Documentation of Kumeyaay/Kumiai Spoken in Baja, Mexico [ISO 639 dih]

Kumeyaay是一种濒临灭绝的尤曼语族语言，在加利福尼亚下加利福尼亚州使用。尽管在美国使用的两种北部的库梅亚语方言之前已经被描述过，但是关于墨西哥方言的系统的语言学田野调查或文献研究相对较少。在美国国家科学基金会的资助下，玛格丽特·菲尔德博士（圣地亚哥州立大学）和他的同事们将根据自然发生的谈话的音频和视频数据，包括对话、口述历史、叙述、对传统习俗的描述以及对当地方言差异的解释，创建一个参考语法和词汇。使用话语数据可以让我们更多地了解语言和话语结构在自然语境中是如何运作的，而不是通过孤立句子的引出来学习信息。它还将提供自发互动的例子，以创造适合文化的语言材料。该项目将为巴哈方言提供参考语法和西班牙语-英语-库梅亚语词典，以及西班牙语-库梅亚语教学材料。所有收集到的数字数据都将被保存在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的拉丁美洲土著语言档案馆，供学者和部落社区访问，以便在进一步的研究和语言复兴工作中使用。该项目还将涉及巴哈库梅耶族社区的密切合作，通过举办多个语言讲习班，提高人们对该语言濒危状况的认识，并提出振兴该语言的方法。说巴哈古梅亚语的人数远远超过说美国古梅亚语的人，届时他们将能够通过浸入式教学法教授这门语言，从而使跨美墨边境的语言复兴工作能够以目标语言本身进行。

Kumeyaay is a moribund language of the Yuman language family, spoken in Baja, California. Although two Northern dialects of Kumeyaay spoken in the U.S. have previously been described, relatively little systematic linguistic fieldwork or documentation has been done on the Mexican dialect. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Margaret Field (San Diego State University) and colleagues will create a reference grammar and lexicon based on transcripts of audio and video data of naturally-occurring talk, including conversation, oral histories, narratives, descriptions of traditional practices, and explanations concerning local dialect differences. Using discourse data allows us to learn more about how the language and discourse structure works in natural contexts, as opposed to information learned through elicitation of isolated sentences. It will also provide examples of spontaneous interaction to create culturally-appropriate language materials.This project will result in a reference grammar and Spanish-English-Kumeyaay dictionary for the Baja dialect as well as Spanish-Kumeyaay pedagogical materials. All of the digital data collected will be archived at UT Austin's Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America for academics and tribal communities to access for use in further research and language revitalization efforts as well. This project will also involve the close collaboration of Baja Kumeyaay community through multiple language workshops designed to heighten awareness of the endangered status of the language and methods for its revitalization. Baja Kumeyaay speakers, who greatly outnumber U.S. Kumeyaay speakers, will then be able to teach the language via immersion methodologies, allowing language revitalization efforts across the U.S.-Mexico border to progress in the target language itself.