Documentation of the Vlashki/Zheyanski Language ('RUO')

瓦拉什基/哲扬斯基语是一种严重濒危的巴尔干罗曼语，在克罗地亚伊斯特里亚半岛的六个山村中使用。南部村庄的说话者称他们的语言为Vlashki，而更靠北的村庄的人称其为哲扬斯基。在弗拉什基/哲扬斯基似乎再过不到几十年就会失去大部分流利的说话者的时候，该项目试图通过创建一个带注释的数字语言语料库、双向三语词典(弗拉什基/哲扬斯基、克罗地亚语和英语)，以及对该语言的句法的描述，以及对影响其目前濒危的宏观和微观社会语言学力量的研究，来实现对该语言的全面记录。所设想的语料库值得注意的是，它不仅包括来自克罗地亚家乡的音频和视频数据，而且还包括来自克罗地亚以外最大的讲弗拉什基/切扬斯基语的社区的音频和视频数据，以及来自纽约市的数据，以及20世纪20年代和30年代的数据。因此，它将提供从20世纪20年代和30年代到今天的语言变异的洞察力，以及两个本土社区和一个散居社区的差异。将实现对这种严重濒危的语言的记录，同时教育这种语言的使用者了解这种语言的价值和对其记录的迫切需求。项目材料--词典、精选的音频和视频材料、句法和社会语言学研究、20世纪20年代和30年代的完整翻译书面文本--将向社区成员开放。在某些情况下，将通过现有的语言网站(www.vlaski-zejanski.com)提供。该项目以社区为中心的导向建立在社区成员正在进行的工作的基础上，并加强了这些工作。

Vlashki/Zheyanski, a severely endangered Balkan Romance language, is spoken in six mountain villages in the Istrian peninsula in Croatia. Speakers in the southern villages call their language Vlashki, while those in a village further north call it Zheyanski. At a point when Vlashki/Zheyanski appears to be no more than a few decades away from losing most of its fluent speakers, this project seeks to achieve a comprehensive documentation of the language by creating an annotated digital linguistic corpus of audio and video recordings and older written texts and a bidirectional trilingual dictionary (Vlashki/Zheyanski, Croatian, and English), as well as a description of the syntax of the language, and a study of the macro- and micro-sociolinguistic forces that have affected its current endangerment. The envisioned corpus is noteworthy for including audio and video data not only from the home villages in Croatia, but also from the largest community of Vlashki/Zheyanski speakers outside Croatia, that in New York City, as well as data from the 1920s and 1930s. Hence, it will provide insight into variation in the language, from the 1920s and 1930s until today, and in two homeland communities and one diaspora community.Documentation of this severely endangered language will be achieved while simultaneously educating speakers of the language as to the value of the language and the pressing need for its documentation. Project materials -- the dictionary, a selection of audio and video materials, the syntactic and sociolinguistic studies, the complete translated written texts from the 1920s and 1930s -- will be accessible to community members. In some cases, availability will be achieved via the existing language website (www.vlaski-zejanski.com). The community-centered orientation of the project builds on and reinforces ongoing work with community members.