Small stones can break big canoes: Securing records of the world's indigenous languages

世界土著语言的脆弱记录正面临丢失的危险。这个项目的目标是发展更好的研究方法，不仅使学术界受益，而且使公众受益，并用于培训新的研究人员和社区成员创造更好的记录。在澳大利亚和太平洋地区合作建立工具，这将导致更好的研究实践，它将增加对已经完成的研究的了解，并将针对未来的重点领域。建模新的实地工作方法，建立可重用的数据集，以及策划语言记录的长期收藏都将是这个项目的一部分，同时也将为语言学和更广泛的社区的类似工作提供支持。

Fragile records of the world’s Indigenous languages are at risk of being lost. Better research methods that can benefit not only academics but also the general public aim to be developed in this project and used to train new researchers and community members in creating better records. Collaborating across Australia and the Pacific in building tools that will result in better research practices, it will increase knowledge of what research has been done, and will target areas for future focus. Modelling new fieldwork methods, building reusable datasets, and curating long-term collections of language records will all be part of this project, as will outreach to support similar work both in linguistics and in the broader community.