A workshop on issues in Kuki-Chin Linguistics

在缅甸、印度和孟加拉国的边境地区，大约有50种库基-钦语。近年来，对这些语言中一小部分的研究有所加强，这些语言是藏缅语家族的一部分;仍然需要大量的工作来记录其余的语言。对这些语言的研究正处于一个独特的时刻。该地区的政治发展已经创造了条件，有可能，甚至更紧迫地，为该群体未得到充分研究的语言进行认真的文献工作。对新的实地工作者如何有效地记录和描述Kuki-Chin语言的指导将加快记录工作，并产生有助于跨语料库比较的描述。在NSF的支持下，Peterson博士将在达特茅斯学院举办为期一天的关于Kuki-Chin语言学问题的研讨会，同时举办第46届汉藏语言和语言学国际会议（http：//sites.dartmouth.edu/icstll46/）。专家们将评估他们对这些语言的主要语法系统的理解，并将讨论编码常见Kuki-Chin语法现象的标准术语。由此产生的论文和建议将被汇编成一卷，旨在作为一个领域的手册，为未来的研究者Kuki-Chin语言，包括成员的新兴学术界在印度和缅甸。整个研讨会对Kuki-Chin语言的投入将有助于社会对他们及其发言者的认识。由此产生的指南将成为教授学习这些语言的重要工具，并将有助于为Kuki-Chin语言社区编写拼写和识字材料。

Approximately fifty Kuki-Chin languages are spoken in the border region of Burma, India, and Bangladesh. Recent years have seen an intensification of research on a small percentage of these languages, which form a part of the Tibeto-Burman language family; considerable work is still needed to document the remaining ones. The study of these languages is at a unique juncture. Political developments in the region have led to conditions where it will be possible, and even more urgent, to engage in serious documentation work for the understudied languages of the group. Thoughtful guidance to new fieldworkers in how to effectively document and describe Kuki-Chin languages would speed up documentation efforts and produce descriptions that lend themselves to cross-corpora comparison. With support from NSF, Dr. Peterson will hold a day-long workshop on issues in Kuki-Chin linguistics at Dartmouth College, in conjunction with the 46th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (http://sites.dartmouth.edu/icstll46/). Specialists will take stock of their understanding of the major grammatical systems of these languages and will discuss standard terminology for coding common Kuki-Chin grammatical phenomena. The resulting papers and recommendations will be assembled in a volume intended to serve as a field manual for future investigators of Kuki-Chin languages, including members of the emerging academic communities in India and Burma. The devotion of an entire workshop to Kuki-Chin languages will contribute to societal awareness of them and their speakers. The resulting guide will become an essential tool for teaching about the study of these languages and will be useful for the development of orthographies and literacy materials for Kuki-Chin language communities.