摘要
阿侬人是怒族的一个支系,分布在云南省怒江傈僳族自治州中缅边境地区。自20世纪60年代起,我们对这个支系语言开展了长时间的跟踪观察,亲历了阿侬语衰变的全过程。分析这个比较典型的例证,目的是寻找这一语言衰变的外部原因和内部原因,了解其衰变过程中语言结构本身所经历的变化。近20年这里社会和语言变化很大。由于国家扶贫力度的加强,阿侬人物质生活得到了明显改善,基本上解决了温饱,由此部分干部和群众对母语的态度也发生了明显的变化,保护和传承母语意识明显加强。结合以前所做的调查研究,经过前后对比,我们认为阿侬语已经从濒危走向严重濒危,如果没有有效的语言保护措施,在未来10—20年,阿侬语有可能完全失去交际功能,退出历史舞台。
Since the 1960s, we have launched a longitudinal study on the Anong language, spoken by a branch of the Nu ethnic group in Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. As researchers, we have witnessed its whole declining process. This study can serve as an exemplary case, demonstrating the forlorn hope of some endangered ethnic languages in China. Through analyzing its declining details, we not only have a good general understanding of the linguistic and social causes accounting for the changes, but also have seen the structural changes of the language in the process. In this study, we focus on the development occurred to both social milieu and linguistic structures, as well as the changes in native speakers' attitudes towards their mother tongue. The combination of the precious study and the current analysis enables us to obtain an overall picture of the declining process from historical perspective. Based on our observation for over half a century, we conclude that the decline of the Anong language has come to a critical point, and without modus operandi of effective language maintenance, the language is bound to lose its communicative function completely in one or two decades and become a dead language.
出处
《语言战略研究》
2017年第4期17-24,共8页
Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning
关键词
阿侬语
濒危语言
语言衰变
文化自觉
跟踪调查
Anong language
endangered language
language decline
cultural consciousness
follow-up study
