Documenting and Archiving Deg Xinag (ING), Tlingit (TLI), and Other Northern Languages

阿拉斯加最濒危的两种语言是特林吉特和德格·辛格·阿萨巴斯坎语。第一个目前有大约150名会说这种语言的人从出生就学会了这门语言，另一个目前只有9人。Richard Dauenhauer博士和Alice Taff博士将进行三个项目，以满足这两个社区的不同需求，并在此过程中分享技术和见解。德格·辛格项目将准备出版一个现有的4.5小时的德格·辛格故事和个人历史语料库，这些语料库是从2002-2003年的七位演讲者那里录制下来的。尽管最近有这样的年份，但自那以后，有五位演讲者去世了。翻译这些故事并使其可用的时间所剩无几。这项任务将在年轻的社区成员(许多人学习他们的传统语言)的帮助下进行，他们将与讲母语的年长人士一起工作。对于Tlingit来说，一个记录自发对话的试点项目将让年轻的成年Tlingit学习者为流利的长辈进行对话录制视频，然后与长辈一起转录和翻译音频。预计将有一个长达两个小时的双语视频，并附有文字。第三个项目也是为Tlingit进行的，将利用一位80岁的演讲者的知识，他是唯一一个在世的人，知道过去40年的Tlingit录音集中有什么。所有上述材料将在阿拉斯加土著语言中心和安维克的安维克博物馆存档。这项工作只能在演讲者保持良好健康的情况下现在进行。年轻一代正在努力掌握他们传统语言的能力，制作的材料将极大地提高他们自己成为流利演讲者的能力。该项目将通过教育语言社区成员了解语言记录的最佳做法，使两代人参与语言记录和振兴工作。当地大学将以新的方式与语言社区接触，对双方都有利。这些努力将保持丰富的文化和语言数据。

Two of Alaska's most highly endangered languages are Tlingit and Deg Xinag Athabascan. The first currently has about 150 speakers who learned the language from birth, and the other currently has just nine. Dr. Richard Dauenhauer and Dr. Alice Taff will undertake three projects addressing the different needs of these two communities, sharing techniques and insights along the way. The Deg Xinag project will prepare for publication an existing 4.5-hour corpus of Deg Xinag stories and personal histories, recorded from seven speakers in 2002-3. Despite this recent vintage, five of the speakers have since passed on. There is very little time remaining to translate these stories and make them available. This task will be performed with the help of younger community members (many learning their heritage language), who will work with elder native speakers. For Tlingit, a pilot project to document spontaneous conversation will engage young adult Tlingit learners to make video recordings of fluent elders holding conversations, then work with the elders to transcribe and translate the audio. A two-hour-long bilingual video, with accompanying text, is expected. The third project, also for Tlingit, will tap the knowledge of an 80-year old speaker, who is the only living person who knows what is in a collection of Tlingit audio recordings from the past 40 years. All of the above materials will be archived at the Alaska Native Language Center and also the Anvik Museum, Anvik, AK..This work can only be undertaken now, while the speakers remain in good health. The younger generations are trying to gain competence in their heritage languages, and the materials produced will greatly increase their ability to become fluent speakers themselves. The project will engage two generations in language documentation and revitalization by educating language community members in best practices for language documentation. The local university will be engaged with the language community in new ways, to the benefit of both. A wealth of cultural and linguistic data will be maintained by these efforts.