingual examples, audio, grammar discussion and lessons increase the accessibility of the morphosyntax of Lenape to a broader public audience and tribal citizens, and to folklorists, anthropologists and historians with interests in Native American history, traditions and culture.