{"id":308218,"date":"2019-09-18T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=308218"},"modified":"2019-09-18T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T20:06:36","slug":"uog-wins-grant-to-document-chamoru-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-wins-grant-to-document-chamoru-language\/","title":{"rendered":"UoG wins grant to document CHamoru language"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The University of Guam announced at a press conference on Sept. 12 that it received the\u00a0National Science Foundation\u2019s Documenting Endangered Languages grant to document the CHamoru language. From left,\u00a0Francine Naputi, project coordinator, Kumision i Fino\u2019 CHamoru; David A. Ruskin, co-principal investigator on the grant and assistant professor of linguistics at UOG; Robert A. Underwood, co-principal investigator on the grant and president emeritus of UOG; and Andrea Berez-Kroeker, consultant on the grant, University of Hawaii Kapiolani Language Archive. (UNIVERSITY OF GUAM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Guam will begin work to formally document and create a repository for the CHamoru language through a grant awarded this week to the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences. The Documenting Endangered Languages grant is the first-ever National Science Foundation grant awarded to the liberal arts college and will fund a project titled \u201cDeveloping CHamoru Language Infrastructure:Goggue Yan Chachalani Mo\u2019na I Fino\u2019-ta\u00a0(Embrace and Make a Way Forward for Our Language).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a major step toward documenting key grammatical features of the CHamoru language in a formal way,\u201d said Robert A. Underwood, co-principal investigator of the project and president emeritus of the University of Guam.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The grant will provide $275,000 toward the project, which seeks to provide an in-depth understanding of the underpinnings of the CHamoru language as spoken by remaining first-language CHamoru speakers and to develop a CHamoru cadre of language documenters drawn from university students and language educators in Guam.<\/p>\n

The project will select 10 individuals for whom CHamoru is their first language and who are acknowledged experts in the language. Over the course of three years, these individuals will identify traditional terms and cultural practices related to five specific cultural areas. They will also be asked to produce speech samples to be archived.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The grant will build a local repository at the Micronesian Area Research Center as well as formal linguistic tagging and archiving at the University of Hawaii. The\u00a0Kumision i Fino\u2019 CHamoru\u00a0will be a primary partner, maintaining\u00a0a working repository on the CHamoru language as part of its sponsorship of a Language Revitalization Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project will simultaneously generate new information and collect existing data in a way that is useful for linguists, the CHamoru community, and academics studying endangered languages,\u201d said David Ruskin, an assistant professor of linguistics at the university and co-principal investigator of the project. \u201cThe project\u00a0will create an audio and video snapshot of how people\u00a0actually\u00a0speak and use the CHamoru language today, preserving that knowledge for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The documentation from the project will be accessible to the community through an archive created at the Micronesian Area Research Center at the University of Guam as well as through a YouTube channel, podcast, and social media.\u00a0(PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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