Indigenous language database project

大约12，000年来，许多小型觅食社区在今天的美国地区生活在平衡中。利用该项目中创建的资源，语言学家正在重建他们的关系和历史，社区成员正在重新获得语言和文化，这是恢复性正义和治愈代际创伤的重要姿态。该项目汇编、阐释和提供了宝贵的语言资源，这些资源对科学家和社区来说都有丢失的危险。该研究的科学成果对我们理解人类史前史以及语言接触和变化的理论做出了重大贡献，而更广泛的影响包括培训和向社区成员转移数据管理，推动美国在尊重部落主权和自治的基础上与土著社区建立关系的努力。该项目为土著社区提供了一个语言数据库，包括语法，词典、口头文学作品集（翻译、分析和注释），以及项目工作人员为人们创造的一系列材料和过程，使他们的每个家庭都成为使用和培养语言的“语言巢穴”。对于该地区的其他几种语言，它为土著语言活动家和研究人员提供了范例和明确的指导，以便为各自的语言创建类似的数据库。这些数据库使研究人员能够重建该地区最早居民的语言历史，具有特异性，完整性和信心，直到现在都是不可能的。该奖项是国家科学基金会和国家人文基金会为NSF动态语言基础设施- NEH记录濒危语言计划建立的资助伙伴关系的一部分。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

For about 12,000 years, numerous small foraging communities lived in equilibrium in a region of what is now the US. Using resources created in this project, linguists are reconstructing their relationships and history, and community members are regaining language and culture, a vital gesture of restorative justice and healing of generational trauma. The project compiles, elucidates, and makes accessible invaluable language resources that are in danger of being lost both to scientists and to the communities. The scientific results of the study contribute significantly to our understanding of human prehistory and to theories of language contact and change, while the broader impacts include training and transfer of data stewardship to community members, advancing US efforts to build relationships with Indigenous communities based on respect for Tribal sovereignty and self-governance.This project delivers a linguistic database to the Indigenous community, with a grammar, dictionary, collection of oral literature (translated, analyzed, and annotated), and a range of materials and processes created by project staff for the people to make each of their homes a 'language nest' in which the language is used and nurtured. For several other languages in the area, it provides the example and explicit instruction for Indigenous language activists and researchers to create a database of the same sort for their respective languages. These databases together enable researchers to reconstruct the linguistic history of the earliest inhabitants of the region with specificity, completeness, and confidence that have until now been impossible. This award is made as part of a funding partnership between the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.