Ioway Otoe-Missouria Dictionary Project

这一奖项将扩展爱荷华州奥托-密苏里语言的文献，这是PI，Jimm GoodTrack在过去40年里所做的，并产生了9000个单词的词典和初级和中级教学材料。该项目将创建一个增强型百科全书词典，详细说明单词的用法。这一资源将以光盘、印刷版和互联网网站的形式提供，以便社区成员和学者都能使用。此外，它将是各部落社区目前正在进行的语言振兴努力的主要资源，因为它将提供关于长老所说语言的信息，以及许多当代人不容易获得或熟悉的文化信息。这些努力意义重大，因为爱荷华州奥托-密苏里亚语的最后两位流利使用者十年前就去世了。

This award will extend the documentation of the Ioway, Otoe-Missouria language that the PI, Jimm Goodtracks, has carried out over the past four decades, and that resulted in a 9000 word lexicon and primary and intermediate level teaching materials. This project will create an enhanced encyclopedic dictionary with detailed illustrations of word usage. This resource will be made available on CDs, in print, and on internet websites so that it can be used by community members and scholars alike. Further, it will be a major resource in language revitalization efforts now being undertaken by individual tribal communities, as it will provide information about the spoken language of the Elders and also much cultural information not readily available or familiar to the present generation. These efforts are of great significance, since the last two fluent speakers of the Ioway, Otoe-Missouria language died ten years ago.