Traditional Jambi Malay

由Peter科尔博士、Gabriella Hermon博士和Uri Tadmor博士组成的研究小组，在语言学研究生Yanti Jotika女士的协助下，将对传统詹比马来语进行语言学实地考察，这是印度尼西亚苏门答腊东南部詹比省的一种濒危马来语。马来-印尼语是一种主要的世界语言，也许是世界上第四大最广泛使用的语言。然而，几乎没有关于马来语方言和马来-印度尼西亚方言的全面科学描述。马来-印尼语的语法以及大多数关于该语言的理论著作几乎完全建立在准人工标准语言的基础上。大多数以马来语为母语的人生活在苏门答腊，比马来西亚多得多，但甚至没有一个完整的语法描述苏门答腊马来语方言。传统的詹比马来语是一个理想的选择，因为詹比被广泛认为是Melayu（马来语-印度尼西亚语中的“马来”）的原始所在地，因此是理解数百种马来方言的复杂系统的关键。语言学实地工作将在两个村庄Mudung Laut和丹戎Raden进行，在那里，传统的詹比马来语仍然表现出许多在詹比市使用的城市方言中消失的特征。该项目的成果将包括对该语言的一般性描述、以与各种类型的数字录音相联系的文本计算机化数据库的形式对该语言进行记录，以及基于这些数据的理论研究。还将制作一个自动生成的詹比马来语-英语-印度尼西亚语词汇表，作为项目第二阶段詹比马来语词典的基础。最后，调查人员将准备两本当地出版的书籍，一本是民间故事，另一本是自传体素描。该项目的更广泛影响首先包括对一种濒危语言的记录和描述（这是世界各地语言学的重要优先事项），以及将该语言的使用者培训为实地语言学家。该项目还将制作文化材料，供讲该语言的人使用。该项目涉及美国科学家和国外科学机构之间的合作：马克斯·普朗克进化人类学研究所雅加达野外站主任是该项目的共同参与者。该项目还在培训美国研究生方面发挥作用，使他们了解濒危语言工作的重要性，并为保护边缘化社区的语言和文化遗产作出贡献。同样重要的是该项目在培养国际研究生方面的作用。

A research team consisting of Dr. Peter Cole, Dr. Gabriella Hermon, and Dr. Uri Tadmor, assisted by Ms. Yanti Jotika, a graduate student in linguistics, will conduct linguistic fieldwork on Traditional Jambi Malay, an endangered Malay variety spoken in Jambi Province in southeast Sumatra, Indonesia. Malay-Indonesian is a major world language, perhaps the fourth most widely spoken language in the world. Yet there are almost no thorough scientific descriptions of vernacular Malayic languages and Malay-Indonesian dialects. Grammars of Malay-Indonesian as well as most theoretical works on the language are almost entirely based on the quasi-artificial standard language. Most native speakers of Malay live in Sumatra, many more than in Malaysia, yet there is not even one thorough grammatical description of a Sumatran Malay dialect. Traditional Jambi Malay is an ideal choice because Jambi is widely considered to be original locus of Melayu (the Malay-Indonesian term for 'Malay'), and is thus the key to understanding the complex diasystem of hundreds of Malay dialects. The linguistic field work will be carried out in two villages, Mudung Laut and Tanjung Raden, where Traditional Jambi Malay still exhibits many features lost in the koineized urban variety spoken in Jambi City. The results of the project will include a general description of the language, documentation of the language in the form of a computerized database of texts linked to digital recordings in a variety of genres, and theoretically oriented studies based on the data. An automatically generated Jambi Malay-English-Indonesian glossary will also be produced, which will serve as the basis for a Jambi Malay dictionary in the second stage of the project. Finally, the investigators will prepare two locally published volumes, one of folk stories and the other autobiographical sketches.Broader impacts of the project include first and foremost the documentation and description of an endangered language (an important priority for linguistics around the world), as well as the training of a speaker of that language as a field linguist. The project will also create cultural materials for use by the speakers of the language. The project involves cooperation between U.S. scientists and scientific institutions abroad: The director of the Jakarta Field Station of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is a co-PI on the project. The project also plays a role in the training of American graduate students with regard to the importance of work on endangered languages and contributing to the preservation of the linguistic and cultural heritage of a marginalized community. Equally important is the role of the project in training international graduate students.