Lexical resources for Enggano, a threatened language of Indonesia

印度尼西亚受威胁语言 Enggano 的词汇资源

• 批准号: AH/W007290/1
• 负责人: Mary Dalrymple
• 金额: $ 32.25万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW007290%2F1
• 关键词: Lexical; resources; Enggano; threatened; language

Enggano, with about 1500 speakers, is spoken on Enggano Island, off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Enggano is classified as "threatened": only the elder generation are fully competent and fluent speakers. Many children speak Indonesian and little to no Enggano. Intensified contact with non-Enggano speakers is likely to continue and spread throughout the island, to the detriment of Enggano.Our current AHRC project (AH/S011064/1) has four main aims: we are documenting and preserving the language by creating a dataset of transcribed, translated, and analyzed audio and video recordings; we are examining the vocabulary of contemporary Enggano to explore the relation of Enggano to other languages of the region; we are reporting on our research by writing papers and articles, and we are working on a reference grammar of Enggano; and we are working with the community and with local educators to preserve the language by providing textbooks that will enable the teaching of Enggano in local schools. In the course of our research, two areas have emerged in which additional work is needed. The first involves in-depth research on Enggano wordforms, combining contemporary fieldwork with the analysis of historical datasets and wordlists. There is a good deal of historical material on Enggano, from vocabulary recorded by visitors to Enggano Island in the 19th and 20th centuries, to dictionaries and short grammars written by linguists in the 20th and 21st centuries, in addition to our own research on the contemporary language. Our project will create a large electronic database of Enggano wordforms, drawing on historical work on Enggano as well as our own fieldwork. We will select a subset of Enggano wordforms for intensive study of their history, their relation to the corresponding forms in other languages of the region, and the history of the form for words borrowed from other languages. We will make our database publicly available on our project website, and we will deposit it in a standard linguistic repository at the end of the project, so that it will remain perpetually available for research use. Our work will provide a window on the development of Enggano vocabulary since the mid-19th century, and will help to answer questions about the pre-history of Austronesian migration and the structure of the Austronesian language familyThe second need is to support the Enggano community in their current work on cultural and language reclamation/maintenance/revitalization. We propose to extract two products from our Enggano lexical database. First, we will produce a learner's Enggano-Indonesian-English dictionary in both hard copy and electronic form, coordinated with the Enggano textbooks that we are producing in our current project. The dictionary will be illustrated with photographs and drawings of local plants, animals, and culturally significant objects. Second, we will produce a mobile phone-based Enggano-Indonesian-English dictionary app for use by the entire community, also illustrated with photographs and drawings.Our work will stand as a model for the combination of linguistic fieldwork on a threatened language with historical linguistic work incorporating older databases and wordlists. It will benefit the Enggano community, who will gain a window on the history of their language which would otherwise have been closed to them, and will serve as an exemplar for similar efforts for other communities of speakers of endangered languages.

恩加诺语（Enggano）是印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛南部沿海的恩加诺岛上的一种语言，约有1500人使用。恩加诺被列为“受威胁”：只有老一代人完全有能力和流利的发言。许多孩子会说印尼语，很少或根本不会说恩加诺语。与不讲恩加诺语的人加强接触的情况可能会继续下去，并蔓延到全岛，对恩加诺人不利。（AH/S 011064/1）有四个主要目标：我们通过创建一个转录，翻译和分析音频和视频记录的数据集来记录和保存语言;我们正在研究当代恩加诺的词汇，以探索恩加诺与该地区其他语言的关系;我们通过撰写论文和文章来报告我们的研究，我们正在研究Enggano的参考语法;我们正在与社区和当地教育工作者合作，通过提供教科书，使当地学校能够教授恩加诺语，来保护这种语言。在我们的研究过程中，出现了两个需要进一步工作的领域。第一个涉及对Enggano构词法的深入研究，将当代实地调查与历史数据集和词汇表的分析相结合。恩加诺岛上有大量的历史资料，从19世纪和20世纪到恩加诺岛的游客记录的词汇，到20世纪和21世纪语言学家编写的词典和简短的语法，以及我们自己对当代语言的研究。我们的项目将创建一个大型的恩加诺字形电子数据库，借鉴恩加诺的历史工作以及我们自己的实地考察。我们将选择一个恩加诺构词法的子集，深入研究它们的历史，它们与该地区其他语言中相应形式的关系，以及从其他语言借来的词的形式的历史。我们将在我们的项目网站上公开我们的数据库，我们将在项目结束时将其存款在一个标准的语言库中，以便它将永远可供研究使用。我们的工作将提供一个窗口的发展恩加诺词汇自19世纪中期世纪以来，并将有助于回答有关的史前南岛移民和南岛语系的结构的问题第二个需要是支持恩加诺社区在他们目前的文化和语言的开垦/维护/振兴工作。我们建议从我们的Enggano词汇数据库中提取两个产品。首先，我们将以硬拷贝和电子形式制作一本学习者的英加诺-印度尼西亚-英语词典，与我们目前正在制作的英加诺教科书相协调。词典将配以当地植物、动物和具有文化意义的物品的照片和图画。第二，我们将制作一个移动的手机版英印尼语英语词典应用程序，供整个社区使用，并配有照片和图画。我们的工作将成为一个模式，将对受威胁语言的语言学田野工作与历史语言学工作结合起来，将旧的数据库和单词表。这将使恩加诺社区受益，他们将获得一个了解他们的语言历史的窗口，否则他们将被关闭，并将成为其他濒危语言使用者社区类似努力的典范。