Documentation of Gutob, An Endangered Munda Language of India

古托布语（Gutob）是印度中部东部奥里萨邦的一种濒危语言。在古托布发现了许多不寻常的建筑，有些可以追溯到古老的南蒙达。例如，名词并入允许将一系列语义角色并入动词。 例如，“我洗手”在古托布语中被表达为“我洗手”，其中“手”被合并到动词中以创建一个新的动词“洗手”。 此外，同一个名词既可以出现在动词中，也可以作为独立名词出现，例如，“我洗手”。斯沃斯莫尔学院的大卫哈里森将与印度学者在这个为期两年的赠款过程中，创造一个全面的科学描述（参考语法，分析口语样本语料库，分析字典）的古托布。 他们将深入分析名词合并和其他类型独特的Gutob结构。由于古托布语在其历史上一直与基因上不相关的语言接触，安德森和哈里森也将调查古托布语通过接触而变化的程度和性质。通过与当地学者的互动和指导，研究人员将为奥里萨邦的进一步语言文献建立基础设施。项目期间收集的所有Gutob音频和视频数据，沿着翻译和翻译，将可从太平洋和区域濒危文化数字资源档案馆免费获取。在线Gutob有声词典将在talkingdictionary.org网站上免费提供。该项目由美国国家科学基金会国际科学和工程办公室共同资助。

Gutob is a seriously endangered and poorly described language of Odisha State in eastern-central India. There are many unusual constructions found in Gutob, some traceable to archaic South Munda. Noun incorporation, for example, allows a range of semantic roles to be incorporated into the verb. For example, 'I wash my hand' is expressed in Gutob as 'I wash-hand' where 'hand' is incorporated into the verb to create a new verb 'wash-hand'. Moreover, the same noun may occur within the verb and also occur as an independent noun; for example, 'I my hand wash-hand'.Gregory Anderson of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages and K. David Harrison of Swarthmore College will work with Indian scholars over the course of this two-year grant to create a comprehensive scientific description (a reference grammar, corpus of analyzed oral language samples, and analytic dictionary) of Gutob. They will analyze in depth noun incorporation and other typologically unique Gutob constructions. Since Gutob has through its history been in contact with genetically unrelated languages, Anderson and Harrison will also investigate the extent and nature of Gutob language change through contact. Through their interaction with and mentoring of local scholars, the researchers will build infrastructure for further language documentation in Odisha State.All Gutob audio and video data, along with transcriptions and translations, collected during the project will be freely accessible from the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures. An online Gutob Talking Dictionary will be freely available at the talkingdictionary.org website.This project is supported by co-funds from the National Science Foundation's International Science and Engineering Office.