A descriptive study of south Miyako-island dialect, in south Ryukyu dialect

说栗岛方言的人只有几十人。他们都60多岁了。人数约为30人。60岁以下的人说标准日语和传统方言的中间方言。在2001和2002财政年度，我们做了两次关于语音特征，语法和单词的调查，并描述了他们。我们听到了70和80岁的男性和女性的讲话。语音特征如下。有5个元音和另一个元音。这是一个带擦音的闭中央不圆唇元音，不仅闭元音，而且开元音都变成了不圆唇元音。有一些特有的辅音。清唇齿擦音[f]。浊唇齿擦音[v]和音节[m]。辅音[v，m]是音节的，这些特征是古宫古方言的特征，在平良市的使用者中是缺失的。在语法上，我们描述了动词和形容词的屈折变化形式，后置位置助词，助动词，可能性的表达。在2002年的秋天，我们用DAT录音带和录像带录制了一段演讲。巫包括栗岛方言的语音特征和语法特征。另外，还记录了栗岛童谣和栗岛人的历史，这些记录在栗岛方言研究中尚属首次，是研究栗岛方言的重要资料。

Native speakers of Kurima island dialect are only several tens of people. They are over 60 years old. The number of the people is about 30. Under 60 years old peoples speak intermediate dialect of standard Japanese and traditional dialect.In fiscal 2001 and 2002 year we made twice investigations about phonetic features, grammar and words and described them.We heard the speach from the age of 70 and 80 years old men and women.The phonetic features are follows.Tere are 5 vovels and another one vowel. It is close central unrounded vowel with fricative.Not only close vowels but open vowel become voiceless. There are characteristic consonants. Voiceless labiodental fricative [f]. Voiced labiodental fricative [v] and syllabic [m]. Consonants [v,m] are syllabic.Those features are old Miyako dialect's features, that is losted in Hirara city speakers.In grammar, we described inflection forms of verb and adjective, and post positional particles, auxiliary verbs, expession of possible. And described the name of house.In autumn of 2002 year we recorded a speech on DAT tapes and video tapes.7 native speakers pronunciations are recorded. Witch includes phonetic features and grammatical features of Kurima island dialect. And we still recorded the Kurima's childrens song and the history of Kurima island peoples.These records are the first time in the study of Kurima island dialect.These records are important data of Kurima island dialect.