Indigenous language database project

土著语言数据库项目

• 批准号: 2301936
• 负责人: Bruce Nevin
• 金额: $ 25.19万
• 依托单位: Endangered Language Fund, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2301936&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Indigenous; language; database; project

For about 12,000 years, numerous small foraging communities lived in equilibrium in a region of what is now the US. Using resources created in this project, linguists are reconstructing their relationships and history, and community members are regaining language and culture, a vital gesture of restorative justice and healing of generational trauma. The project compiles, elucidates, and makes accessible invaluable language resources that are in danger of being lost both to scientists and to the communities. The scientific results of the study contribute significantly to our understanding of human prehistory and to theories of language contact and change, while the broader impacts include training and transfer of data stewardship to community members, advancing US efforts to build relationships with Indigenous communities based on respect for Tribal sovereignty and self-governance.This project delivers a linguistic database to the Indigenous community, with a grammar, dictionary, collection of oral literature (translated, analyzed, and annotated), and a range of materials and processes created by project staff for the people to make each of their homes a 'language nest' in which the language is used and nurtured. For several other languages in the area, it provides the example and explicit instruction for Indigenous language activists and researchers to create a database of the same sort for their respective languages. These databases together enable researchers to reconstruct the linguistic history of the earliest inhabitants of the region with specificity, completeness, and confidence that have until now been impossible. This award is made as part of a funding partnership between the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

大约12，000年来，许多小觅食社区都生活在现在美国的一个地区。使用该项目创建的资源，语言学家正在重建其关系和历史，社区成员正在恢复语言和文化，这是恢复性司法和世代创伤的康复的重要手势。该项目对科学家和社区既迷失了，又汇编，阐明并制造了可访问的宝贵语言资源。这项研究的科学结果对我们对人类史前的理解以及语言接触和变化的理论有很大贡献，而更广泛的影响包括培训和向社区成员转移数据管理和转移，促进了我们促进我们与土著社区建立基于部落主权和自治的土著社区的关系的努力（翻译，分析和注释），以及项目人员为人们创建的一系列材料和过程，以使他们的每个房屋成为使用和护理语言的“语言巢”。对于该地区的其他几种语言，它为土著语言活动家和研究人员提供了一个示例和明确的指示，以为其各自的语言创建相同类型的数据库。这些数据库共同使研究人员能够以特殊性，完整性和信心重建该地区最早影响的语言历史，到目前为止一直是不可能的。该奖项是国家科学基金会与国家科学基金会之间的资助合作伙伴关系的一部分，该奖项是NSF动态语言基础架构 - NEH记录濒危语言计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子的知识和广泛影响来评估Criteria的智力功能和广泛影响。