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An investigation of the Miyako - Yaeyama dialects in Okinawa

Research Project

Project/Area Number 12610428
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 国語学
Research InstitutionRyukyuu University (2001)
Chiba University (2000)

Principal Investigator

UCHIMA Chokujin  The Ryukyuu Univ, Education department prof., 教育学部, 教授 (90009704)

Project Period (FY) 2000 – 2001
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
KeywordsIriomote Sonai dialect / Irabu Nagahama dialect / Influences of Standard Japanese / f音 / v音 / 鼻母音 / 無声代現象 / 半無声代現象 / 西表祖納
Research Abstract

My grant application submitted under the title "Miyako and Yaeyama Dialects in Okinawa with a Focus on Sarahama and Sonai Vernaculars in Irabu and Iriomote" was approved for the 2000 and 2001 academic years. According to the research proposal a systematic study of phonetic, conjugational, and particle usages was conducted in the Sonai disctrict of Iriomote Island in 2000. In the following year a similar locational study was envisaged only to find that the Sarahama area was inhabited by the people who originally hailed from Ikema Island. Thereupon the focus of locational study shifted to Nagahama in search of the prototype of the vernacular spoken in Sarahama. The study conducted in two areas of the Okinawan Archipelago targeted people in the seventies or over who have presumably preserved the purer forms of the two vernaculars. After intense phonetic and grammatical investigation of the two dialects, however, even those purer forms of vernaculars manifest unmistakable influences of the standard Japanese in such vowels as o, which was originally supposed to be pronounced u in Nagahama, and e, which was non-existent in the original vernacular. Although the standard Japanese is making a fast inroad into the vernaculars spoken in the two areas of the Okinawan Archipelago (although not limited to only those two areas), as evidenced by the phonetic and lexicographical changes instantiated by investigative subjects in their seventies or over, the tendency is even more salient among the younger generations. This research, by recording and analyzing the dialects spoken in southern islands of the Okinawan Archipelago at one historical conjuncture in a dialogic flow, demonstrates its worth by preserving living vernaculars for eternity. The outcome of the research will be published in a paper in March 2002.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2001 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All Other

All Publications (5 results)

  • [Publications] 内間 直仁: "一体代志向のぬくもりと危うさ-琉球方言を通して-"日本語学. 19巻18号. 17-26 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Uchima chokujin: "Perspectival Identification and Its Danger - Study of Collocation in Ryukyu Dialect -"In "Nihon Gogaku" Meiji Shoin. Vol. 19, No.18. 17-26 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 内間直仁: "一体化志向のぬくもりと危うさ-琉球方言を通して-"日本語学. 19巻18号. 17-26 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 内間直仁: "一体代志向のぬくもりと危うさ-琉球方言を通して-"日本語学. 19巻8号. 17-26 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 内間直仁: "沖縄県国頭郡辺野喜・島尻郡座間味島方言の調査研究"平成9年度〜平成11年度科学研究費補助金(基盤研究(C)(2))研究成果報告書. 1-113 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2000-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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