Linguistic Geographic Research into the Yaeyama Dialects of the Ryukyus

根据田野调查获得的语料库，生成了八重山方言的语言地理地图。通过对这些资料的分析，明确了以下几点：与那国方言与其他八叠山方言相对立；西部伊里奥莫特方言可以被定位为八山方言的下属方言群；石垣方言可归纳为八山方言的一个下属方言群；竹美方言、小滨方言、荒谷方言、羽田方言、黑岛方言和羽田方言都有各自的特点，不能被归为一个方言群。

Based on linguistic corpora obtained through fieldwork, linguistic geographic maps of the Yaeyama dialects were generated. From analysis of these data, the following points were clarified : The Yonaguni dialect stands in opposition to the other Yaeyama dialects ; the western Iriomote dialects can be located as a subordinate dialect group of the Yaeyama dialects ; the Ishigaki dialects can be concluded to be one subordinate dialect group of the Yaeyama dialects ; the dialects of Taketomi, Kohama, Aragusuku, Hatoma, Kuroshima, and Hateruma have individual characteristics which do not permit them to be grouped into one dialect group.