Research on tape-recorded materials in Turkic languages of the northen Siberia

该项目(1996--1998年)涉及本世纪上半叶俄罗斯和苏联研究人员主要记录的语言材料(来自俄罗斯圣彼得堡普希金博物馆的基金)。俄罗斯或苏联以外的研究人员无法获得这些材料，但在1995年，这些材料被开放。其中大部分都是以磁带的形式重新录制的。我们选取了欧亚大陆北部的一些突厥语材料，试图从语言学的角度对其进行分析。首先，我们考察了所有的材料，包括各种类型的文本，如故事、口语演讲、歌曲等。其中，由于录音设备的原因，许多材料状况不佳，很难对这些文本进行分析。但雅库特语的一些材料正在分析中，我们正在努力出版这些文本。除了这些材料外，还必须有其他材料，既有书面材料，也有录音材料。在这个项目的三年任期内，我们有机会获得关于西伯利亚语言材料的信息，这些材料是用西伯利亚的语言收集或出版的，到目前为止还没有语言学家研究过这些语言材料。例如，俄罗斯科学院圣彼得堡分院用雅库特语言编写的正统传教士文献。在西伯利亚，这些语言中的大多数都是所谓的“濒危语言”，也就是说，其母语者正在急剧减少。通过这一项目，我们认识到了这一语言学领域研究的重要性和紧迫性。

This project (1996-1998) is concerned with the linguistic materials (from the fund of the Pushkin Museum in St. Petersbirg, Russia) mainly recorded by Russian and Soviet researchers in the first half of this centuly. These materials were not available for researchers outside Russia or Soviet Union, but in 1995 these materials were opened. Most of them are re-recorded in form of tape. We selected some materials of Turkic languages in the northern part of Eurasia and tried to analyze them from linguistic point of view. In the first place, we examined all of the materials which include various types of texts as tales, colloquial speech, songs, and so on. Among them many materials were in bad condition on account of tape-record devices and it is very difficult to analyze these texts. But some materials in Yakut language are under analyses and we are working on to publish these texts.Besides these materials, there must be other materials both in written form as well as in tape-recorded form. In the 3 year's term of this project we had a chance to get information about language materials collected or published in languages in Siberia in which none of linguists researched so far. For example, orthodox missionary literature in Yakut language in St. Petersburg branch of Russian Academy of Science. Most of these language in Siberia are so called "endangered languages, " namely whose native speakers are intensively decreasing. Through this project we realized the importance and urgency of the research in this field of linguistics.