Searchable Archive of Annotated Lamkang Texts [ISO 639 lmk]

曼尼普尔拉姆康语主要在印度曼尼普尔邦的东南部地区使用，人口不超过5000人，它一直受到主要国家语言梅塞语的压力。它是藏缅族北库奇-钦分支的一员。在国家科学基金会的支持下，Shobhana Chelliah将对Lamkang进行为期两年的研究，以创建一个包含25小时自然发生的语音事件的可搜索档案，这些事件代表了各种Lamkang演讲者的互动。Chelliah博士将与曼尼普尔语语言学家Harimohon Thounaojam博士合作，在母语人士的帮助下收集、转录、翻译和分析拉姆康语文本。曼尼普尔邦发表的大多数语法描述都不包括音频或视频记录。这个项目将展示数字音频和视频记录的重要性和最佳实践方法。该项目还将说明一个可行的方法，使用自然发生的话语来指导语法分析。在此过程中，它将挑战目前曼尼普尔语的语言语法主要基于基于Meithei结构的问卷调查的范式。由此产生的材料将包括一个专门用于存档和注释兰康文本的网站；伴随的结构和文化注释；兰康词典；用母语人士的无障碍文字打印相应的文本。Lamkang档案资料将记录Lamkang和Meithei之间强烈语言接触的影响，并允许对接触引起的语言变化理论进行比较。从美泰语大量借用词汇已经改变了兰康语的词汇和音系，从而模糊了它与其他库奇语的关系。档案数据对于理解藏缅语语篇结构以及语法与语篇和语用学的相互作用也至关重要。档案资料将为教学和文化材料的准备提供丰富的信息，这样母语人士就可以在为年轻人开设的语言课程中使用这些材料。

Manipuri Lamkang, spoken primarily in the southeastern region of Manipur State, India by no more than 5,000 people, is under constant pressure from the dominant state language, Meithei. It is a member of the Northern Kuki-Chin branch of the Tibeto-Burman family. Using National Science Foundation support, Shobhana Chelliah will conduct a two year study of Lamkang to create a searchable archive of 25 hours of naturally occurring speech events, representative of a variety of Lamkang speaker interactions. Dr. Chelliah will work along with Manipuri linguist Dr. Harimohon Thounaojam to collect, transcribe, translate, and analyze Lamkang texts with the help of native speakers. Most grammatical descriptions published in Manipur do not include audio or video recordings. This project will demonstrate the importance and best practice methods of digital audio and video recording. The project will also illustrate a feasible methodology for the use of naturally occurring discourse to guide grammatical analysis. In doing so, it will contest the current paradigm of basing linguistic grammars of Manipuri languages primarily on questionnaires based on Meithei structure. Resulting materials will include a website dedicated to archived and annotated Lamkang texts; accompanying structural and cultural notes; a Lamkang lexicon; and print equivalents of texts in native speaker's accessible scripts. The Lamkang archive data will document the effects of intense language contact between Lamkang and Meithei and allow a comparison among theories of contact-induced language change. Massive lexical borrowing from Meithei is already changing Lamkang's lexicon and phonology thereby obscuring its relationship to other Kuki languages. Archive data will also be vital for understanding Tibeto-Burman discourse structure and the interaction of syntax with discourse and pragmatics. Archive data will provide a wealth of information for the preparation of pedagogical and cultural materials so that native speakers can use these materials in language programs for the younger speakers.