An Accessible Linguistic Research Database of the Endangered Jaqaru and Kawki Languages [ISO 639 jqr]

玻利维亚、秘鲁和智利的三种相关语言显示出截然不同的健康水平：艾马拉语的状况相当好，艾马拉语的人口约占玻利维亚人口的三分之一，在其他国家也有相当大的代表性。在秘鲁的图佩、尤尤斯、利马及其周边地区有几千人说加卡鲁语，在利马、万卡约、钦查和卡内特等城市也有大量人说加卡鲁语；加卡鲁语的状况岌岌可危，但并不绝望。考基语在秘鲁的卡丘伊、约约斯、利马及其周边地区只有极少数人说，显然是一种正在消亡的语言。我们唯一能够理解这最后两种语言以及它们与艾马拉的关系的时间就是现在。在国家科学基金会的支持下，M.J.Hardman博士及其同事Howard Beck、Elizabeth Lowe McCoy、Sue Legg和Dimas Bautista Iturrizaga将进行一项为期三年的项目，将Jaqaru和Kawki材料语料库转化为可访问的、存档的语言研究数据库，该语料库由50个实地笔记文本、相应的录音带、450张照片和相关语言数据组成。语文材料将进行数字化、分析、解析、编辑、翻译并输入数据库。还将编制一本语文词典，并以电子方式提供。该项目将向语言学界提供哈德曼在秘鲁进行了50多年的语言实地研究收集的实地笔记。它还建立在2004年至2007年为美国教育部资助的“互联网上的艾马拉”项目所做的工作的基础上。该项目将保存和提供两种高度濒危的安第斯语言的文本、词典和语法，用于语言研究以及遗产的利用和未来的合作。语言材料将从Jaqaru和Kawki翻译成西班牙语和英语。预计秘鲁政府将希望利用这一项目进行更广泛的传播，用于双语教育和语言保护目的。语言材料的广泛范围使其成为如此广泛分发的一个有吸引力的样本。它的进一步使用和阐述将成为其他项目的范本。

Three related languages in Bolivia, Peru and Chile show dramatically different levels of health: Aymara, spoken by about a third the population of Bolivia and sizable representation in the other countries, is in fairly good shape. Jaqaru is spoken by a few thousand people in and around Tupe, Yauyos, Lima, Peru and by large numbers in the cities of Lima, Huancayo, Chincha, and Cañete; its situation is precarious but not desperate. Kawki is spoken only by a very few people in and around Cachuy, Yauyos, Lima, Peru and is clearly a dying language. The only time we will be able to understand these last two languages, and their relationship with Aymara, is the present. With National Science Foundation support, Dr. M.J. Hardman and colleagues Howard Beck, Elizabeth Lowe McCoy, Sue Legg and Dimas Bautista Iturrizaga will conduct a three-year project to transform a corpus of Jaqaru and Kawki materials consisting of 50 field notebooks of texts, corresponding audiotapes, 450 photographs and related linguistic data into an accessible, archived linguistic research database. The linguistic materials will be digitized, analyzed, parsed, edited, translated and entered into a database. A dictionary of the languages will also be created and made available electronically. This project will make the field notes collected by Hardman over 50 years of linguistic field research in Peru available to the linguistic community. It also builds on the work done from 2004-2007 for the "Aymara on the Internet" Project funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The project will preserve and make available the texts, dictionary and grammar of two highly endangered Andean languages for linguistic research and for the use and future collaboration of heritage. The linguistic material will be translated from Jaqaru and Kawki into Spanish and English. It is anticipated that the government of Peru will want to utilize this project for broader dissemination for bilingual education and language preservation purposes. The broad scope of the linguistic material makes it an attractive sample for such widespread distribution. Its further use and elaboration will serve as a model for other projects.