Preserving and Enhancing Access to the Survey of Zapotec and Chatino Languages

保留和加强对萨波特克语和查蒂诺语言调查的访问

• 批准号: 1263671
• 负责人: Mark Sicoli
• 金额: $ 12.1万
• 依托单位: Georgetown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263671&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preserving; Enhancing; Access; Survey; Zapotec

Zapotec-Chatino is a diverse language family with a 2500-year history involving the earliest writing and State-level social organization in the Western Hemisphere. Currently several Zapotec-Chatino languages have gone extinct only within the last generation and more than half of this family will be lost in the next generation. The work of the Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) project "Preserving and Enhancing Access to the Survey of Zapotec and Chatino Languages" supported by the National Science Foundation will ensure that the extensive media and transcription files of the Zapotec and Chatino Survey are permanently preserved, providing free online dissemination that makes them discoverable and accessible for scholarly and educational purposes. Between 2007 and 2010, the Survey documented the languages spoken in 104 towns of Oaxaca, Mexico. In response to the decline of cultural knowledge through loss of these languages, young Zapotec and Chatino speakers applied a linguistic survey and transcribed the results. Without the work of this DEL project, that documentation will remain beyond access for scholars and community members. This project creates a permanent archive of the numerous Zapotec-Chatino varieties, compiling the largest born-digital dataset of a Native American language family. The Zapotec and Chatino Survey corpus includes over 300,000 recorded and transcribed utterances containing thousands of vocabulary items and hundreds of grammatical patterns. The corpus is applicable to researching multiple levels of linguistic structure with potential for comparative linguistic study, through which we can gain insights into human cognition and into languages and cultures of ancient America. The project will contribute to the professionalization of a young scholar by hosting a postdoctoral position and involve undergraduate students in research. The project will produce materials that can be used for language maintenance efforts in Zapotec-Chatino communities and can be applied in classrooms in the U.S. to broaden American understandings language endangerment.

Zapotec-Chatino是一个多元化的语言家族，拥有2500年的历史，涉及西半球最早的写作和州级社会组织。目前，几种Zapotec-Chatino语言仅在上一代中灭绝了，下一代中有一半以上的家庭将丢失。国家科学基金会支持的记录抗拒语言（DEL）项目“保存和增强对Zapotec和Chatino语言调查的访问”的工作将确保永久保存Zapotec和Chatino调查的广泛媒体和转录文件，从而使它们可以自由地进行在线传播，从而使它们可以发现和访问学术和教育目的。在2007年至2010年之间，该调查记录了墨西哥瓦哈卡市104个城镇所使用的语言。为了响应文化知识的衰落而通过丧失这些语言的衰落，年轻的Zapotec和Chatino演讲者采用了语言调查并转录结果。没有这个DEL项目的工作，该文件将无法获得学者和社区成员的访问。该项目创建了众多Zapotec-Chatino品种的永久档案，并编译了美国原住民语言家族的最大数字数据集。 Zapotec和Chatino调查语料库包括300,000多个记录和转录的话语，其中包含数千种词汇和数百种语法模式。该语料库适用于研究多个语言结构，并具有比较语言研究的潜力，我们可以通过这些语言结构深入了解人类认知以及对古代的语言和文化的见解。该项目将通过主持博士后职位并让本科生参与研究来促进年轻学者的专业化。该项目将生产可用于Zapotec-Chatino社区语言维护工作的材料，并可以在美国的教室中应用，以扩大美国的理解语言危险。