广东博罗、增城畲族语言使用情况调查——保护濒危语言的重要途径

本文依据实地访谈和入户问卷调查获得的资料和数据,分析畲族聚居地的语言使用现状、语言使用者的语言态度,进而探讨畲语得以保留的原因。作者认为,畲族聚居地和家庭内部使用本族语是畲语得以保留的客观条件,畲族对母语的深厚感情和语言忠诚,则是不容忽视的主观因素。在我国,少数民族特别是本族语使用人口稀少的民族,通常都对自己的母语有着深厚的感情和语言忠诚,在这种条件下,要保护一种濒危语言,首先它的使用者应当拥有自己的聚居地,同时,这种语言应当成为家庭内部和本族聚居地的主要交际用语。

A Survey to the Language Used by She People in Boluo and Zengcheng of Guangdong

This article analyzed the present situation of language used in the regions where She people live in compact community,their language attitude as well as the reasons why the language is completely protected based on the information and data from field interview and questionnaire.The author argued that the fact that She Language has been used within the compact community and in the family is only the objective condition.What is really matter is that the She people have a deep feeling and their loyalty to their language.In China,minority groups,especially those whose language is spoken by fewer usually have deep feeling and loyalty to their languages.In this case,the condition to protect an endangered language is firstly the language speakers have their compact community,meanwhile,the language must be the main communicative means in their family as well as the compact community.