Product details:
ISBN13: | 9789004680531 |
ISBN10: | 9004680535 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | pages |
Size: | 235x155 mm |
Weight: | 1 g |
Language: | English |
698 |
Category:
Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima
A Minority South Ryukyuan Language of the Miyako Islands
Series:
Languages of Asia;
29;
Publisher: BRILL
Date of Publication: 25 April 2024
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Short description:
A comprehensive descriptive grammar of a moribund insular variety of Miyako-Ryukyuan, rich in noteworthy typological features. Comparative contextualization of the linguistic data provides valuable insights into the history of Japonic languages.
Long description:
Spoken on Kurima, a miniscule island in the Miyakojima municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kurima-Miyako is a South Ryukyuan topolect, a regional variant of the Miyako language. With most fluent speakers aged 80 or older and the island?s depopulation progressing, the topolect of Kurima faces imminent extinction, a reflection of a common pattern in the Ryukyus, whereupon the vernaculars of small islands and isolated remote areas have been facing multifold minorization for decades on the part of the dominant variety/varieties of the area (Shimoji and Hirara in the case of Kurima), Okinawan, and standard Japanese. Responding to the urgent task of producing a comprehensive description while it still has native speakers, the present volume is the first ever attempt at a systemic presentation of the Kurima topolect in any language. It also uses comparative evidence from Ryukyuan and Mainland Japonic languages to provide new proto-language reconstructions and offer insights into the history of Japonic languages.