35.2595, Books: Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima: Jarosz (2024)

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Date: 23-Sep-2024
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at brill.com]
Subject: Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima: Jarosz (2024)


Title: Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima
Subtitle: A Minority South Ryukyuan Language of the Miyako Islands
Series Title: Languages of Asia
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Brill
                http://www.brill.com
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/68385

Author: Aleksandra Jarosz
Hardback: ISBN: 978-90-04-68053-1 Pages: 754 Price: U.S. $ 209
Hardback: ISBN: 978-90-04-68053-1 Pages: 754 Price: Europe EURO 189
eBook: ISBN: 978-90-04-68054-8 Pages: 753 Price: U.S. $ 209
eBook: ISBN: 978-90-04-68054-8 Pages: 753 Price: Europe EURO 189
Abstract:

Spoken on Kurima, a miniscule island in the Miyakojima municipality in
Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kurima-Miyako is a South Ryukyuan topolect,
a regional variant of the Miyako language. With most fluent speakers
aged 80 or older and the island’s depopulation progressing, the
topolect of Kurima faces imminent extinction, a reflection of a common
pattern in the Ryukyus, whereupon the vernaculars of small islands and
isolated remote areas have been facing multifold minorization for
decades on the part of the dominant variety/varieties of the area
(Shimoji and Hirara in the case of Kurima), Okinawan, and standard
Japanese. Responding to the urgent task of producing a comprehensive
description while it still has native speakers, the present volume is
the first ever attempt at a systemic presentation of the Kurima
topolect in any language. It also uses comparative evidence from
Ryukyuan and Mainland Japonic languages to provide new proto-language
reconstructions and offer insights into the history of Japonic
languages.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Miyako (mvi)

Language Family(ies): Ryukyuan

Written In: English (eng)



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