Dictionary of Ninam, a Yanomaman Language

该项目的目标是完成并出版一本尼南语词典，这是一种濒临灭绝的亚诺曼语，在巴西罗赖马、委内瑞拉的Mucajaí、乌拉里河上游和帕鲁阿河沿岸只有560人使用。该项目完成了由埃内斯托·米格里亚扎（Ernesto Migliazza）于20世纪60年代开始编写的词典；它通过实地工作来扩展语言及其词汇条目的信息，从而确保先前收集的信息处于危险之中。将准备两种版本：一种是面向学者的技术性版本（提供尼南语、葡萄牙语、西班牙语和英语的查询选项），另一种是面向尼南语社区和当地教育工作者的实用版本（尼南语、葡萄牙语和西班牙语）。这种语言提供了许多科学兴趣。该词典将包含一个语法概要，并关注不同寻常的类型特征，其中Ninam有一些，例如，证据系统，鼻音和谐，连续动词和不同寻常的作格性等。本词典将具有其他拉丁美洲土著语言词典中众所周知的优点，保存了编码在词汇中的濒危知识系统。Ninam词典将为语言学和其他依赖语言相关材料的学科（人类学、历史学、生物学、地理学）提供服务。该词典将使尼南社区受益，解决语言维护工作和学校母语课程对资源材料的需求。该项目为美国和巴西的研究生提供培训。它有利于公众对文化多样性的兴趣，增加文化和语言意义的信息。它有助于语言类型学，语言学理论，并了解亚诺曼语言及其使用者的历史。

The goal of this project is to complete and publish a dictionary of Ninam, an endangered Yanomaman language, spoken by only 560 people along the Mucajaí, upper Uraricaá, and Paragua rivers in Roraima, Brazil and Venezuela. This project completes the dictionary began by Ernesto Migliazza in the 1960s; it secures previously collected information otherwise at risk, with fieldwork to expand the information on the language and its lexical entries. Two versions will be prepared: a more technical one for scholars (with look up options in Ninam, Portuguese, Spanish, and English), and a practical version for the Ninam communities and local educators (Ninam, Portuguese, and Spanish). The language offers much of scientific interest. The dictionary will contain a grammatical sketch, with attention to unusual typological traits, of which Ninam has a number, for example, an evidentiality system, nasal harmony, serial verbs, and unusual ergativity, among others. This dictionary will have the merits well known from other dictionaries of indigenous Latin American languages, preserving endangered knowledge systems encoded in vocabulary. The Ninam dictionary will serve linguistics and other disciplines which depend on language-related material (anthropology, history, biology, geography). The dictionary will benefit Ninam communities, addressing the need for resource materials much needed for language maintenance efforts and native-language curriculum in schools. The project provides training of graduate students in both the US and Brazil. It benefits the general public interested in cultural diversity, increasing information of cultural as well as linguistic significance. It contributes to language typology, linguistic theory, and to understanding the history of the Yanomaman languages and their speakers.