Lexicon, Linguistic Structure, and Verbal Arts in Chadic Languages of Northeastern Nigeria (DBP, KAI, NBH)

尼日利亚是世界上语言和文化最复杂的地区之一，尽管尼日利亚有近两个世纪的语言和文化记录，但那里的许多民族在他们的地方之外几乎不为人所知。作为记录濒危语言项目的一部分，该项目将重点关注尼日利亚约贝州乍得语系的六种语言：巴德语、恩吉津姆语、博莱语、卡雷卡雷语、恩加莫语和杜瓦伊语。该项目将重点关注最后三种，它们是记录最少、最濒危的。两种语言和相关的文化，豪萨语和较小程度的卡努里语，大规模地主导着尼日利亚北部的语言和文化场景。Yobe州立大学被夹在这些巨头之间。传统文化正在迅速让位，土著语言虽然没有完全消亡，但却充满了豪萨语和卡努里语的外来词和表达，同时失去了许多传统词汇和“口头艺术”，更广泛地说，包括谚语、文字游戏、故事、歌曲和口头传统。该项目将制作这些语言和相关语言艺术的视频、音频和印刷（包括纸张和网络）文档。传统音乐表演的视频和音频记录将是该项目的重点。豪萨音乐现在在尼日利亚北部占主导地位，表演传统音乐的背景正在减少。除了传统歌曲在文化上的重要性外，该地区对其文本及其配乐方式的研究还完全没有进行过，对这些文本的分析将对民间韵律的研究做出重大贡献。除了向全世界学术界提供这种材料外，该项目还将制作录音带和印刷歌曲文本，以便在当地市场分发。

Nigeria encompasses one of the linguistically and culturally most complex areas in the world, and despite nearly two centuries of documenting language and culture in Nigeria, many of the peoples there remain virtually unknown beyond their localities. This project, as part of the Documenting Endangered Languages program will focus on peoples speaking six languages of the Chadic family in Yobe State, Nigeria: Bade, Ngizim, Bole, Karekare, Ngamo, and Duwai. The project will focus on the last three, which are the least documented and the most endangered. Two languages and associated cultures, Hausa and to a lesser extent Kanuri, massively dominate the language and culture scene of northern Nigeria. Yobe State is sandwiched between these juggernauts. The traditional cultures are rapidly giving way and the indigenous languages, though not exactly dying, are becoming loaded with Hausa and Kanuri loanwords and expressions while losing much traditional vocabulary and "verbal arts" more broadly speaking, including proverbs, word play, tales, songs, and oral traditions. This project will produce video, audio, and print (both paper and web-based) documentation of these languages and associated verbal arts. Video and audio recording of performance of traditional music will be a focus of the project. Hausa music is now dominating all of northern Nigeria, and contexts for performing traditional music are diminishing. Aside from the cultural importance of traditional songs, the texts and the way they are set to music is completely unstudied for this region, and analysis of these text will be a major contribution to the study of folk metrics. In addition to making this material available to the world-wide scholarly community, the project will produce audio cassettes and printed song texts for distribution in local markets.