Yuma Dictionary and Texts

该项目的目的是继续记录加利福尼亚州温特海文的尤马堡印第安人保留地所说的奎赞印第安人所说的尤马语。其近期目标是：(1)编写一部尤马语词典；(2)翻译和分析由A.M.Halpern在20世纪70年代收集的大量尤马语文本。一部尤马语词典将填补尤曼语文献中的一个长期空白，并为正在进行的尤曼语和霍坎语比较研究以及研究尤马语音韵学和词汇学中的特定问题提供数据。由于它将包括在20世纪30年代、70年代和21世纪之交收集的数据，它将是关于语言变化的丰富数据来源。大量的分析文本不仅将作为研究YumasynTax和话语的数据库，而且还将保存一大批否则将在一代人内丢失的民族志和语言数据。这两卷书都将在类型学和区域语言学研究以及人类学和人种学研究中有用。此外，一本词典和大量文本将成为奎赞学校的教师和对保持和加强语言技能和文化知识感兴趣的部落成员的宝贵资源。当这种语言不再被使用时，这些卷将作为奎赞语言、文学和文化遗产的记录保留下来。

The purpose of this project is to continue the documentation of Yuma, the language of theQuechan Indians, spoken on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation in Winterhaven, California. Itsimmediate goals are (i) to compile a dictionary of Yuma, and (ii) to translate and analyze a largebody of Yuma texts collected by A.M. Halpern in the 1970s.A dictionary of Yuma will fill a longstanding gap in the Yuman linguistic literature andprovide data for ongoing comparative Yuman and Hokan research as well as for research intospecific problems in Yuma phonology and morphology. As it will include data collected in the1930s, the 1970s, and at the turn of the 21st century, it will be a rich source of data on languagechange. A volume of analyzed texts will not only serve as a database for the study of Yumasyntax and discourse but also preserve a body of ethnographic and linguistic data that wouldotherwise be lost within a generation. Both volumes will be useful in typological and areallinguistic studies and in anthropological and ethnographic research.Beyond academia, a dictionary and volume of texts will be invaluable resources forteachers in Quechan schools and for tribe members interested in maintaining and strengtheninglanguage skills and cultural knowledge. When the language is no longer spoken, these volumeswill remain as a record of Quechan linguistic, literary, and cultural heritage.