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Introduction to the Site and
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The Goals of the ProjectThe Qiang are an ethnic minority (pop. 198,000) living across five counties in mountainous northwest Sichuan Province, China. Because of their small population and their geographic distribution, their language and culture are in danger of being lost; now only about half of the people of the Qiang nationality still speak the Qiang language. The goal of this project is to make a lasting record of this endangered language and culture, and document the geographically and generationally gradual effect of language contact, by doing a field survey of fifteen different variants of the Qiang language and culture. Extensive lexical, grammatical, narrative, sociolinguistic and cultural information will be recorded, and video-tapes and still photos will be taken of the lifestyle, dress, and other cultural aspects. The linguistic data and images will be made available on this web site, and the data will also be used to make a web-based dialect atlas showing the distribution of various linguistic and cultural features.The work on the Qiang Dialect Atlas Project presented on this Web site was substantially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China [Project No. CityU 1160/02H] |
Introduction to the SiteThere are three parts to this site: the General Dialect Map, the
Feature Distribution Maps, and the comparative information. Comparative phonological and grammatical information is accessible through the "Introduction to the Qiang Language" button on the main page. There are also buttons on the main page for accessing information about Qiang language culture, and for directly accessing the lexical information, the photos and videos, and links to other sites on Tibeto-Burman languages and linguistics. |
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