Lenape Language Online Dictionary Project

詹姆斯·里门特和布鲁斯·皮尔逊帮助俄克拉何马州巴特尔斯维尔的特拉华印第安人部落建立了一个特拉华印第安语词汇数据库。Lenape是一种东部阿尔冈昆语，历史上在纽约州东南部、新泽西州全境、宾夕法尼亚州东部和特拉华州北部使用。美国东部的许多地名都源于这种语言，例如曼哈顿。从这个意义上说，Lenape语言是Lenape人的遗产的一部分，也是更广泛的美国英语社区的一部分。Lenape语言数据库项目的工作始于1997年，并得到了国家科学基金会的资助。该数据库目前的形式包括15460个单字词条和声音文件、22个经过语言分析的叙述和4首赞美诗。目前的项目，Lenape语言在线词典项目，将添加从17世纪至19世纪收集的Lenape单词列表中的数据。这一补充将允许评论Lenape的历史词汇发展。将开发搜索参数的计算复杂性，以便将语法信息链接到单词，以向词条提供语义和语法上下文。该项目的顾问包括特拉华州部落成员、德语教授格兰特·勒诺博士，以及勒纳普早期材料的作者和专家雷蒙德·怀里特努尔。由此产生的产品将在Lenape社区和他们的传统语言之间建立联系。

James Rementer and Bruce Pearson helped the Delaware Tribe of Indians of Bartlesville, Oklahoma create a lexical database of the Lenape or Delaware Indian language. Lenape is an eastern Algonquian language historically spoken in southeastern New York State, all of New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and the northern part of the State of Delaware. Many place names in the eastern United States originate from this language, e.g. Manhattan. In this sense, the Lenape language is part of the heritage of the Lenape people and also the wider US English-speaking community. Work on the Lenape Language Database Project began in 1997 and was supported by funding from the National Science Foundation. The database in its current form includes 15,460 single-word entries with sound files, 22 linguistically analyzed narratives and 4 hymns. The current project, Lenape Language Online Dictionary Project, will add data from lists of Lenape words collected between the 1600s and 1800s. This addition will allow for commentary on Lenape historical lexical development. The computational sophistication of the search parameters will be developed so that grammatical information will be linked to words to provide semantic and grammatical context to the lexical entries. Consultants on the project include Delaware tribal member and professor of German, Dr. Grant Leneaux and author and expert on early materials on the Lenape, Raymond Whritenour. The resulting products will create a link betwtee the Lenape community and their heritage language.