Mooretown Rancheria Northwestern Maidu Language Project [ISO 639 mjd]

北加州的康考-迈杜印第安人现在主要居住在贝里溪、企业河、摩尔镇牧场和邻近的社区。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，朱莉·麦金托什（Julie McIntosh）和她的团队将记录几乎灭绝的西北麦都语（也被称为Konkow或Concow Maidu）。据信，目前能流利使用该语言的人不超过4人，因此编写文档的工作非常紧迫。虽然其他的麦段语，特别是东北麦都语（山地）已经受到了学术的关注，但西北麦都语迄今为止只是有限的研究对象，而且在过去的四十年里几乎没有。项目将对剩余发言者的发言进行录像和录音；转录选定的录音；从早期的来源和现在的使用者中创建一个词汇数据库，并创建一个与该语言有关的所有现存书面和电子材料的清单。所有语言文件材料将以各种纸张、模拟和数字格式编写，以便最大限度地向当地土著社区和研究人员提供。在过去的几十年里，数以百计的语言消失了，我们从未如此清楚地看到，每一种人类语言都代表着一种独特的智力成就，任何语言的消失都是知识的损失，其影响远远超出了当地社区。对康考麦都语的记录将为麦都社区和语言学家的综合研究活动奠定基础。这些文件编制的第一步将为创造用于语言复兴的各种资源铺平道路，包括教学材料和语法。

The Concow-Maidu Indians of northern California now live primarily on the Berry Creek, Enterprise, Mooretown rancherias, and neighboring communities. With support from the National Science Foundation, Julie McIntosh (Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California) and her team will document the nearly extinct Northwestern Maidu language (also called Konkow or Concow Maidu). It is now believed to have no more than four fluent speakers, and thus the urgency of the documentation effort is great. Although other Maiduan languages, particularly Northeastern (Mountain) Maidu, have received scholarly attention, Northwestern Maidu has so far been the subject of only limited study, and virtually none within the past forty years. The project will make video and audio recording of the speech of the remaining speakers; transcribe selected recordings; create a lexical database from both earlier sources and current speakers, and create an inventory of all extant written and electronic materials relating to the language. All language documentation materials will be prepared in a variety of paper, analog, and digital formats to make them maximally available both to the local indigenous communities and to researchers. With the silencing of hundreds of languages in the past decades, it has never been clearer that every human language represents a unique intellectual achievement, and that the loss of any language is a loss of knowledge that has repercussions far beyond the local community. The documentation of the Concow Maidu language will set the foundation for integrated research activities for the Maidu community, as well as for linguists. These first steps in documentation will prepare the way for the creation of a variety of resources to be used in language revitalization, both pedagogical materials and a grammar.