Indigenous language database project

在大约12000年的时间里，许多小的觅食群落在现在的美国地区平衡地生活着。利用该项目创造的资源，语言学家正在重建他们的关系和历史，社区成员正在恢复语言和文化，这是恢复性司法和治愈世代创伤的重要姿态。该项目对科学家和社区都有丢失危险的无价语言资源进行汇编、说明并使之可用。这项研究的科学成果对我们理解人类史前和语言接触和变化理论做出了重要贡献，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。该项目向土著社区提供了一个语言数据库，包括语法、词典、口头文学集(翻译、分析和注释)，以及项目工作人员为人们创建的一系列材料和过程，使每个人的家都成为使用和培育语言的“语言巢”。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，为他们各自的语言创建了一个相同类型的数据库。这些数据库结合在一起，使研究人员能够重建该地区最早居民的语言史，具有迄今不可能实现的特异性、完整性和置信度。这一奖项是国家科学基金会和国家人文基金会为国家科学基金会动态语言基础设施-NEH记录濒危语言项目建立的资金合作伙伴关系的一部分。该奖项反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.