Documentation and Revitalization of Dunan (Yonaguni-Ryukyuan)

• Project/Area Number: 26884025
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Yamada Masahiro 京都大学, アジア研究教育ユニット, 助教 (10734626)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: 琉球諸語 / 与那国語 / 消滅危機言語 / 言語復興 / 敬語 / 言語学 / 言語の再活性化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project conducted a documentation and a theoretical analysis of the honorific system of Dunan (Yonaguni-Ryukyuan). “Yonaguni Hoogen Club” was launched and became a place for the language documentation training. The members have been working with the researcher up to now and creating a language revitalization contents such as a picture book in local languages, continuing the text documentation.
The part of this project that collaborates with the local people formed a foundation of language revitalization project. The research result in Yonaguni island has been applied to Okinoerabu island, where another Ryukyuan language is spoken, and expanded to a general research project on language revitalization. I have given invited talks at many places such as elementary and high schools and a series of symposiums in Yonaguni and Okinoerabu islands so that the academic research can reach to the local community.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] フランス国立科学研究所(フランス)
• [Journal Article] 琉球沖永良部語ひょーむに（上平川方言）の言語資料 (2016)
  • Author(s): 山田真寛、横山（徳永）晶子
  • Journal Title: 言語記述論集 Volume: 8 Pages: 231-251
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] 第12章 ドゥナン（与那国）語の動詞形態論 (2016)
  • Author(s): 山田真寛
  • Journal Title: 田窪行則、John Whitman、平子達也（編）『琉球諸語と古代日本語―日琉祖語の再建にむけて』 Volume: N/A Pages: 249-279
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 第11章 与那国方言 (2015)
  • Author(s): 山田真寛
  • Journal Title: 小川晋史（編）『琉球のことばの書き方』 Volume: N/A Pages: 269-289
• [Journal Article] Ch.18 Dunan grammar (Yonaguni-Ryukyuan) (2015)
  • Author(s): Yamada, Masahiro, Thomas Pellard, Michinori Shimoji
  • Journal Title: Heinrich, Patrick, Shinsho Miyara and Michinori Shimoji (eds.) "Handbook of Ryukyuan Languages" Volume: N/A Pages: 449-478
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] 消滅危機言語の復興、沖永良部のことば (2016)
  • Author(s): 山田真寛
  • Organizer: 酔庵塾
  • Place of Presentation: 知名町公民館（鹿児島県大島郡）
  • Year and Date: 2016-03-21
  • Invited
• [Presentation] コンテンツ制作・利用を核とした言語復興プロジェクト (2016)
  • Author(s): 山田真寛
  • Organizer: 第8回琉球継承言語会
  • Place of Presentation: 琉球大学（沖縄県中頭郡）
  • Year and Date: 2016-03-19
• [Presentation] 言語学から見た地域固有性 (2016)
  • Author(s): 山田真寛
  • Organizer: 農村計画学会
  • Place of Presentation: 神戸大学（兵庫県神戸市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-02-24
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 琉球与那国語の敬語体系 (2015)
  • Author(s): 山田真寛
  • Organizer: 日本言語学会
  • Place of Presentation: 大東文化大学、東京都板橋区
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-20 – 2015-06-21
• [Presentation] 島民による琉球与那国語の自然談話資料蓄積プロジェクト (2015)
  • Author(s): 山田真寛
  • Organizer: 日本方言研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 甲南大学、兵庫県神戸市
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-22
• [Presentation] 与那国語の再活性化 (2015)
  • Author(s): 山田真寛
  • Organizer: 第七回琉球継承語会
  • Place of Presentation: 沖縄キリスト教学院大学、沖縄県中頭郡
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-07 – 2015-03-08
• [Presentation] Constructing a digital museum with a large-scale archive for endangered languages (2015)
  • Author(s): Yukinori Takubo, Tamaki Motoki, Syntaroo Tida, Shoji Kajita, Masahiro Yamada, Yoshihiko Asao, and Keisuke Yagi
  • Organizer: 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation
  • Place of Presentation: University of Hawai'i at Manoa
  • Year and Date: 2015-02-26 – 2015-03-01
• [Presentation] Honorific System of Dunan (Yonaguni-Ryukyuan) (2014)
  • Author(s): Masahiro Yamada
  • Organizer: CREST International Work-shop on Formal and Computational Semantics
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学、京都府京都市
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-28
• [Book] みちゃぬ ふい (2016)
  • Author(s): 松村雪枝、山田真寛、横山（徳永）晶子、元木環、浅川友里江
  • Total Pages: 50
  • Publisher: 言語復興の港