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Miyako Ryukyuan

Morphological Typology

Miyako is an agglutinative language[1]

Basic Information

There are a number of languages spoken on the Ryukyuan islands (located south of mainland Japan), each of which in turn has multiple dialects. [2] The dialects of Miyako include Ogami, Ikema, and Hirara, and there are at most 10,000-15,000 speakers of these various dialects combined.[1] Ryukyuan languages are written in katakana, and the ISO code for Miyako is mvi.[3]

Availability of Text

I should be able to find a sufficient corpus from various resources available online.[2][4]


Ryukyuan dialect #2

Morphological Typology

Basic Information

Availability of Text

Ainu

Morphological Typology

Most sources obtained from a simple Google search indicate that Ainu is an agglutinative language, and describe it either as synthetic[5] or polysynthetic.[6]

Basic Information

Ainu is the language spoken by the people indigenous to Hokkaido, the northernmost island of present-day Japan. As a result of the Meiji government ban on the use of Ainu in 1869[7] the language has a very small number of speakers, with estimates ranging from 2-15.[8] However, in recent years there have been efforts made to revive the language. Ainu can be written in katakana or in romanji, and the ISO code is ain.[9]

Availability of Text

I am confident that I can find a page's worth of text in Ainu. There is a grammar in McCabe[10], and I have found additional samples online.[11][12]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 https://lipp.ub.lmu.de/article/view/192
  2. 2.0 2.1 http://lingdy.aacore.jp/jp/material/An_introduction_to_Ryukyuan_languages.pdf
  3. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mvi/19
  4. https://catalog.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b3852868/TOC#tabnav
  5. http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~gjaeger/lehre/ws0910/languagesOfTheWorld/morphologicalTypology.pdf
  6. http://cblle.tufs.ac.jp/assets/files/publications/working_papers_02/section/055-072.pdf
  7. Together with the Ainu: History and Culture. (Sapporo: The Foundation for Research and Promotion of Ainu Culture, 2013.)
  8. http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1212
  9. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ain
  10. https://catalog.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/find/Record/.b1759780
  11. http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1212/guide
  12. https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI124799