Sociolinguistic studies on endangered Manchu language- A Comparison between Dorbed Mongolian Community language

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520474
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Oita University (2013-2014); Tokyo Metropolitan University (2012)
• Principal Investigator: BAO lianqun 大分大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (40455861)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAZAMA Shinjiro 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究科, 教授 (50243374)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 言語維持 / 言語継承 / 継承言語 / 言語政策 / 言語接触 / 満洲語 / 少数言語 / 満洲語学校教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Project recorded Manchu language vocabulary, grammar and stories in San Jia Zi (The Three Houses, Ilan boo in Manchu) Manchu village of Heilongjiang Province. It also clarified the ,morphological and grammatical simplification appeared in Manchu language as the result of its contact with Mongolian and Chinese. That is to say that when Manchu language had contact with Mongolian and other languages, changes of similar mechanism occurred in Manchu language.
The project also conducted follow up investigations of the Manchu of language learning in Manchu elementary school in San Jia Zi village which will be beneficial to the inheritance of the language. Manchu language has lost the role of "communication", which is an indication of the process an endangered language usually goes through.

Free Research Field

言語学、社会言語学