| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I extracted linguistic data from 回回館雑字 (huihuiguan zazi), a New Persian-Chinese glossary compiled in Ming China, and Sefer Tokhen Alilot, a literary (prose) work written more than a century ago in Hebrew script by a Bukharan Jew, and analyzed them to identify changes that the vowel systems of Uzbek and Tajik have undergone in the last centuries. I also analyzed the acoustics of (mainly) vowels in present-day Uzbek and Tajik spoken in Bukhara, Tashkent, Angren, and Dushanbe. Several findings emerged from these analyses; in the Tajik vowel chain shift, the raising of Early New Persian long a preceded the fronting of (long) o, and hence the chain shift was likely a push-chain shift; the vowel system of Bukharan bilinguals in the late 19th-century was a six-member vowel system consisting of i, e, a, o, u, and the open-mid back rounded vowel.
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