Chiwere (ISO 639-3: iow) Audio Archive Project (CAAP)

chiare是一种极度濒危的美洲土著语言，属于Siouan族。虽然传教士、人类学家和语言学家在过去的150年里记录了关于中国的宝贵信息，但中国缺乏必要的文献，也没有能说一口流利汉语的人来贡献新的数据。“奇瓦雷语音频档案项目”（CAAP）将为语言学家、印第安社区和普通公众提供最后一批流利说奇瓦雷语的人所讲述的口头文学的录音和文本。由于该系列是在20世纪60年代至90年代使用易碎的盒式磁带和卷对卷制作的，因此该项目将把这些模拟录音转换为数字文件。然后，项目人员将在中国转录这些录音，将其翻译成英文，并用语言、历史和文化信息对其进行注释。最后，录音和文本将在网上提供，并分发给档案馆和利益相关者部落。奇瓦语是俄克拉荷马州、堪萨斯州和内布拉斯加州三个联邦承认的印第安部落的传统语言。CAAP通过提供资源来支持这些社区的语言复兴目标，从而使这些社区受益。虽然没有人能说一口流利的汉语，但仍有一些人从亲戚那里学会了说汉语，并听懂了汉语，这种语言今天仍在某些场合使用。许多部落成员希望从长辈的声音中学习更多的传统语言，但很少有基于音频的教学材料来满足这一需求。CAAP将通过向土著社区提供传统故事、口述历史和歌曲的录音和文本来纠正这种情况。CAAP还将聘请部落成员担任项目助理，并培训他们成为所在社区的语言管理员。除了使部落成员受益外，CAAP还使语言学家受益。与许多苏族语言相比，人们对奇瓦语的理解程度更低，尤其是密西西比河谷语系的其他苏族语言。CAAP有助于进一步研究汉语语法和比较汉语主题，并将引起语言学家的广泛兴趣。总的来说，CAAP将通过保存和提供具有不可替代的语言和文化意义的中国录音和文本来满足语言学家、部落利益相关者和公众的需求。

Chiwere is a critically endangered Native American language belonging to the Siouan family. While missionaries, anthropologists, and linguists have recorded valuable information about Chiwere over the past 150 years, Chiwere lacks essential documentation, and no fluent speakers remain to contribute new data. The Chiwere Audio Archive Project (CAAP) will give linguists, Indian communities, and the general public access to audio recordings and texts from a collection of Chiwere oral literature told by the last fluent speakers. Since the collection was made during the 1960s-1990s using fragile cassette tapes and reel-to-reels, the project will convert these analogue recordings to digital files. Project personnel will then transcribe the recordings in Chiwere, translate them into English, and annotate them with linguistic, historical, and cultural information. Finally, the recordings and texts will be made available online and distributed to archives and stakeholder tribes.Chiwere is a heritage language for three federally recognized Indian tribes in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. CAAP benefits these communities by providing resources to support their language revitalization goals. While no fluent speakers remain, a few individuals learned to speak and understand Chiwere from their relatives, and the language is still used in certain settings today. Many tribal members want to learn more of their traditional language from the voices of their elders, but there are few audio-based pedagogical materials to meet this need. CAAP will remedy this situation by giving Native communities access to recordings and texts of traditional stories, oral histories, and songs. CAAP will also employ tribal members as project assistants and train them to become language curators in their communities. In addition to benefiting tribal members, CAAP also benefits linguists. Chiwere is less understood than many Siouan languages, especially others in the Mississippi Valley subfamily. CAAP facilitates further research on Chiwere grammar and comparative Siouan topics and will be of broad interest to linguists. Overall, CAAP will meet the needs of linguists, tribal stakeholders, and the general public by preserving and making available Chiwere recordings and texts with irreplaceable linguistic and cultural significance.