The will support a $275,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences of the University of Guam for the project “Developing CHamoru Language Infrastructure: Goggue Yan Chachalani Mo’na I Fino’-ta (Embrace and Make a Way Forward for Our Language).” This is the first endangered language documentation award granted to the liberal arts college.
东精影业 惭ā苍辞补’蝉 Andrea Berez-Kroeker, an associate professor of linguistics and recognized expert in the area of documenting endangered languages, recently met with University of Guam principal investigators to discuss ways in which she and 东精影业 Mānoa will contribute to the project.
Among the most significant contributions are training the Guam-based team in documentation methods, and preserving the materials in the .
Berez-Kroeker explains, “The CHamoru participants are the language experts, but 东精影业 Mānoa is very happy to help develop skills in language documentation processes, as well as provide a long-term home for the material. Most people will be able to access the language recordings at the University of Guam, but 东精影业 Mānoa will keep an archival version safe for posterity.”
—By Karin Mackenzie