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| − | Given my experience with Japanese, my language choices consist of languages that are thought to be relatives. | + | Given my experience with Japanese, my language choices consist of languages that are thought to be relatives. I record here that original texts are suggested to exist in all three of my languages by page 5 of this<ref>http://ling.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/alumni%20senior%20essays/TylerLAuSeniorEssay.pdf</ref> paper. |
==Central Okinawan (沖縄口)== | ==Central Okinawan (沖縄口)== | ||
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| − | Yoniguni hōgen is a Ryukyuan language spoken by a scant few 400 people (as of 2015) on an island east of Taiwan. Contrasted with Amami hōgen, Yoniguni hōgen is a ''southern'' Ryukyuan language. | + | Yoniguni hōgen is a Ryukyuan language spoken by a scant few 400 people (as of 2015) on an island east of Taiwan. Contrasted with Amami hōgen, Yoniguni hōgen is a ''southern'' Ryukyuan language<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonaguni_language</ref>. Additionally, Yoniguni hōgen was originally written using characters/glyphs that were less abstract than traditional ''kanji'' known as Kaidā glyphs<ref> |
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===Morphological typology=== | ===Morphological typology=== | ||
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| + | Again, I will need to make an educated guess that Yoniguni hōgen is agglutinative. | ||
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| + | I would be consulting Hirayama (1988) for this text. | ||
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Revision as of 15:30, 19 January 2017
Given my experience with Japanese, my language choices consist of languages that are thought to be relatives. I record here that original texts are suggested to exist in all three of my languages by page 5 of this[1] paper.
Contents
Central Okinawan (沖縄口)
Background info
Central Okinawan is a Northern Ryukyuan language mostly spoken in the Japanese island of Okinawa. 980,000 speakers exist as of the year 2000, and its ISO code is [ryu]. Because Japanese is the main focus of the standard education system in Japanese, young speakers of Central Okinawan are dwindling[2].
Morphological typology
I was not able to find anything concrete about the morphological typology of Central Okinawan (other than talk pages on wikis arguing about the typologies of various hōgen as dialects vs. languages), but given that its close relative, Japanese, is an agglutinative language[3], it seems very reasonable to categorize Central Okinawan similarly.
Availability of text
The same grammar[4] as Amami hōgen exists for Central Okinawan, including the sample pear story. Additionally, a great deal of example sentences for grammatical points can be found on Wikipedia[5].
Northern Amami hōgen (奄美方言)
Background info
Amami hōgen is spoken in the namesake Amami islands of Japan. As of 2004, only ~12,000 fluent speakers of the language exist, and are mostly elderly. The language has an ISO code of [ryn][6]. As a Ryukyuan language, no standard orthography for Amami hōgen exists[7].
Morphological typology
Like Central Okinawan, Amami hōgen shares an agglutinative nature with Japanese.
Availability of text
A grammar[8] for Amami hōgen exists, including a sample story. Because the language is not normally written, finding text written in Amami hōgen may prove difficult, but using Japanese katakana in order to represent the sounds of Amami hōgen would be trivial.
Yoniguni hōgen (与那国方言)
Background info
Yoniguni hōgen is a Ryukyuan language spoken by a scant few 400 people (as of 2015) on an island east of Taiwan. Contrasted with Amami hōgen, Yoniguni hōgen is a southern Ryukyuan language[9]. Additionally, Yoniguni hōgen was originally written using characters/glyphs that were less abstract than traditional kanji known as Kaidā glyphs[10].
Morphological typology
Again, I will need to make an educated guess that Yoniguni hōgen is agglutinative.
Availability of text
I would be consulting Hirayama (1988) for this text.- ↑ http://ling.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/alumni%20senior%20essays/TylerLAuSeniorEssay.pdf
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawan_language
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_typology#Agglutinative_languages
- ↑ http://lingdy.aacore.jp/jp/material/An_introduction_to_Ryukyuan_languages.pdf
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawan_language#Grammar
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amami_%C5%8Cshima_language
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyuan_languages#Orthography
- ↑ http://lingdy.aacore.jp/jp/material/An_introduction_to_Ryukyuan_languages.pdf
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonaguni_language
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaid%C4%81_glyphs
