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有丢失的危险。更好的研究方法，不仅可以造福于学术界，也可以造福于普通公众，其目的是在这个项目中开发更好的研究方法，并用于培训新的研究人员和社区成员创造更好的记录。通过在澳大利亚和太平洋地区合作建立将导致更好的研究实践的工具，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。建立新的实地工作方法模型、建立可重复使用的数据集、管理语言记录的长期收集都将是该项目的一部分，此外还将开展外联活动，以支持语言学和更广泛社区的类似工作。

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.