Gary Holton ANLC E-MELD Workshop August 2002 Alaska Native Language Archive

E-MELD August 2002 Alaska Native Language Center

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

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

E-MELD August 2002 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20 Alaska Native languages Comprehensive -- nearly everything written in or about Alaska Native langs Primary focus on unpublished manuscripts and field notes Items include: print (~10,000 items), audio (~4700 tapes), digital data (??)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 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 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 Types of linguistic data field notes texts manuscripts pedagogical materials lexica comparative wordlists etymological wordlists placenames

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

E-MELD August 2002 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 (1898) printed dictionary published 2000 electronic version in progress...

E-MELD August 2002 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

.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 k'ets'e e\ts'eeye...n e\ts'eeyh yeege'...n e\ts'eeyh doyeege'....n e\ts'eebaaye Root Subentry Sub-subentry Example

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

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

Database structure (portion)

Cogset table

Lex table

Morph table (1)

Morph table (2)...to obtain a copy of the AET-CLD Access database, please contact