Research on tape-recorded materials in Turkic languages of the northen Siberia

该项目（1996-1998）主要研究本世纪上半叶由俄罗斯和苏联研究人员记录的语言材料（来自俄罗斯圣彼得堡普希金博物馆基金）。这些材料对俄罗斯或苏联以外的研究人员是不可用的，但在1995年，这些材料被开放了。他们中的大多数都以磁带的形式重新录制。我们选取了欧亚大陆北部的一些突厥语料，试图从语言学的角度对其进行分析。首先，我们研究了所有的材料，包括各种类型的文本，如故事、口语、歌曲等。其中，由于磁带录音设备的原因，许多文本的保存状况很差，对这些文本进行分析非常困难。但是一些雅库特语的材料正在分析中，我们正在努力出版这些文本。除了这些材料外，还必须有书面和录音形式的其他材料。在这个项目的3年任期内，我们有机会获得有关西伯利亚语言收集或出版的语言材料的信息，迄今为止还没有语言学家研究过这些语言。例如，俄罗斯科学院圣彼得堡分院的雅库特语东正教传教文学。西伯利亚的这些语言大多是所谓的“濒危语言”，即以其为母语的人正在急剧减少。通过这个项目，我们意识到语言学这一领域研究的重要性和紧迫性。

This project (1996-1998) is concerned with the linguistic materials (from the fund of the Pushkin Museum in St. Petersbirg, Russia) mainly recorded by Russian and Soviet researchers in the first half of this centuly. These materials were not available for researchers outside Russia or Soviet Union, but in 1995 these materials were opened. Most of them are re-recorded in form of tape. We selected some materials of Turkic languages in the northern part of Eurasia and tried to analyze them from linguistic point of view. In the first place, we examined all of the materials which include various types of texts as tales, colloquial speech, songs, and so on. Among them many materials were in bad condition on account of tape-record devices and it is very difficult to analyze these texts. But some materials in Yakut language are under analyses and we are working on to publish these texts.Besides these materials, there must be other materials both in written form as well as in tape-recorded form. In the 3 year's term of this project we had a chance to get information about language materials collected or published in languages in Siberia in which none of linguists researched so far. For example, orthodox missionary literature in Yakut language in St. Petersburg branch of Russian Academy of Science. Most of these language in Siberia are so called "endangered languages, " namely whose native speakers are intensively decreasing. Through this project we realized the importance and urgency of the research in this field of linguistics.