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OverviewSpoken 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aleksandra JaroszPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 29 Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9789004680531ISBN 10: 9004680535 Pages: 575 Publication Date: 25 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAleksandra Jarosz is a Japanologist and Ryukyuanist focusing on historical-comparative linguistics and language documentation. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2016 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Currently she is associate professor at Nikolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Recent publications include Old Japanese post-nasal non-back close vowels in a comparative perspective (2021), Demography, trade and state power: a tripartite model of medieval farming/language dispersals in the Ryukyu Islands (2022, co-authored with Mark Hudson et al.) and The syncretism of passive and potential marking in Japonic seen through modern South Ryukyuan languages (2023). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |