A Philological Study of the Kyushu and Ryukyu dialects

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The Ryukyu dialects have much in common with the Kyushu dialects, although the archaic properties of the former have always been emphasized. This study aimed at the contrastive and comparative studies into the Ryukyu and Kyushu dialects, both of which have valuable dialectal documents.We conducted the research into the Tsushima dialect, and we have revealed that the language of Kourin-suchi is the Tsushima dialect, based on the comparison with the language of Higurashi-Akutagusa.We pointed out that 1-dan-ka phenomena in verbal conjugation should be studied from the view point of the emergence of γ-stem verbs. The emergence of γ-stem verbs has been observed widely across the Kyushu and Ryukyu dialects.We also pointed out the similarity between the phonological changes w>b, observed in the Yaeyama subdialects of Ryukyuan, on the one hand, and kw>p, observed in Higurashi-Akutagusa, on the other.