《中文网站：http://phonemica.net》
Phonemica,乡音苑中国方言地图官网，phonemica.net/?name=&sub=&lang=en文化通过一个个故事的讲述乡音苑团队由国内外的志愿者共同组成。
乡音苑使命:从世界各个角落采撷中文故事
乡音苑希望通过讲故事的形式我们坚信当下的中国囊括了数量庞大的方言种类
但由于种种原因他们用普通话与家人聊天、和同事寒暄、听老友叙旧、找校友聚餐。他们的方言将不知不觉随着时间而沉默。
我们无力阻止这样的改变我们正在四处搜集用方言讲的故事
这些录音一方面有助于我们的后代(或许他们已然无法流利地运用方言)听他们的前辈讲述故事。另一方面也有利于语言学家研究中国方言发展和历史
我们从寻找讲故事的人开始。先采访他们随后将采访的录音发布在网上我们也会把故事翻译成英文。
所有这些工作都是由乡音苑的志愿者完成的倘若你也和我们一样对这些小工作有兴趣许多年前在随后的2009和2010年
我们的团队
乡音苑是依靠众多志愿者们实现的。柯祎蓝和司圆直建设并且维护着网站的运行。假如你有任何想说的
Phonemica is a project to record spoken stories in every one of the thousands of varieties of Chinese in order to preserve both stories and language for future generations. We are a team of volunteers working within China and abroad.
Our mission: Bringing the richness of oral Chinese to a wider audience, through the words of natural storytellers, from every corner of the world where Chinese is spoken.
Phonemica is a crowd-sourced project to record spoken stories in every one of the thousands of varieties of Chinese. We believe that each language and dialect is a priceless cultural treasure embedding history, social customs -- the knowledge of a people. The Chinese language today contains thousands of language varieties, with differences as wide as Mandarin and Cantonese, as nuanced as the different words of neighboring villages.
But with more and more people speaking Standard Mandarin with family members, coworkers, friends and schoolmates, many of these languages will disappear.
We cant stop this change, but we want to preserve the cultural heritage. And we need your help. We are collecting stories from grandparents, aunts, neighbours, parents, teachers, friends, and you. They will be transcribed and shared on our site for others to hear.
The recordings will provide a way for future generations to hear the stories of those parents, teachers and friends, told using the language they shared in common. At the same time the recordings will help linguists study the history and development of the Chinese language, allowing us to better understand the rich history of China, with its many periods of mass migration and the spread of cultural developments.
We begin by finding storytellers. We interview themsometimes in the dialect of their home village, sometimes in a variety of standard Mandarinthen put the recording online, transcribe it into Chinese characters, into a Romanized (Latin alphabet) version, and into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Also, we translate each story into English.
All this work is done by Phonemica volunteers, both online and off. If youre interested, please get involved！
Phonemica was launched by Kellen Parker and Steve Hansen in May 2012. Kellen had come up with an outline of Phonemica many years earlier, probably 2008, with the general idea of showcasing dialect differences. As he and Steve worked on it through 2009-10, the idea gradually developed into what you see today.中国方言分布图。
