Stephanie Fielding

Stephanie "Morning Fire" Fielding ( Mohegan: Yôpôwi Yoht) masaniya ce a fannin harshe  na Mohegan. Ayyukanta sun mayar da hankali kan tashin matattu da farfado da harshen Mohegan.  A lokacin shekarar ilimi ta 2017-2018, ta kasance mataimakiyar Shugaban makaranta kuma malama a Sashen Nazarin Harsuna a Jami'ar Yale.   Fielding tana rayuwa akan ajiyar Mohegan a kudu maso gabashin Connecticut, a cikin Uncasville. 

 Tarihi da aiki 
Fielding tana da digirin digirgir a fannin ilimin harshe da ilimin ɗan adam daga Jami'ar Connecticut, da kuma Jagoran Kimiyya (Masters of Science) a fannin ilimin harshe daga Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts (MIT).  Ita ce ɗaliba ta farko da ta kammala karatun digiri na biyu na Masters a MIT "da membobin al'ummomin ƴan asalin waɗanda harsunansu sun mutu ko suna mutuwa."  Ƙididdigar Jagoranta, Harshen Harshen Mohegan-Pequot,  ya haɗa da bayanan diary da aka rubuta a cikin Mohegan daga danginta Fidelia Fielding, mai magana na ƙarshe na harshen Mohegan.  Yawancin ayyukan karatun digiri na Fielding sun mayar da hankali kan algorithms na harshe waɗanda ke ba ta damar ɗaukar kalmomin proto-Algonquian da aka karɓa don sake ƙirƙirar ƙamus na Mohegan na gaske. 

A cikin shekarar 2006, Fielding ta buga littafin A Modern Mohegan Dictionary.  Ta kuma ƙirƙiri aikin Harshen Mohegan na kan layi,  wani yanki na tsakiya na ƙoƙarinta na kiyaye harshen kakaninta. Daga cikin wannan aikin, Fielding ta bayyana cewa "maƙasudin shine ƙwarewa," kuma yana ba da hanyoyin haɗi zuwa ƙamus na Mohegan-Turanci, littafin jimla, jagorar lafazin magana, motsa jiki, da zaɓin sauti.  A cikin wata hira da New York Times, Fielding ta ce "Domin harshe ya rayu kuma ya tashi, yana buƙatar mutane suna magana da shi, kuma mutane suyi magana da shi, dole ne a sami al'umma da ke aiki a kai." 

Ta yi aiki "a matsayin malama, marubuciya, edita, zane-zane da mai ba da sanarwar rediyo. Ta kuma yi aiki a cikin kwamitin gudanarwa na cibiyoyin ilimi, kafofin watsa labaru, ƙungiyoyi masu zaman kansu, da kungiyoyin addini."  Tana yawan fassara Turanci zuwa Mohegan don masu magana a bukukuwan gargajiya na Mohegan. 

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