Morphophonemics of Ikema Miyakoan
Morphophonemics of Ikema Miyakoan
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池间宫古庵的形态音素学
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10.1163/9789004448568_007
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2021
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Takubo Yukinori
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Epstein;Samuel David;Hisatsugu Kitahara;and T. Daniel Seely;金善美;金善美;金善美;田窪行則;千田俊太郎;千田俊太郎;千田俊太郎;金善美;千田俊太郎;Takubo Yukinori
This paper deals with the morphononemics of Ikema. Ikema is a subdialect of Miyako Ryukyuan and is spoken on Ikema island, in Sarahama on Irabu island, and in Nishihara on Miyako island. The Ryukyuan languages (and Hachijō) are the only languages spoken today that have been proven to be genetically related to Japanese. Proto-Ryukyuan and Proto-Japanese diverged from the same ancestor, Proto-Japonic, about 1500 years ago or earlier. 2 There are five major languages within Ryukyuan: Amami, Okinawa, Miyako, Yaeyama, and Yonaguni. They are mutually unintelligible and UNESCO regards them as different ‘languages’ rather than ‘dialects’ of Ryukyuan. 3 There are many varieties of Miyako. According to Pellard (2009: Chapitre 9), there are three major varieties: Tarama, Ikema-Irabu and the Central Miyako, of which Tarama first diverged from Proto-Miyako, then Ikema-Irabu. Mutual intelligibility among these varieties is quite low. 4 The fluent speakers of Ikema are generally regarded to be in their sixties or older but our recent studies have found that people in their late thirties can1 The data in this paper is based on the fieldwork that I have conducted in Nishihara since 2006. The main consultant has been Mr. Hiroyuki Nakama (born in 1947). I also checked the data with other speakers in the village (Age 70–75). For the actual pronunciation and the discourse data, the readers are referred to the Digital Museum site that I constructed: http://kikigengo. jp/nishihara/doku. php? id= start. Parts of the paper include materials I presented in Takubo (2015; 2018) and Celik and Takubo (2013; 2014). I am grateful to John Kupchik for pointing out the errors in the historical account of the phenomena and to the anonymous reviewer for suggestions for improvement.