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

以栗岛语为母语的人只有几十人。他们已经60多岁了。人数大约是30人。60岁以下人群使用标准日语和传统方言的中间方言。2001财政年度和2002财政年度，我们对语音特征、语法和词汇进行了两次调查并进行了描述。我们听到了70岁和80岁男性和80岁女性的语音特征。语音特征如下：5个韵和一个元音。它是带摩擦音的闭合中央不圆润的元音，不仅闭合的元音，而且开放的元音都变得无声。有一些特有的辅音。无声唇齿摩擦音[f]。浊唇音擦音[v]和音节[m]。辅音[v，m]是音节的。这些特征是古老的宫古方言的特征，在平原市的说话者中消失了。在语法上，我们描述了动词和形容词的屈折形式，以及后置位置助词、助动词、可能的表达。2002年秋天，我们在DAT磁带和录像带上录制了一次演讲。记录了7名母语人士的发音。包括栗岛方言的语音特征和语法特征。我们还记录了千岛族儿歌和千岛岛人的历史，这些记录在千岛岛方言研究中是第一次，这些记录是千岛岛方言的重要资料。

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.