JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN MICRONESIA

1项目组与各州历史保护办公室和老年人之家合作，在塞班岛、帕劳、波恩佩、库赛、雅普和楚克进行了研究。另一方面，我们的小组调查了关岛大学、夏威夷大学和澳大利亚国立大学关于这一主题的参考书目。这些大学的图书馆拥有比日本更多的书目和书面材料。“Kogakko（公立学校）”的学生通过日本人教授的课程学习日语，并配有当地语言的翻译。这种教学方式并没有帮助他们有效地习得语言。除了在帕劳的科罗尔学习的人外，他们在与日本酋长和来自其他岛屿的语言与他们自己不同的人一起工作时学会了日语。2密克罗尼西亚的老年人仍然保持着相当好的日语能力。他们使用日语与其他岛屿的人进行口头交流，并使用日语和母语的片假名书写。此外，日语往往是同代人的语言，他们的日语也有简化的现象。有各种类型的简化取决于他们的本地语言。例如，“dekiru”在日语中使用最多，而“reru”则附加在Godan动词上。对于借词，本国语的语音系统在接受本国语中的词语时起着过滤器的作用。考虑到帕劳语中借用词的语义场，认为日语的风格也是可以接受的。此外，我们还计划在《大坂大学文学院公报》第38卷上发表一份“报告”。另一份出版物也在计划中。

1 The Project Team has conducted the research at Saipan, Palau, Pohnpei, Kusaie, Yap and Chuuk with cooperation of Historic Preservation Office of each State and Houses of Senior Citizens. On the other hand our team has investigated the bibliography on this subject at the University of Guam, the University of Hawaii and the Australian National University. Libraries of these universities hold more bibliography and written materials than those in Japan.Pupils of "Kogakko (Public School)" learned Japanese language through classes taught by Japanese with interpretation to their vernacular languages. This teaching style did not contribute their effective acquisition of the language. They acquired Japanese as they worked with Japanese chiefs and people from other islands whose languages are different from their own except people studied at Koror, Palau.2 Senior people in Micronesia still remains their ability of Japanese Language in quite good state. They use Japanese when communicating with people from other island orally and in Katakana writing of both Japanese and their mother languages. Besides, Japanese often functions as fellow language of the same generation.Simplification is found in their Japanese. There are various type of simplification depending on their vernacular languages. For example "dekiru" is used most in Yapese Japanese and "reru" is attatched to godan verbs.As for borrow words vernacular languages phonological system functions as filter in accepting the words in their languages. Considering semantic field of the borrow words in Palauan evaluation expressions thinkng styles of Japanese are also accepted.3 Team members are publishing their articles individually. Also we have a plan of publishing a "Report" in "the Bulletin of Faculty of Letters, Osaka University" Vol.38. Another publication are also planning.