Collaborative Research: Chamorro (SIL code: CHA)

查莫罗语是一种南岛语族语言，在美国未合并的关岛和美国联邦北方马里亚纳群岛有45，000人使用。虽然今天它是一种活的语言，但它显然是濒危的。这也是其历史上的一个关键时刻，改进文件和提高社区对语言濒危的认识可能会对语言的生存产生真实的影响。在国家科学基金会的支持下，一名语言学家和一名查莫罗教育工作者将与社区成员合作，从根本上更新查莫罗语的文献资料，语言学家Sandra Chung博士将为讲查莫罗语的人、语言学家和语言学习者编写一份全面的查莫罗语参考语法。 教育家伊丽莎白·雷切贝博士将监督一个社区成员工作组，该工作组将修订、更正和扩充1975年查莫罗-英语词典。将对讲流利的查莫罗语的人的口述历史进行录像，记录查莫罗人相互关联的话语，并提供丰富的文化信息。由此产生的材料将详细记录社区和语言学家可以使用的查莫罗语。这些教材将作为下一代查莫罗双语教材的基础，并有助于提高能流利使用本族语言和识字的查莫罗人的比例。 在最好的情况下，它们将对语言的生存产生积极的影响。

Chamorro is an Austronesian language spoken by 45,000 people in the unincorporated U.S. territory of Guam and the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Though a living language today, it is clearly endangered. It is also at a critical moment in its history, when improved documentation and heightened community awareness of language endangerment could make a real difference to its survival. With support from the National Science Foundation, one linguist and one Chamorro educator will work with community members to radically upgrade the documentation of the Chamorro language.Dr. Sandra Chung, a linguist, will write a comprehensive reference grammar of Chamorro intended for Chamorro speakers, linguists, and language learners. Dr. Elizabeth Rechebei, an educator, will oversee a working group of community members who will revise, correct, and expand the 1975 Chamorro-English Dictionary. The oral histories of fluent Chamorro speakers will be videotaped, providing a record of connected Chamorro discourse that is rich in cultural information. The resulting materials will provide a detailed record of the Chamorro language that can be used by the community and by linguists. They will serve as the foundation for the next generation of Chamorro bilingual education materials, and help increase the proportion of Chamorros who are fluent and literate in their own language. In the best case, they will have a positive impact on the language's survival.