Yuma Language Documentation

在国家科学基金会的支持下，艾米·米勒博士将继续从1998年开始的关于尤马(也称为奎赞)的研究。尤马语是加利福尼亚州温特黑文的尤马堡印第安人保留地所说的一种濒临灭绝的美洲原住民语言。该项目将产生三种类型的语言文件：一本包含约12,000个词条的详细词典；一套以原文出版的关于尤马传统文化的文本，并附有英语翻译和语言分析；以及一份适合在保留学校和成人晚间课堂教授尤马语的教学语法。词典、教材和教学语法将成为学术界和尤马人的永久资源。对于语言学家和人类学家来说，这些材料将提供关于正在迅速消失的语言和文化的数据。对于尤马人来说，这些材料将用于语言振兴工作：语法将服务于初级和中级说话者；文本集将加强那些已经流利的人的语言技能和文化知识；词典将在各级都有用。对于子孙后代来说，这些文件将作为尤马语言和文化遗产的记录。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Amy Miller will continue research begun in 1998 on Yuma (also known as Quechan). Yuma is an endangered Native American language spoken on Fort Yuma Indian Reservation in Winterhaven, California. This project will result in language documentation of three types: a detailed dictionary comprising approximately 12,000 items; a body of texts on Yuma traditional culture published in the original language with English translation and linguistic analysis; and a pedagogical grammar suitable for teaching the Yuma language in reservation schools and in evening adult classes.The dictionary, texts, and pedagogical grammar will serve as permanent resources for both the academic community and the Yuma people. For linguists and anthropologists, these materials will provide data on a rapidly disappearing language and culture. For Yuma people, the materials will be used in language revitalization efforts: The grammar will serve beginning and intermediate speakers; the text collection will strengthen the linguistic skills and cultural knowledge of those already fluent; and the dictionary will be useful at all levels. For future generations, these documents will serve as records of Yuma linguistic and cultural heritage.