2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Language Contacts in Nikkei and Okinawan Communities of Bolivia
| Project/Area Number |
21520470
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
KUDO Mayumi 大阪大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (30186415)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SANTO Isao 大阪府立大学, 21世紀科学研究機構, 教授 (10326241)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 言語接触論 / ウチナーヤマトゥグチ / コロニア語 / 移民社会 / エスノグラフィー |
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| Research Abstract |
In the Okinawan immigrant community of Bolivia(the first Okinawan settlement), there has been dynamic language contacts among the Ryukyuan language(the South-Central Okinawan dialect), the Japanese language and the Spanish language. The recorded conversations were put into text according to generation(adult immigrants and child immigrants of the 1st generation, the 2nd generation and the 3rd generation) and they were reported in" Conversation Data Recorded in an Okinawan Community of Bolivia". The data showed us that the forms of" Uchina-yamatu-guchi"(" Okinawan-Yamato-language) such as'-siyotta' and'-wake-sa', are also in use in the communities. Regarding the investigation on language use, the multifaceted questionnaires have shed light on the fact that bilingualism, which also encourages the use of the Japanese language, has been maintained in Bolivia while monolingualism to the Portuguese language has been rapidly proceeded in Brazil.
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