Research on the Ryukyu Mandarin texts

在两年的研究期间，不仅从冲绳主岛的大学和研究所收集了大量的资料，而且从石垣岛和熊岛的博物馆和市政厅也收集了大量的资料。天理大学、京都大学和厚生大学冲绳研究所的图书馆以及长崎市图书馆和博物馆也为我提供了许多必要的资料。在这些丰硕的藏品中，最有价值的发现是对话文本&lt；百兴冠华；，5种不同的副本，这将被证明对我今后的研究活动非常有用。我目前正在整理部分收集的材料，而另一份报告是对薛冠华和>的概述，是第一阶段研究的一部分。我将在适当的时候将我的研究扩展到所有材料，大致按以下顺序；(2)琉球官话文本与长崎、萨摩译员所用教科书的比较研究；(3)语言变迁与当代社会背景；(4)结合古代琉球历史文献对琉球官话文本进行详细的研究。琉球官话文本在日本汉语教育的空白时期发挥了重要的作用，其内容清晰地揭示了清朝时期广大南方地区使用的汉语普通话。与同时期的北京官话相比，这也是一个非常有趣的方面，可以突出文本的语言独特性。通过这些多方面的研究，我希望对琉球普通话文本在中国语文教育史上的定位和地位得出一定的结论。

Throughout the two-year research period, a substantial volume of materials have been collected not only from Universities and Research Institutes of Okinawa main island, but from museums and municipal offices of Ishigakijima and Kumejima as well.The libraries of Tenri University, Kyoto University and Okinawa Research Institute of Hosei Unversity, as well as Nagasaki city library and museum, provided me with many essential materials too.Among all these fruitful collections, the most valuable finding was the conversation text <Baixing guanhua>, in 5 different kinds of copies, which will prove extremely useful for my research activities henceforward.I am at present working on a portion of the collected materials, and the separate report, a recap of <Xue guanhua>, is to show a part of the 1st phase studies.I will in due course extend my studies to all of the materials, roughly in the following order ;(1) Comparative studies on all the texts : difference/similarities/uniqueness in words, locutions, phonetic tones and annotations.(2) Comparative studies between the Ryukyu Mandarin texts and the textbooks used by the interpreters of Nagasaki and Satsuma.(3) Linguistic transition and the contemporary social background.(4) Detailed studies on the texts in conjunction with historical documents of the old Ryukyu.Ryukyu Mandarin texts playd a meaningful role of surviving a vacant period of Chinese education in Japan, and the contents clearly reveal the Mandarin used in the vast southern region during the era of Qing dynasty. This is also a very interesting aspect from a standpoint of bringing the linguistic uniqueness of the texts into focus, in comparison to the Beijing Mandarin of the corresponding period. Through these manifold studies, I wish to reach a certain conclusion as to how and where the Ryukyu Mandarin texts are to be positioned in the history of Chinese language education.