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Alaska Native Language Archive

Alaska Native Language Archive. Gary Holton ANLC E-MELD Workshop August 2002. Alaska Native Language Center. Alaska Native Language Center. Established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages

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Alaska Native Language Archive

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  1. Alaska Native Language Archive Gary HoltonANLC E-MELD WorkshopAugust 2002

  2. Alaska Native Language Center E-MELD August 2002

  3. Alaska Native Language Center • Established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages • Staff includes language teachers, linguists, and language specialists • Archiving is central to both the documentation and pedagogical missions E-MELD August 2002

  4. Alaska Native Languages • Eskimo-Aleut (5) • Athabascan-Eyak-Tlingit (13) • Haida (1) • Tsimshian (1) E-MELD August 2002

  5. Endangerment Status • Numbers of speakers • Central Yup'ik 10,000 • Inupiaq 3100 (+71,500 in Canada and Kalaallisut) • Eyak 1 • Age of youngest speaker • <2 (Siberian Yupik) • >80 (Holikachuk, Deg Xinag, Haida, Eyak ... ) E-MELD August 2002

  6. Documentation Status • comprehensive published dictionaries for 4 of the 20 languages • grammars for 3 languages • dissertations on 5 other languages E-MELD August 2002

  7. Alaska Native Language Archive • Primary linguistic data archive for the 20 Alaska Native languages • Comprehensive -- nearly everything written in or about Alaska Native langs • Primary focus on unpublished manuscripts and field notes • Items include: • print (~10,000 items), audio (~4700 tapes), digital data (??) E-MELD August 2002

  8. Archive Mission • preservation • long-term storage and maintenance • digital archiving of print and audio materials • access • controlled but straighforward access by • community members • educators • linguists E-MELD August 2002

  9. Community-driven • primary users of archive are members of Native language communities • communities also taking a lead in preservation and access projects • Eyak Language Digitization Project • Unangan Tape Archive E-MELD August 2002

  10. Types of linguistic data • field notes • texts • manuscripts • pedagogical materials • lexica • comparative wordlists • etymological wordlists • placenames E-MELD August 2002

  11. Formats • Historically a non-digital (paper and tape) archive, but increasingly have to deal with digital formats • image files (pdf) • raw text files • word processor • database (FoxPro, Access) • audio (wav, aif) E-MELD August 2002

  12. Goals • map archive metadata and expose via OLAC-compliant data provider • done • digitize existing resources • in progress • create framework for archiving new digital data • go E-MELD! E-MELD August 2002

  13. Digital Lexical Data at ANLC • unstructured text files (Eyak, Inupiaq) • structured text files • Lexware (Koyukon) • Shoebox (Tanacross, Holikachuk) • other "standard format" (Alutiiq) • relational databases • Access (Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit Comparative Lexical Database) E-MELD August 2002

  14. Two Examples • Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary • Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit Comparative Lexical Database (AET-CLD) E-MELD August 2002

  15. Koyukon Athabascan Dictionary • Eliza Jones & Jules Jetté, ed. by James Kari • stored as structure text file, formatted using Bob Hsu's Lexware • project began ca. 1979 (1898) • printed dictionary published 2000 • electronic version in progress ... E-MELD August 2002

  16. Athabascan Morphology • almost exclusively prefixing • form of stem varies with TAM • stem best represented by abstract lemma or "root" • lexeme consists of root plus one or more (possibly discontinuous) prefixes E-MELD August 2002

  17. Root Subentry Example Sub-subentry .rt ts'eyh$1 pa ch$w'- tag wind blows ..th (P+pp#)de+0+ts'eyh ex hedeets'eyh eng it is windy (blowing on the area) ...n bet'o deets'eye ...n mek'oodaats'eeye ..th P+pp#(#)de+\+ts'eyh ..th P+pp#(#)de+0+ts'eyh ..th P+e#k'e+de+\+ts'eyh ..th 0+ts'eyh ...an menedaa\ts'eeye ..n,i e\ts'eeyh, -e\ts'eeye' ...n E\ts'eeyh Zo'@ ...n k'ets'e e\ts'eeye ...n e\ts'eeyh yeege' ...n e\ts'eeyh doyeege' ....n e\ts'eebaaye

  18. AET-CLD • Jeff Leer, Giulia Oliverio, & Gary Holton • project begun ca. 1997 • comparative data at level of: • lexeme • morpheme • phoneme • hierarchical • interactive, dynamic database E-MELD August 2002

  19. AET-CLD Structure Cogset Lex Morph Phone E-MELD August 2002

  20. Database structure (portion)

  21. Cogset table

  22. Lex table

  23. Morph table (1)

  24. Morph table (2) ...to obtain a copy of the AET-CLD Access database, please contact gary.holton@uaf.edu

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