The digitization of over 2,700 sound recordings of Native American languages on wax cylinders held at the University of California, Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, using optical scanning techniques developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The University of California, Berkeley, is the repository of an American cultural treasure in over 2,500 early twentieth-century wax cylinder recordings of Native American speech and song. Some are the only known recordings of a language; many are the only known recordings of particular songs or stories; all are invaluable for scholarly research and the broader purposes of cultural and linguistic revitalization. Previous work using mechanical playback methods to transfer the recordings to modern sound media and digitize the result yielded low-quality sound files. This project will apply new technology (developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) to produce optical scans of all wax cylinders in the university’s collection, from which improved audio transfers will be created. At UC Berkeley, the work will involve institutional collaboration among the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the University Library, and the Department of Linguistics; collaboration with Native communities will increase access to the resulting material.

The preparation of resources for Saanich, a severely endangered Salishan language now spoken by only a few elders living on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.  The project would produce the transcription, translation, and analysis of a set of texts and a comprehensive reference grammar for Saanich.

(edited by staff) Saanich is a severely endangered native North American language of the Salishan language family, one that is now spoken as a first language by only a few elders living on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.  During recent work on a dictionary, the project director acquired a set of recordings from the early 1970s of a well-known elder storyteller relating traditional tales, legends, community history, personal history, information about place names, descriptions of hunting and fishing techniques, and some short conversations, all in Saanich. The project proposed here would produce a set of completely analyzed texts from the recordings, forming the basis of a Saanich reference grammar. The project director would work with an award-winning poet, Philip Kevin Paul, grand-nephew of the Saanich elder who made the recordings, to provide a literary and cultural interpretation of the texts that goes beyond simple translation. The material produced by this project would make the traditional knowledge of Saanich elders and technical understanding of the Saanich language available to the Saanich people and to students and scholars of linguistics. It is urgent that this work be done now while there are still native speakers alive and willing to help preserve this important part of their common heritage. Aware of the importance of long-term data preservation, the project director would, as he has since 1978, deposit all of his data, recordings, and field notes in the Pacific Northwest Collection at the University of Washington Libraries.

Production of full grammar-lexicon-texts trilogies on two genetically isolated endangered languages of Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire. Mbre in Côte d'Ivoire and Tiefo-D, one of two Tiefo languages in Burkina Faso, are endangered (less than 50 speakers each). Mbre is an outlier, likely Niger-Congo but not belonging to any recognized family such as Mande, Kwa, or Gur. Tiefo is one of five languages or language pairs in SW Burkina that have been previously classified as Gur, but they too are now being peeled away from Gur into Niger-Congo outlier status.

(edited by staff) We plan to produce full grammar-lexicon-texts trilogies on two genetically isolated endangered languages of Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire, and on one language of the un(der)-described Bozo family in Mali.  Pilot studies have begun on all three.  Mbre in Côte d'Ivoire and Tiefo-D, one of two Tiefo languages in Burkina Faso, are endangered (< 50 speakers each).  Mbre is an outlier, likely Niger-Congo but not belonging to any recognized family such as Mande, Kwa, or Gur. Tiefo is one of five languages or language pairs in SW Burkina that have been previously classified as Gur, but they too are now being peeled away from Gur into Niger-Congo outlier status.  The small Bozo family of Mali (four languages, one of which has many dialects) is largely undescribed.  This sub-project will focus on Jenaama, aka Sorogaama (code: bze).

Creation of a linguistic database for Konkow, a language of northern California with no native speakers remaining, and preparation of a vocabulary, analyzed texts, and grammatical descriptions, as resources for teaching the language to second-language learners.

(edited by staff) Konkow (ISO 639-3 code: mjd), also known as Northwestern Maidu, Concow, or Koyoongk’awi, is an indigenous language of northern California and a member of the Maiduan language family. Konkow no longer has any first-language speakers, but there is a growing body of second-language learners with an increasing amount of fluency, as a result of community revitalization projects. The Konkow language has no published dictionary, no published texts, and there is a general lack of accessible reference material.  While a description of Konkow was undertaken by Russell Ultan for his 1967 dissertation (unpublished), its dense style makes it challenging to interpret, especially for community members untrained in linguistic theory.  This project is a collaboration between an academically trained linguist and a community member with years of experience in Konkow language and culture revitalization.  Its goals are: (1) to create some basic reference materials for the language and (2) to increase access to archival Konkow language materials. The applicant will catalog and digitize a collection of archival material and include it in a searchable, online database, which will be made available as an Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) resource at language-archives.org and at the California Language Archive.  Drawing on the archival materials and Ultan’s analysis, the project will produce a short Konkow vocabulary, two fully analyzed texts, and a series of pedagogically oriented grammatical descriptions.

The digitization, transcription, and transliteration of Vladimir Bogoraz’s handwritten notebooks of Itelmen language-related material.  Published in hard copy and online with an introduction and linguistic commentary, the material would be made freely available and would supplement an Itelmen dictionary currently in development.

(edited by staff) We propose to transcribe, edit, and publish, in hard copy and online, a collection of Itelmen (itl; probably Chukotko-Kamchatkan) texts and related material in the notebooks of Vladimir Bogoraz, held in the archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. The Itelmen texts were originally intended to be published in 1917, under the editorship of Franz Boas, but the Russian revolution disrupted publication plans and the material was afterwards effectively lost to scholarship and to the Itelmen community.  We have located and viewed (copies of) the notebooks.  This past summer, we secured permission to publish them, made an arrangement with an appropriate publisher/web repository, and have assembled a team with the expertise and interest to prepare the material.  In addition to a facsimile and transcription of the 399 notebook pages, the book will include an introduction and linguistic commentary by the project director, who has worked with the Itelmen community since 1993.

Technical enhancements and ingest of additional language resources to the digital repository, Coeur d’Alene Online Language Resource Center, for Coeur d’Alene, an endangered language of the Salish family, spoken in northern Idaho by a few native speakers and an increasing number of second-language learners.  The project would include training for tribal members and others in the development and maintenance of language resources.

Coeur d'Alene (ISO 639-3-crd/Salish USA, henceforth CRD) is a polysynthetic Salish language. Ethnologue classifies CRD as nearly extinct, with a small number of elderly speakers. The Tribe has had an active language revival program for more than twenty years, and there is a vibrant community of 12 learners who have developed fluency and grammatical knowledge of the language. They draw heavily on documentation of CRD, as it is made accessible in a variety of ways - including by the Coeur d'Alene Online Language Resource Center (henceforth COLRC, http://lasrv01.ipfw.edu/COLRC), which was developed and completed under NSF DEL as a collaborative grant (BCS1160394-BCS1160627) in 2012- 2016. The proposed project is to extend the reach of the COLRC to include (1) technical improvements to allow for real-time editing by Tribal Language Programs personnel, to ensure stable and reliable performance, and to include a large number of newly identified resources, resource views customized by user role, and a new section for pedagogical resources developed and (2), In collaboration with the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI), to develop and offer a series of three workshops at Coeur d'Alene Tribal Offices for Coeur d'Alene Tribal members, neighboring Tribes, and interested others to advance their skills in using resources such as the COLRC in language pedagogy, and in the skills needed to take on digital language resource development projects such as the COLRC in their own communities.

The documentation and description of Nadeb, an endangered language spoken in northwest Brazil.  The project would produce an annotated collection of digital recordings in audio and video, a grammatical description, lexicon, and collection of texts, in collaboration with the Nadeb community, as well as a comprehensive reference grammar, a dictionary (Nadeb-English-Portuguese), and a set of pedagogical materials for community use.

This project will undertake the documentation and description of Nadeb, a member of the small Naduhup family (formerly known as Maku), spoken in northwest Brazil.  The principal goals are to produce an annotated collection of digital recordings in audio and video, a grammatical description, lexicon, and collection of texts, in collaboration with the Nadeb community. Documentation will focus on natural discourse and will span a range of genres, with particular emphases on traditional verbal art forms involving song, narrative, and incantation; conversation; and knowledge concerning Nadeb traditional territory. Secondary outcomes will consist of a comprehensive reference grammar, a dictionary (Nadeb-English-Portuguese), and a set of pedagogical materials for community use. Materials will be archived in the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin.

The documentation of Choctaw, a Western Muskogean language spoken primarily in east-central Mississippi by approximately 6,000 people and in southeast Oklahoma by fewer than 500 people. The applicant would produce a dictionary in print and electronic formats, as well as a collection of recorded interviews of speakers representing different generations and community dialects that would be partially transcribed/translated. All materials would be archived in the MCBI tribal archives and at the American Philosophical Society.

This project will document modern Choctaw in eight communities on the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI) reservation, in order to publish a Mississippi Choctaw dictionary, and to increase the collection of Choctaw texts from Mississippi. The project has two language documentation objectives: 1) To create a new dictionary of Choctaw in print and electronic formats, by checking approximately 5,000 Choctaw dictionary entries with highly fluent community members and having them audio record each word and a sample sentence. 2) To audio- and video record 32 hours of conversational interviews between Choctaw speakers in eight MBCI communities. Sixteen hours of the recordings will be selected for transcription/translation in the modern Choctaw orthography. The compilation of video and audio recordings and text transcriptions/translations collected for the project will be archived in two locations at the end of each project year: the tribal archives of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians at the Chahta Immi Cultural Center in Choctaw, Mississippi, and the American Philosophical Society (APS) in Philadelphia.

The documentation through data collection and analysis, and development of grammars, for seven endangered Munda languages, spoken in northeast India and Bangladesh.  All data would be made available online through the Munda Virtual Archive and would be archived at the Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage (RWAAI) at Lund University, Sweden.

(Edited by staff) This project proposes comprehensive documentation of seven Munda languages – Gorum, Gta’, Juang, Kharia, Mundari, Remo, and Santali – spoken in northeast India and Bangladesh. Munda languages constitute the westernmost, and typologically most divergent, subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family.  There are at least twelve Munda languages, spoken in the area of northern India and Bangladesh, ranging in speaker population from those with a few million speakers (Santali) to those with under 10,000 (most languages of southern Odisha).  The structures of Munda languages make them very distinct from their sister languages spoken in Mainland Southeast Asia. Contemporary researchers of the Munda language family acknowledge that we have an incomplete picture of even the basic analytic units of the prosodic and phonological systems of even some of the best documented Munda languages. Even today, the quality of the data available to base generalizations upon is lacking for most Munda languages. Besides providing a fundamental and systematic documentation of these seriously endangered languages, we will use the data we gather to advance typological and historical research on the Munda and Austroasiatic language families. We will develop the Munda Virtual Archive, which will offer access to comparative linguistic data on the seven targeted languages. Data would be archived at the Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Indigenous Heritage (RWAAI) at the University of Lund, Sweden.

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The expansion of a corpus of Lamkang (lmk, South Central Tibet-Burman) texts, constructed from first-person narratives, that document language change related to migration and relocation due to environmental changes.

Workshops and practica on best practices in linguistic field methods at the Institute on Collaborative Language Research, which would be held in June 2024 at Arizona State University and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.

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The preparation of language description tools for Wichí (an indigenous language of South America spoken in Argentina and Bolivia) with focus on the undocumented Central Pilcomayo dialect.

The goal of this project is the documentation of Wichí, an indigenous language of South America spoken in Argentina and Bolivia. The project would produce a dictionary, a reference grammar, and a collection of morphologically analyzed and translated texts for Central Pilcomayo Wichí. It would also establish the range of variation across the very divergent Wichí dialects and produce other online resources for scholarly and educational activities.

Documentation of Edo North languages of Nigeria through linguistic analysis of oral narrative samples that will be transcribed and translated. The project would also prepare a digital archive of the field recordings.

This project will document 15-20 endangered and rapidly fading Edo North (EN) languages spoken in Nigerian villages. For each text, the collaborators will develop interrelated orthographic and interlinear transcriptions, with English translations, that will be disseminated in print and electronic forms. The project will also archive and make accessible the original recordings.

Preparation of a dictionary of Klallam, an endangered Salishan language spoken in Washington state and Vancouver Island, and the archiving of Klallam texts and audio video materials.

Klallam is an American Indian language of the Salishan family spoken on three reservations on Washington's Olympic Peninsula and Vancouver Island in Canada. The aim of this project is the production of the first full dictionary of the Klallam language together with a digital audio and video collection of transcribed and translated speech in various genres. The dictionary database would be built so as to be easily formatted for both print and online versions. It would be designed to be both accessible to Klallam language learners and useful for scholars of language and culture. Products of this project, all Unicode compliant, would include: 1) a digitized archive of over 140 60-to-90-minute audio recordings in Waveform audio format; 2) a comprehensive dictionary of the Klallam language in Extended Markup Language format keyed to a large digital text archive; 3) a ready-to-print formatted version of the dictionary; 4) an on-line, hypertext version of the dictionary; 5) over 200 Klallam texts, digitized, transcribed, translated and analyzed; 6) 20 Klallam language texts recorded in 1992 on VHS video, converted to digital Audio Video Interleave format for archiving; and 7) these 20 video texts subtitled in Klallam and English and converted into interactive language study tools with links to grammar and dictionary entries.

Fieldwork on the grammar, lexicon, and storytelling traditions of the Plains Apache, speakers of an endangered Athabaskan language in Oklahoma. The project would result in a database, which would be used to produce a dictionary and a collection of texts.

This project would produce new material on Plains Apache, a scarcely documented Athabaskan language formerly known as Kiowa-Apache. The original homeland of the Athabaskan family most likely lies in northwestern Canada and Alaska (where the bulk of the languages are spoken today), suggesting a one-time southward migration of the ancestors of the present-day speakers of Plains Apache. When working with a group of closely related languages, it is often possible to reconstruct earlier forms of speech by studying minute differences that have arisen in each of the daughter languages, because each language preserves the material in a slightly different way. Since Plains Apache is the most divergent member of the Apachean branch of Athabaskan, new material on this language variety would play a vital role in reconstructing the prehistory of the Athabaskan-speaking peoples. From another perspective, the speakers of Plains Apache have been in close contact with neighboring Kiowa speakers for well over 100 years, and it would be interesting to assess the degree of influence between these languages. Because the vast majority of the speakers are elderly, this work is urgent. First, I plan to elicit new material on the grammar, lexicon, and storytelling traditions of Plains Apache in order to expand and complete its existing documentation. Second, I would combine the new data with existing archival materials in a database, from which a series of publications would be produced, including a practical dictionary for the tribe, an analytical lexicon with extensive grammatical information, and a collection of narrative texts. Graduate students and a community speaker would be trained in both fieldwork and database construction.

The preparation of a multilingual dictionary of the Nahuatl language.

With years of experience collaborating on the Nahuatl language and managing large grants, the Wired Humanities Project at the University of Oregon and academic teams in Mexico are proposing to create a multilingual, no-cost, Nahuatl lexical database with unparalleled dimensions. The database will include the first-ever monolingual dictionary of Nahuatl with its own online interface. We are choosing Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl for the core dictionary because it will serve the largest number of living Nahuatl speakers, but also because we can enhance it with comparisons that will serve speakers of other endangered dialects of the language. We will also provide Spanish translations that bilingual speakers can offer and access through an additional online interface. To this modern Nahuatl written material we will add Classical examples, extracting attestations from recently published colonial manuscripts and studies of the same, with their Spanish and English translations and commentaries. It is our sincere goal to bridge the gap between Modern and Classical Nahuatl and bolster native speakers' literacy and access to the unparalleled cultural legacy that potentially thousands of manuscripts written in Nahuatl can represent. Finally, this lexical database will have the enhancement of audio files pulled from focus group discussions where university students who are native speakers come together to consider word usage and meanings across dialects and capture vital contextualizing language and ethnographic examples.

Digitization of an archive of linguistic materials that document indigenous languages mainly of Mesoamerica collected between 1930 and 1995. An on-line interface will be developed to provide free access to the materials and associated multimedia resources.

This project proposes to enhance the accessibility of the Microfilm Collection of Manuscripts on Cultural Anthropology (MCMCA) at the University of Chicago. The collection contains an unparalleled corpus of field-based material developed by pre-eminent linguists and linguistic anthropologists from 1930 to 1995. The MCMCA includes approximately 115,000 pages of transcriptions and translations, dictionaries, grammars, concordances, field notes, and other ethnographically rich manuscripts that document approximately 100 indigenous languages belonging to the Mayan, Oto-Manguean, Uto-Aztecan, Mixe-Zoque, Tarascan, Totonacan, Na-Dene, Hokan, Creole, and Carib language families. Some of these languages are extinct; many are endangered; and most are rapidly declining as the number of monolingual speakers diminishes. MCMCA materials would be made more widely accessible by digitizing the microfilm and converting the text with optical character recognition software to enable full-text searches. The metadata for each record in the collection would be enhanced to improve their discoverability by researchers and to link the textual materials to related multimedia resources. The results of this project would support further linguistic analysis.

Creation of a dictionary and introductory grammar of Mescalero Apache, an Athapaskan language spoken in New Mexico, and expansion of a digital archive of recordings, transcriptions, and analyzed examples of Apache language use.

Mescalero Apache, spoken in southern New Mexico, has received scant attention from linguists, is poorly documented, and is rapidly disappearing. Ndé Bizaa, The Mescalero Apache Tribe Language Program will: (1) produce a dictionary and introductory grammar of Mescalero Apache (southern Athapaskan); and (2) expand the Language Archive by recording, transcribing, and analyzing examples of Apache language use. A database will be created to construct the dictionary and grammar. The proposed dictionary will contain approximately twenty thousand lexical items arranged in two sections: a Mescalero Apache to English dictionary and a glossary of English to Mescalero Apache. The introductory grammar will include sections on phonology, morphology, and syntax, with greatest emphasis on morphology. For the academic community, the proposed tools will provide a foundation for further linguistic study of Mescalero Apache and provide data for comparative analyses. Ndé Bizaa's experience, knowledge of linguistic work in other Athapaskan languages, and expertise in computer applications and audio-visual recording, will ensure the quality of intellectual content. For the Mescalero community, these tools will provide materials that the Tribe can use in language-planning activities, especially at the Mescalero Apache School, and provide a foundation for language revitalization.

the creation of a digital edition of an 18th-century French dictionary of Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language formerly spoken in the Midwest. The project would involve transcription, annotation, and translation of the original dictionary and the creation of a searchable online resource.

(edited by staff) The Dictionary of the Miami-Illinois Language: the Inokaatawaakani Project will digitize an unpublished early 18th-century Miami-Illinois bilingual (Early French/Miami-Illinois) dictionary, translate it into modern French and English, and make it accessible via a searchable online interface. Access to this historic document will be of interest to linguists, anthropologists, historians, the general public, and language and cultural educators of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language that was spoken in the area of present-day Illinois, Indiana, and western Ohio, has no first-language speakers remaining. The manuscript codex on which the project is based is attributed to Jean-Baptiste Le Boullenger, who probably compiled it in the 1720s, and is now held by the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. The manuscript consists of a French/Miami-Illinois dictionary and devotional texts in Miami-Illinois. The dictionary occupies 185 leaves, and lists approximately 3,000 words in French, followed by equivalents in Miami-Illinois. Devotional materials include prayers and a catechism, explanations of the Ten Commandments and the symbols of the Apostles, translations of readings for the church year from the Gospels, and a translation of the Book of Genesis. The proposed project is part of current revitalization efforts to teach the heritage language to members of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. A 20-year collaboration between the tribe and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has already created educational materials that are used in tribal community programs, by K-12 public school teachers, tribal and non-tribal student populations at Miami University, and for research supported by the Miami Tribe.

compilation of a comprehensive online dictionary of Saanich, a dialect of Northern Straits Salish spoken in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, together with a digital audio collection of transcribed and translated speech. The dictionary would also be available in print format.

Saanich is the most vital dialect of Northern Straits, a severely endangered and under-documented Salishan language of North America. Although there is great interest among the Saanich people in preserving the language and a growing number of speakers of Saanich as a second language, Saanich is today spoken fluently as a first language by only a small number of elders living on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. I have investigated Salishan linguistics for over 30 years focusing primarily on the languages and dialects of the Straits-sub group. From 1980 to 1991, I conducted field work and published on the Saanich dialect. In 1992, I was asked by the Klallam people to help in their efforts to preserve and revitalize their language. For the past 20 years I have helped them develop language documentation and revitalization material and have just completed a large, comprehensive dictionary of the Klallam language that will be published in 2012. I have now returned to focus on Saanich with the intent of producing a dictionary similar to and exceeding the breadth and depth of the recently finished Klallam dictionary. The primary aim of this project is the production of such a dictionary together with a digital audio collection of transcribed and translated speech. The dictionary database will be built so as to be easily formatted for both print and on-line versions. It will be designed to be both accessible to Saanich language learners and useful to scholars of language and culture. The secondary aim of this project is the linguistic training of a group of Saanich tribal members for their efforts in the preservation and revitalization of their language.

Documentation of the Hill variety of Gta' (Didey), an endangered language of the Munda family spoken in Malkangiri and Koraput Districts, Odisha State, India. The project would produce a grammar, a dictionary, and an annotated text collection in print and electronic formats.

This project proposes a comprehensive documentation in print and electronic media of the phonology, lexicon, and morphosyntax of the Hill variety of Gta' (aka Didey), a highly endangered language of the Munda family spoken in Malkangiri and Koraput Districts, Odisha State, India. The proposed project has three parts: (i) collection, annotation and archiving of video/audio materials representing all available speech genres, (ii) adding to an existing lexical database of Munda languages through the creation of an online Hill Gta' talking dictionary and (iii) training of indigenous community members as well as training/mentoring of two indigenous pre-doctoral assistants. Each area of research builds upon ongoing close collaboration with Indian scholars and native Hill Gta' speakers. Besides providing a fundamental and systematic documentation of this seriously endangered language, we will use the data we gather to advance typological and historical research on the Munda and Austroasiatic language families. We will add our new field data into a searchable comparative multi-media lexicon of Munda languages. Adding parallel data from Hill Gta' to large data sets from Remo and Ho, and smaller sets from Sora, Juray, Kharia, Santali, and Kera Mundari. This lexical database, together with grammatical and phonological databases that are under construction and our searchable corpus of annotated video materials, will serve as the basis for all future linguistic research on this poorly known family of languages.

The documentation of Baga Mandori, a language spoken in the Basse-Côte region of Guinea-Conakry in West Africa, through the compilation of a trilingual dictionary (Baga Mandori-English-French), the development of a small corpus of texts and a grammatical outline, and the training of community members in linguistic documentation techniques.

(edited by staff) This project will deliver the first in-depth linguistic documentation of any of the Baga languages spoken in the Basse-Côte region of Guinea-Conakry, West Africa. Baga Mandori (also Baga Ma(n)duri), the focus of this project, belongs to the Atlantic (Niger-Congo phylum) group of languages and is part of the Mel cluster. Baga Mandori represents one of the two linguistic communities-the other being Baga Sitemu-that still use a Baga variety in intra-communal communication to some degree. The language is, however, under strong pressure by Soso, a Mande language and the dominant lingua franca of the region, and first signs of failing language transmission between generations have been noted. The project will combine linguistic documentation with visual anthropology and community training and participation. Linguistic documentation will be in the form of a trilingual dictionary (Baga Mandori-English-French), an extensive grammatical outline, an orthography, and annotated and transcribed audiovisual material from a variety of linguistic genres. Furthermore, a set of ethnographic documentary films using Baga Mandori as the main language will be produced together with the community and integrated into the linguistic documentation. Lastly, the project aims to train a team of community members from a remote African language community to produce good quality audio recordings and transcription in order to empower them to provide their own documentary materials and thus contribute their own vision to the project.

Documentation of the Ayöök language, spoken in the region of Totontepec (Oaxaca, Mexico), through the expansion of an existing dictionary and development of an online portal of audio and video recordings.

The aim of this project is to comprehensively document Ayöök (MTO), an endangered Mixe-Zoquean language spoken in and around the municipio of Totontepec (Oaxaca, Mexico). The project brings together a fully engaged indigenous community, a linguistic anthropologist who has done extensive fieldwork in Totontepec, and experienced language documentation filmmakers. At the heart of this proposal is the redesign and expansion of a web application, the Ayöök Portal, which links an archive of high quality video with transcribed and translated text and an online lexical database. A key component is the training of communitybased video production and text production teams. Co-PI Levine will train a team of local filmmakers using the methods he developed for the Passamaquoddy (PQM) community. PI Suslak will train a team of local linguists and language consultants to transcribe, translate, and analyze the materials they record. The Ayöök Portal will serve to share these materials and will also make it possible for the PIs to remotely monitor, guide, and collaborate with Totontepec as it continues to document its language after the project formally ends. The ultimate goal of this approach is to transfer resources back to a community that is ready to take responsibility for documenting and reviving its own language.