Miyako

General

• Anderson, Mark and Heinrich, Patrick. Language Crisis in the Ryukyus. Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014. https://catalog.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b4660476
  • This book discusses the causes of the Ryukyuan language crisis and the efforts that have been made towards revitalisation.
• Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan in The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim. Oxford, 2007. https://catalog.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b3331181
• Language Loss and Revitalization in the Ryukyu Islands http://apjjf.org/-Patrick-Heinrich/1596/article.html
  • This article discusses language loss and the obstacles faced in revitalisation
• The Ryukyus and the New, But Endangered, Languages of Japan. http://apjjf.org/-Patrick-Heinrich/3138/article.html
  • This article discusses the ramifications of the 2009 UNESCO decision to consider Ryukyuan languages as separate from Japanese.
• http://languagesindanger.eu/book-of-knowledge/list-of-languages/miyako/
  • This page is a brief introduction to Miyako and provides links to other resources.
• https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mvi
  • This is the Ethnologue page for Miyako
• Language documentation when the community is not “in the mood”: Issues in community-centered documentation efforts in Ikema Ryukyuan http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/26125
  • This is a recording of a half-hour long talk on the issues with documentation of the Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan.

Other lists of resources

• http://www.language-archives.org/language/mvi
• http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/miya1259

Grammatical Resources

• http://lingdy.aacore.jp/jp/material/An_introduction_to_Ryukyuan_languages.pdf
  • This paper has detailed descriptions of the Ogami and Ikema dialects of Ryukyu.
• Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan in Parts of speech: Empirical and theoretical advances Philadelphia, 2010. https://catalog.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b3852868
  • This paper is a case study of adjectives in the Hirara dialect of Miyako

Dictionaries

• http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian/language.php?id=455
  • This has a wordlist of about 150
• http://133.13.160.25/rlang/myk/index.html
  • This is a Miyako-Japanese dictionary.